A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
Book 7 of the Wheel of Time series.

Since I've picked up the series again at book 5 I think this has the best pacing of the books.  The last two books tended to drag at places as there was a lot of transition and it covered a fair amount of time.  This book however was much more compact, with the characters in each story arch mostly remaining in the same place and dealing with direct issues/conflicts.  Another thing that helped is that the book had a lot of Matt in it and he's currently my favorite character in the series.  Rand by comparison I still enjoy but he's becoming more arrogant and more insufferable.  He needs to be a hard character but hopefully they treat him like Lan who remains likable despite being harder than stone.  Back to the pacing, I know that in order for the macro story to process there's going to have to be some slow parts in the upcoming books but hopefully Jordan & later Sanderson will quickly glaze over some of the non important travelling sequences and stick with their focus on the action like this book.  Great book and I'm still looking forward to continue reading through the series.