The Path of Daggers, by Robert Jordan

It's so boring I haven't been able to go past the first half. Mr. Jordan is developing a talent for writing a story that does not advance, where nothing happens, where nothing gets resolved. When you finally get the sense that something is happening, or is going to happen, Jordan switches you to a different thread and restarts the excrutiatingly slow ramp up to a vaguely meaningful event. Only if you're really stubborn and desperately need to justify all the time you already invested in the series you can manage to finish this. This may have well been the last one in The Wheel of Time series I ever (kind of) read.