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A Dance with Dragons
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January 26, 2016
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March 11, 2016
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Jacqueline

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Wendy
Mar 11, 2011 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
At the end of A Feast for Crows, GRRM excitedly warned readers that it and the subsequent A Dance With Dragons were actually a single book, separated due to length. He promised that missing characters would be present in Dragons and that the stories would catch up and proceed onwards. For this reason, I will often be referring back to Crows.

I feel that separating the books was an unfortunate decision and Dragons suffered for it. I wanted to give this book three stars, but I feel like reading it
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Lisa Kay
★★★½ I can’t believe I’m rating this book the same as AFfC, but it doesn’t deserve four stars, IMHO. Maybe I should lower AFfC to just an even three. Why so low for ADwD?

First: I didn’t like the layout of these two books, but that was GRRM’s decision, not mine. The timeline was too discombobulated with book #4 and book #5 really being one gigantic book – with basically opposing sides presented in each volume. GRRM occasionally threw in another POV character, but it didn’t sustain the oomph of th
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Darcy
Sep 29, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: 2012, audio-book, fantasy
I feel like you can't trust certain things in this series, mostly when people die. I seem to be shocked at certain deaths, get mad at the author, and then they are back and I am not sure how I feel about that. Sometimes they are so changed that death would have been better.

A lot of the characters try so hard to do the right thing, but then are manipulated into doing other things. If they would listen to their first thoughts things would be so much better.

I do love it when the "bad" characters ge
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Susan
Nov 27, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Mogsy
Jul 08, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: epic, fantasy
Jolene
Jul 16, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Haze
Aug 17, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2011-books-read
Jeff
Sep 14, 2011 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Thomas
Jan 31, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Jamika
Apr 03, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sheila
Apr 27, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Lisa
May 17, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
Erin
Sep 30, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jacqueline
Feb 08, 2013 rated it really liked it
Dianne
Mar 05, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kristin
Jun 28, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kathy
Aug 11, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Abhishek
Sep 05, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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