The Path of Daggers

Executive Summary: This is definitely one of the weaker books in the series so far, and there are a large number of pages where it feels like very little happens. I'm still enjoying my reread, but I know that things will only get slower before they finally pick back up again.Audiobook: Doing this book in audio is pretty much a must for me now. I don't think I'd have managed to read it very quickly otherwise. Micheal Kramer and Kate Reading are fantastic as always.Full ReviewThis book should maybe be renamed The Path of Squabbles. There is so much pointless bickering at times, it really bogs part of the book down.There are a few very big plot developments here, one near the beginning, but most of them occur near the end. That leaves a lot of pages in between where I was left wondering what the point of some of these chapters were.And if that's not bad enough, Mat was completely missing. We got a lot of him in the last book, and he seems to like to take time away, much like he did with Perrin in [b:The Fires of Heaven 13895 The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time, #5) Robert Jordan https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327866286s/13895.jpg 588034].My other problem is that I find myself starting to get annoyed by many of the characters. I think my affection for many of them at different parts of the series helps carry me through, but I feel like a lot of this could have been edited down.I'm still enjoying my reread, but I'm dreading the next two books a little bit. Of course the end of this book left me eager to pick up the next one soon, but that's often the case with this series, even in the weakest books.