This is my third time through the complete WOT series., and I finished re-reading A Crown of Swords today. I enjoyed re-reading it, but every time through I really start getting bogged down in the middle books in the series (6-9). I think there are just so many different storylines happening that it is a bit hard to keep track of them all and keep the main story straight. That said, I still strongly recommend this book and the entire series. I'm not sure what changes in the later books that gets me over this, so I'm going to try to pay more attention this time to see if I can figure it out.