Knife of Dreams

Honey in the Tea, by itself, is easily 5 stars. It's one of my favorites in the entire Wheel of Time. I put it amidst up there up with The Road to the Spear.

The Golden Crane has one of the best single moments in the series. Also 5 stars.

The Mat stuff is 4. The Rand stuff is pretty good. So is most of the rest of it, with two unfortunate exceptions: the Perrin and Faile stuff REALLY drags the book down for me, so do the Elayne chapters.

So I guess that if I had to use one word to describe this book it would be “uneven”.

Without Honey in the Tea and The Golden Crane, I'd give it a 3. But those two are so good that I'll give it a 4.