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A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

George R.R. Martin

Start date: October 1, 2011

Finish date: October 31, 2011

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Mar 07, 2014 Andrea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-sorted, fiction-fantasy, 2015-chunkster

I can't believe it took me almost nine months to read this book. Me - the most ASOIAF obsessed person there is! This book was not one of Martin's shining moments. When people say that A Feast for Crows is the weakest book, I beg to differ. This one was too long, too slow to keep up with its predecessors. I understand that Martin wanted to set things up just right before the big showdown, but it took five books since "winter is coming" was first muttered to see a white crow. I just read a thousan ...more

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Jul 20, 2012 Dom rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Now begins my long wait till Book 6. Sigh.

Both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons were harder for me to get through than the previous books. GRRM has introduced so many plots and sub-plots and ADwD just adds more to the mix, seemingly without getting us any closer to the answer of who will sit the Iron Throne in the end (but giving us enough to make some good guesses). Basically, the plot here is moving along veeerrry slowly. The good news is that I do believe AFfC and ADwD are set-ups f ...more

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Feb 01, 2015 Trisha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

This one seemed a lot better than some of the previous ones, maybe because I was reading them back to back and getting a little burned out, who knows. Still a great plotline, so much depth and so many stories to follow. I really enjoyed following everyone's adventures and it wasn't too hard to pick up where I left off. I am also rather shocked by who they killed off! I won't believe it! I can't even wrap my head around the fact that there is STILL no release date for the next book. *sigh*. It is ...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Andreea rated it it was amazing

I feel lost. Also, the entire ASOIAF seems like a chess game between Little Finger and Varys (there's a scene in season 1 with those two in the throne room and the throne between them I reckon). Little Finger is representing the "bad" and all the things he does are for his own good and purpose, while Varys is the "good", doing the things for the realm... kinda. SPOILER! So, yeah, Varys seemed to be doing everything for the realm, keeping the pace but he also seems to be doing things for the Targ ...more

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Mar 18, 2015 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites, 2014, 2015

i can't wait for the next one.

it's been so long since i've enjoyed a series so much; it's been hard to leave this world and move on to the next one. :) ...more

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