Blurbos Rating (3.9)
The Path of Daggers is a mixed bag from me. Spoiler alert: Where is Mat?! For that matter, where is RAND?!
This book is very heavy on Aes Sedai and politics, and Perrin and Faile, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I do see where the “slog” characterization comes into play. All in all, I got through this one feeling like nothing really happened. I did like this one marginally more than the previous novel though, so there is that.
A notable strength comes in the Rand scenes though, so the book was worth getting through for those.
Highlights
Tenobia would die a maiden. Which meant her uncle Davram would succeed, if she left him alive after this, or else Davram’s heir.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 9 | Location 208-209 2022-08-02 14:30:14
A strip of red cloth was tied around Mendan’s temples and marked with the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. Like the other men who wore that, like the Maidens, he seemed to be waiting for her to make a mistake. Well, they were not the first, and a great way from the most dangerous. Seventy-one years had passed since she had last made a serious mistake.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 15 | Location 294-297 2022-08-02 15:59:23
The Fisher was always worked as a man, a bandage blinding his eyes and one hand pressed to his side, a few drops of blood dripping through his fingers.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 34 | Location 576-577 2022-08-02 16:26:29
Nynaeve knew little more about men, about dealing with one man, than she did herself. Facing them with knives and spears was much easier than loving one. Much easier. How did women manage being married to them?
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 39 | Location 648-649 2022-08-02 17:46:14
Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini’s thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 64 | Location 1009-1010 2022-08-03 23:43:37
Changing anything beyond your immediate vicinity required working over long distances, which meant being able to see a long distance, much easier on the ocean than on land.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 111 | Location 1671-1672 2022-08-09 23:51:21
‘Three things annoy to distraction: a tooth that aches, a shoe that pinches, and a man that chatters.’
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 188 | Location 2790-2790 2022-08-13 22:57:09
Only a fool killed a deer when he knew there was a wounded bear behind his back.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 190 | Location 2819-2819 2022-08-13 22:59:33
Compared to the Seanchan, or the Prophet, or the Whitecloaks, a man trying to raise Manetheren is small turnips.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 196 | Location 2918-2919 2022-08-14 23:48:29
Elyas’ days as a Warder had ended when it was learned he could talk to wolves. Some sisters thought it a mark of the Dark One, and he had had to kill other Warders to get away.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 233 | Location 3450-3451 2022-08-17 00:04:16
A necessary flexibility was not cowardice; those who did not bend for the Great Lord were bent. Or snapped in two.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 283 | Location 4168-4169 2022-08-19 23:37:45
Though anyone who bought a meat pie in the street these days deserved the bellyache she would get.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 284 | Location 4189-4189 2022-08-20 23:37:00
Alanna was another in a line of sisters, from Moiraine to Elaida, who had bungled and worsened what they should have been mending
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 293 | Location 4314-4315 2022-08-21 23:11:53
Fire and ice, and death was coming. But he was steel. He was steel.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 311 | Location 4575-4575 2022-08-23 23:30:47
Rand, wearing different masks, until suddenly one of those false faces was no longer a mask, but him.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 328 | Location 4811-4811 2022-08-25 23:23:28
Perrin and a Tinker, frenziedly hacking their way through brambles with axe and sword, unaware of the cliff that lay just ahead. And the brambles screamed with human voices they did not hear.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 328 | Location 4811-4813 2022-08-25 23:23:38
Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended. . . . She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 328 | Location 4813-4814 2022-08-25 23:23:55
Why is it, when you reason things out logically, a man always does something completely illogical and gains the upper hand?”
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 432 | Location 6279-6280 2022-09-01 05:20:39
Nothing makes Semirhage weep, Lews Therin muttered. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 457 | Location 6624-6625 2022-09-01 21:58:27
Mistrust of Gedwyn and Rochaid was simple sense, but was he coming down with what Nynaeve had called the dreads? A kind of madness, a crippling dark suspicion of everyone and everything?
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 461 | Location 6675-6676 2022-09-01 22:02:37
When you die, people begin to forget, who you were and what you did, or tried to do. Everybody dies eventually, and everybody is forgotten, eventually, but there’s no bloody point dying before your time comes.”
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 463 | Location 6704-6706 2022-09-02 21:22:26
Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 503 | Location 7280-7281 2022-09-04 18:46:53
“As for Darlin, aside from the fact that he’ll marry Caraline, after she’s wrung him out and hung him up to dry, all I can say is that one day he’ll be a king. I saw the crown on his head, a thing with a sword on the front of it, but I don’t know what country it belongs to. And, oh, yes. He’ll die in bed, and she will survive him.”
<The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'>(Jordan, Robert) Highlight on page 571 | Location 8258-8261 2022-09-11 00:55:21