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The Path Of Daggers: Book 8 of the Wheel of Time Hardcover – 29 October 1998

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With The Wheel of Time, Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal. Jordan has created a universe so detailed that elaborate commentaries have developed on the Internet, news groups debate the fates of characters, sites on the World Wide Web attempt to foretell events looming in the promised eighth, ninth and tenth volumes of this series.' New York Times

The Wheel of Time has proved to be the most significant and biggest-selling fantasy series of recent years, its popularity and importance growing with each new novel. The eighth book, THE PATH OF DAGGERS, takes the story on to greater heights.

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Publisher : Orbit (29 October 1998)
Language : English
Hardcover : 608 pages
ISBN-10 : 1857235541
ISBN-13 : 978-1857235548
Dimensions : 17 x 4 x 24 cm

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On very rare occasions, very talented storytellers create worlds that are beyond fantasy; worlds that become realities. Robert Jordan has (Morgan Llwellyn)

A powerful vision of good and evil. (Orson Scott Card)

Epic in every sense. (SUNDAY TIMES)

A great read... the volumed only get richer as they go along. (LOCUS)

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* Book Eight of the SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 bestselling Wheel of Time series.

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Jennifer Berry

Gripping

Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2020

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I have loved every one in this series. Although the one draw back I notice with this and the previous book is it is taking much longer for the plot to progress and he is describing down to the nth degree.
However he does write interesting descriptions so it can be forgiven.
Even now I am wondering what happens in the next book and how various threads of the plot will go.
Amazingly written, though it seems Mr Jordan thinks women scheme and plot from sun up to sundown.

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Tim Bodley

The weakest of an epic series.

Reviewed in Australia on 8 February 2017

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Compared to the first 7 books, this one seemed rushed to me. Rands' character seems to abruptly shift towards the darker aspect covered on the later books.

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Gail Kowald

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 15 June 2015

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Robert Jordan never disappoints. RIP. Wheel of Time just keeps turning

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PT007

Imaginative, unpredictable and amazing read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2020

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This series of books is the best I have read. Each book I have found hard to put down, this one has been no different.

I love the way the characters develop and the detail around each individual group. So many smaller stories in one.

I am binge reading this series, I think I would have found it quite difficult waiting for the next one to be published. I love fantasy and these books will appeal to any teens and adults that like a good fantasy read. I imagine I will have a cup of tea and download the next one.

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Another great book in the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2020

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Some decent progression of the plot in this one, and in the last 10 chapters it really picks up the pace and gets very intriguing. Shorter than the previous couple of entries, it's a nice read for around 2 weeks. The main downside is at times way too lengthy descriptions of every person and location in each chapter, it doesn't necessarily drag but there are certain parts that just don't seem necessary to set the scene.

JRC Salter

Get on with it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2012

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So we have now come to a point in the Wheel of Time series where there are so many characters, so many plot lines, so many things going on that Jordan feels he has to spend literally half the book reintroducing us to everything. Aside from using the Bowl of the winds (finally!) at the beginning, nothing happens for the first half. Rand himself doesn't appear until around 48% of the way through. Then we actually get a large scale battle and it's quite good, but can't match the excitement of Dumai's Well's.

Basically, the whole book is a mess. Like the last couple, there is no clear direction, but unlike any of the others, this feels like it's missing a few pages. We seem to completely skip Rand's first encounter with the Seanchan and move on to the next. We get virtually no insight into how Rand feels about being an actual king which I would have thought would be a major thing considering how Jordan tells us every tiny thing happening inside the characters' heads. Some of the plot is told retrospectively in the thoughts of characters which is a HUGE authorial mistake and goes against the general rule of 'show, don't tell'.

Having said this, however, the good bits are good. Egwene begins to assert her authority over the Hall, Perrin and Faile begin to get along better, Rand uses Callandor for the first time since Shadow Rising, to remarkable and devastating effect. But most of these things could easily have been used in either the Crown of Swords or Winter's Heart. The only reason I can think of for this book to exist would be just to have the cliff hangers and open endings Path of Daggers has. Even though they are good hooks to get you to buy the next book, doesn't mean an entire book should be written as an excuse to write them; the endings would be difficult to fit into Crown of Swords, but would work as a beginning to Winter's Heart. Rand defeating Sammael and becoming King of Illian in Crown of Swords feels like a natural ending, but Jordan could have easily have Rand go against the Seanchan in that book. The two-battle ending worked in Fires of Heaven and could do so here as well. The usage of the Bowl of the Winds could have worked in Crown of Swords too. The rest of Path of Daggers could have acted as the beginning to Winter's Heart.

So, all in all, this, along with Crossroads of Twilight, is one of two books I've read that doesn't need to exist at all. Read only as a means to progress the story and speed read most of it to get it done faster.

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J. Bond

Epic Breadth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2010

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Many rate this, the eight book, in the progression of ther Wheel of Time series as being "in a holding pattern", however, I have found this section of the saga to be much more readable, it comes in just shy of 100 pages less than either volume six or seven, and see's the narrative come along in several of the concurrent story arcs.

However, as ever, Jordon's approach to progressing the story can be somewhat jagged, he will dedicate three solid chapters of over twenty pages a piece to one story arc, and then switch to a different arc without much warning.

This writing style, to the uninitiated, does appear to be "a holding pattern", but the story is anything but. As finally decisive action takes place in the epic that is The Wheel of Time.

John H

Excellent Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2020

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I was looking for a series to get my teeth into after reading Game of Thrones. This series didn't disappoint, as it's a similar format without the gratuitous sex

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