[Review]A Dance With Dragons

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

So, at the point that you're reading the fifth book in the series, you either love it or hate it and continue to read it anyway.

Book 5 of a Song of Ice and Fire is pretty much more of the first four books. With the noted exception that winter may finally be here instead of coming.

The main problem with the series at this point is that it's a world full of so many rich, realistic characters. Which means that there are inevitably going to be entire chapters of reading about someone that you a) dislike immensely b) annoys the living hell out of you or c) bores you to no end. The top of this list for me at this point in the series is Arya. Really, annoyed and bored with her story. I liked her initially. Now she's just a snot nosed brat. I can't even see how her substory and the Many Faced God are contributing the bigger story. Hopefully it will become clear in the next books.

Also, yet another moment of "hey, this character you really love, now they're dead, sorry". But if you don't expect that of Martin by now, then you really aren't paying any attention. Being a writer and knowing how attached you can get to your characters, I actually worry that George R.R. Martin might be a tad bit sociopathic with all the well flushed characters he keeps killing off.

All in all, it's really good. And now I wait and hope that he lives to finish the next two books. Now that winter is finally here. Finally.

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