I read this book because I have read them all and must find eventual absolution, even at the price of extreme boredom, but after the last few books I had few expectations. Well, I should have had NO expectations. This is even worse than Path of Daggers....This book goes on ad nauseum about nothing...Perrin doing nothing, Elayne doing nothing and plotting about nothing, Matt doing at least a little something, and Rand doing a bit, as well as doing his concubines. Unfortunately, to get to anything that is interesting, you have to wade through page after page of useless descriptions and dialogue that seem to be there only to take up space. They don't really matter. After the first painful 200 pages, I started just skipping most of it and just reading parts that seemed pertinent, and even most of them were not....