The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan

This book seems to spend most of its time in a holding pattern: Rand's on the edge of going insane, Egwene has almost convinced the Salidar Aes Sedai to turn on Elaida in the White Tower in rebellion, and Elayne and Nynaeve seem to be about to retake the Lion Throne for Elayne. There are so many characters to keep track of (which gets harder because some characters necessarily get shorted in some volumes of the series and then come back hundreds of pages later). I like Egwene and her management of the role of Amyriln Seat the best in this book. Can't wait to get to the Last Battle....but there are still six books to go (the last of which hasn't even been published yet).