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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Possibly the best one yet, but maybe that's only because it followed the God awful Feast for Crows. I now have one Game of Thrones book left and I've finished the series. I'm reading them for my brother's sake, mostly, who read them all whilst travelling the world and wanted to talk to me about them. I've given them 4 stars, which is maybe a push for a lot of them, I can't say I 'really liked' them all. I'm not sure how I feel about them.
George R.R. Martin once said something like, 'I don't enjoy writing, I enjoy having written.' And funnily enough, that's what reading them is like. Sitting down and reading them is a bit of a chore, I don't have the time of my life reading them and a lot of the time I'm counting the pages down. However, once the book is behind me, I don't mind, and I chat to my brother like a fan.
I enjoy having read.
George R.R. Martin once said something like, 'I don't enjoy writing, I enjoy having written.' And funnily enough, that's what reading them is like. Sitting down and reading them is a bit of a chore, I don't have the time of my life reading them and a lot of the time I'm counting the pages down. However, once the book is behind me, I don't mind, and I chat to my brother like a fan.
I enjoy having read.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Where to begin?
I have been reading the book series in conjunction with the HBO series, reading ahead when the itch to know what has happened to our favourite characters has become too irritating. Perhaps it’s because I am all caught up and thinking about the series that my thinking is drawn to how episodic this particular tome (tomes if you read the split version) is. I do feel, more so in this book than any other in the entire series, that things are being drawn out like an episodic TV show. The writing is as good as ever and when Jon Snow, Tyrion and Arya are the focus I attain immersion in the text.
The first half of the novel (Book 1) suffered most I think from the effects on too many points of view with not moving the plot forward. The second half (Book 2) I felt moved as closer to a resolution, but then left us hanging on the sides of several cliffs.
Still none of my favourite characters died and if that was the only resolution we were going to get I might just let Martin get away with it. I think if I had paid for the books instead of borrowing them from the library I might have felt a bit cheated or perhaps milked. If Martin were to release another book in the series without some more focussed momentum towards a conclusion I might give the series away and just watch the show.
Then again, when Martin writes those characters I love, places them in tightly written chapters I am just as likely to forswear everything I have written above.
Another author and reviewer,Ben Peek , has some interesting things to say the complement the above.
In short my feelings are that A Dance with Dragons was compelling enough to keep me reading, but overall I was left feeling unsatisfied, yearning for some resolution.
I have been reading the book series in conjunction with the HBO series, reading ahead when the itch to know what has happened to our favourite characters has become too irritating. Perhaps it’s because I am all caught up and thinking about the series that my thinking is drawn to how episodic this particular tome (tomes if you read the split version) is. I do feel, more so in this book than any other in the entire series, that things are being drawn out like an episodic TV show. The writing is as good as ever and when Jon Snow, Tyrion and Arya are the focus I attain immersion in the text.
The first half of the novel (Book 1) suffered most I think from the effects on too many points of view with not moving the plot forward. The second half (Book 2) I felt moved as closer to a resolution, but then left us hanging on the sides of several cliffs.
Still none of my favourite characters died and if that was the only resolution we were going to get I might just let Martin get away with it. I think if I had paid for the books instead of borrowing them from the library I might have felt a bit cheated or perhaps milked. If Martin were to release another book in the series without some more focussed momentum towards a conclusion I might give the series away and just watch the show.
Then again, when Martin writes those characters I love, places them in tightly written chapters I am just as likely to forswear everything I have written above.
Another author and reviewer,Ben Peek , has some interesting things to say the complement the above.
In short my feelings are that A Dance with Dragons was compelling enough to keep me reading, but overall I was left feeling unsatisfied, yearning for some resolution.
I finished this months ago (aka 2 years ago rip) but forgot it was on my currently reading ANYWAYS george i love ya but where is the next book ??????!???
Some of the characters are very compelling, and all of it is very well put together.
But it's becoming a chore now.
But it's becoming a chore now.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes