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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Excellent continuation of the series. Last few chapters were gripping.
adventurous
dark
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:
Yes
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It felt like there was much more action and information in this book then the previous one. I know that it’s tough with the amount of characters that the author wants to follow, but he did a better job this time around with focusing and telling the story of many different character characters.
George Martin, what have you done to me?? And what have your done with your series??
I really don't understand what has happened in this series. I absolutely devoured the first three books in A Song A Fire of Ice series. They were fantastic, they were brilliant. The characters were so richly complex, all with varying mixtures of goodness and evil, just like in real life. And with Martin you never knew what would happen to the characters. That very strength of the series, though, I think became part of the problem. By the end of book three, so many characters had been killed off that Martin had to introduce a wave of new characters. These characters seemed to lack the rich character development and back stories that were a signature of the first books. As a result, it was difficult to read and care about these new characters.
The fourth and fifth books also get much more dark and twisted. Martin has always written of a violent world, but the last two volumes of his series became much more sadistic. Had there been this much grotesque violence and brutality at the beginning of the series, I would not have made it through. This is particularly true for the female characters, whose bodies often seem to suffer the worst brutality, humiliation, and shaming. It was too much for me, and by the end of the book feels like the work of a demented mind.
Lastly, Martin uses more POV characters in books 4 and 5 than any other earlier books. The first three volumes had between nine and thirteen POV characters. By the fifth book, there are over 20 POV characters. It is too much. The book is chaotic, disjointed and peripatetic at its best, dark, perverse and profoundly disturbing at its worst.
I really don't understand what has happened in this series. I absolutely devoured the first three books in A Song A Fire of Ice series. They were fantastic, they were brilliant. The characters were so richly complex, all with varying mixtures of goodness and evil, just like in real life. And with Martin you never knew what would happen to the characters. That very strength of the series, though, I think became part of the problem. By the end of book three, so many characters had been killed off that Martin had to introduce a wave of new characters. These characters seemed to lack the rich character development and back stories that were a signature of the first books. As a result, it was difficult to read and care about these new characters.
The fourth and fifth books also get much more dark and twisted. Martin has always written of a violent world, but the last two volumes of his series became much more sadistic. Had there been this much grotesque violence and brutality at the beginning of the series, I would not have made it through. This is particularly true for the female characters, whose bodies often seem to suffer the worst brutality, humiliation, and shaming. It was too much for me, and by the end of the book feels like the work of a demented mind.
Lastly, Martin uses more POV characters in books 4 and 5 than any other earlier books. The first three volumes had between nine and thirteen POV characters. By the fifth book, there are over 20 POV characters. It is too much. The book is chaotic, disjointed and peripatetic at its best, dark, perverse and profoundly disturbing at its worst.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
WOAH WOAH WHAT WHY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH <3
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked the book, like previous it started off a bit slow, also circling back to the time where the 4th book started off, felt almost like doing things over again. It was a long and somewhat slow book, personally it didn’t grab me as much as AFFC did, so I took a bit longer to finish it