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In this fourth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, the sheer weight of political machinations and the implications of several key deaths in Westeros slowly begin to take their toll on the houses of the kingdom as a more subdued, but nonetheless bloody, war dawns just as it seems the War of the Five Kings is coming to an end.
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"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again."
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It felt like it took me forever to finish this book (and at two months exactly, it sorta did) but I do have a few thoughts to share about this installment in GRRM's series.
First off, way too many Cersei chapters. At 10 chapters -- the most of any character in this particular volume -- she commands most of the story with her endless plotting and blaming of everyone else for her troubles. Need I remind you, m'lady, that you're the one who started this war in the first place? Eh that's neither her ...more
First off, way too many Cersei chapters. At 10 chapters -- the most of any character in this particular volume -- she commands most of the story with her endless plotting and blaming of everyone else for her troubles. Need I remind you, m'lady, that you're the one who started this war in the first place? Eh that's neither her ...more
Once I managed to get past everything that happens in the Iron Islands, it was much more tolerable.
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