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12% in, the plot hasn't started yet, everyone is insufferably cool

Would be a way smoother read if the characters didn't keep repeating their motivations and traumas to the reader any chance they could

This one is written quite poorly. Martin's editor seems to have thrown in the towel: scenes upon scenes where nothing of importance happens, information that was already introduced two chapters earlier being reiterated as if to remind the reader, the continued incoherence of Caitlyn's character and the choices she makes, the flawed understanding of how medieval societies worked...