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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
I know this is practically blasphemy, but I don't really care about Jon or Dany, and I love Cersei, so I thought this book was pretty great.
This is the first time I've ever rated/reviewed a book before I had completed the read. But this one has become the most difficult of the series to get through. Martin already makes us push through a lot of chaff to reach the good stuff but this one has been worse than the rest. Not only that, the character I find the most interesting hasn't even appeared yet. And being halfway through, I don't expect it. Hopefully in the next one. Yes, I'm going to finish the series. I'm on book 4 of 7. For better or worse, I want to see what happens. Another aspect of these books continuing to be a struggle is that I'm noticing new...'facets?' of the story that make me wonder if the author has a dark fascination with more than just the brutality of the middle ages. It's disturbing, to say the least. Oh well, onward and upward.
This is the first one I bought new. I'm not sure why, other than just impatience, but I'm going to find used copies for the rest.
Yeah, I'm in no hurry to seek out the next. I don't think Martin likes his readers.
This is the first one I bought new. I'm not sure why, other than just impatience, but I'm going to find used copies for the rest.
Yeah, I'm in no hurry to seek out the next. I don't think Martin likes his readers.
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-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
idk why i’m doing this to myself—it’s not that it’s bad but i’m not resonating with it :/ sunk cost fallacy etc etc but i’m still going to read the next one
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2.25/5
I'm going to be harsh, because I just don't understand.
How do you go from A Storm of Swords (best book in the series so far) to this immediately after?
How GRRM thought we'd want the multiple new character POVs like 'The Kracken's daughter', 'The Soiled Knight', 'The Reaver', etc, or less desirable characters like Sansa (& others) OVER characters like Jon forkin Snow and Danerys... Why get rid of the POVs of beloved characters we've read through up until this book? The new POVs feel out-of-place and are just not interesting, especially with the absence of the series main characters.
Not to mention the whole lot of uneventful nothing that happened for at least half of the book.
I think I mentioned something similar in past reviews, but it's scaled to a new level in this book, so:
It's one thing to have graphic sex scenes for entertainment or r*pe scenes that are trying to show the evil of the characters/times, but it's quite another to have a character have nightmares that her hated brother will disturbingly bite her breast off in effort to assault and hurt her. Just why. This didn't serve any functional or good purpose.
Jaime's inner conflicts were by far the most interesting, and occasionally Brienne & Arya's, but not nearly enough to carry the rest of the book & its misguided flaws.
I'm going to be harsh, because I just don't understand.
How do you go from A Storm of Swords (best book in the series so far) to this immediately after?
How GRRM thought we'd want the multiple new character POVs like 'The Kracken's daughter', 'The Soiled Knight', 'The Reaver', etc, or less desirable characters like Sansa (& others) OVER characters like Jon forkin Snow and Danerys... Why get rid of the POVs of beloved characters we've read through up until this book? The new POVs feel out-of-place and are just not interesting, especially with the absence of the series main characters.
Not to mention the whole lot of uneventful nothing that happened for at least half of the book.
I think I mentioned something similar in past reviews, but it's scaled to a new level in this book, so:
It's one thing to have graphic sex scenes for entertainment or r*pe scenes that are trying to show the evil of the characters/times, but it's quite another to have a character have nightmares that her hated brother will disturbingly bite her breast off in effort to assault and hurt her. Just why. This didn't serve any functional or good purpose.
Jaime's inner conflicts were by far the most interesting, and occasionally Brienne & Arya's, but not nearly enough to carry the rest of the book & its misguided flaws.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense