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

Jun 24, 2011 Lisa Kay rated it liked it

Shelves: genre-fantasy, epic, characters-twins, authors-r, series-s, authors-m, buddy-read, reviewed-by-me, bom-nbrc, m-ipod-touch

★★★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 ...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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Jun 25, 2011 Valerie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2011

Seriously, I loved this. Haters gonna hate.

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Apr 30, 2012 Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: not-manga, life-lessons, high-fantasy, reviewed, 2012, title-d

Do I really have to wait for the next one? Mr. Martin please keep your health. How could you just leave it hanging like that? I'll wait patiently, sir. ...more

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