After finishing the Long Price Quartet series I was keen to keep going with Mr Abrahams. So kept straight into Dagger and Coin. 
 I have given this story only 3 stars, which feels a bit tough, but at the end of the day, that is one of the problems of going from book 3 in one series to book 1 in another from the same author. 
 In The Dragons Path Abrahams uses the time and pages to introduce the story and the characters. There is nothing in the story that holds surprises and the characters develop in a very predictable way. There is no magic. So.......... It is a builder. I remember back when reading First Law by Abercrombie, the first book was the same, laid the ground work of the story and the characters and oh didn't they go on to bigger and better things! This is the same, whilst we have no magic to work with, we do know there is a big ass giant spider that has priests that can tell when people are lying and she/it has intentions of destroying the world. I think. This is all hinted at and about to break loose in book 2 I would imagine. 
 There are 4 or 5 main characters that are developing well. Abrahams has the ability to create a good size cast of characters that you pigeon hole quickly into good guy/bad guy and then as the story grows you realise that the good guy has some pretty bad traits and the bad guy only seems bad because of the view we have. As we learn more, he isn't really bad, but fighting for his families survival. A little bit like freedom fighter/terrorist perception. 
 There is one character that threatens to be a pearl. He reminds me strongly of a young Glokta from the First Law series and I cannot wait to see him develop in book two as I have no idea what is capable of. 
 Definitely leaping into book two soon. Like today, like now!