A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

May 05, 2012 The Flooze rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, vanquished_2013

Shame, shame, and hot meat pies.

There’s a scene in A Dance with Dragons that harmonizes declarations of disgrace with the strident cries of a food peddler hawking his suspect meats.

It makes for a neat summary of this volume.

The meat pies first. Martin’s fascination with food is well known. It’s spawned a mess of cookbooks and plenty of derision from fans more interested in plot points than endless feasts. But as the series plods along, the fixation on meals seems more significant than an exten ...more

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Dec 08, 2008 Laura Lulu rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, epic, chubby-chunkster, dragons

Holy crap. Man, do I love this series. A review is pretty impossible, because there is just so much to talk about, but basically anything I write will be spoilers for those who haven't started this series yet, or even those who have read the series, but just haven't gotten to this book yet.

And for those of you who haven't started this series, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? O.M.G. is it awesome. Are you afraid it will be another 6 years until GRRM gets the 6th book in our grubby little fingers? Are ...more

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Apr 02, 2015 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, library-has-a-copy, fantasy-science-fiction

Boy oh boy, what a book this was! I already knew about Jon's death and Cersei's walk of shame because of the media fervor surrounding those two events, but I was largely in the dark about all the other plot lines and I'm glad I was. This book had so many twists and turns and some great surprises. Such as (view spoiler) Even though those cliffhangers are the definition ...more

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Jul 12, 2011 Jesslyn rated it really liked it

Shelves: z2011-kindle-reads, reviewed, cat-epic-fantasy, cat-series-ongoing

Warning! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

This book was a mixed bag for me. Partly because the long wait probably made me hyper critical, and also because I think that one of my favorite characters is dead. And also because things I wanted to happen did and....you get my drift.

All in all, I was pissed, excited, disgusted all in turn so I guess GRRM did his job. I will say that at the beginning of the book I was wondering when things would start happening--be careful what you wished for cause I got a few thi ...more

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