Final summary: Yeah, okay, this is the other half of the book from 2005. Good to have... but now I want *book five*. This was book four-and-a-half, and spent almost its entire running time playing catchup in situations where I *knew* nothing major could happen because if it had, we would have seen it in book four.
Catching up on Tyrion, yay! Catching up on Daenerys, sort of yay, mostly not because the most interesting thing about her is the dragons and they are Sirs Not Appearing In This Book for 95% of it. Which means we spend a ton of time on Daenerys being *boring* and reactive and not accomplishing much. Also not appearing in this book: Sansa! WHOOOOO! Best Ice And Fire book EVER, just for that! And things actually went less wrong (because, no Sansa) but still went wrong DESPITE no Sansa, so it is remotely possible that my theory that everything bad that happens to anyone in Westeros is directly and personally her fault may need a slight adjustment.
People are still remembering her and thinking about her, though, so that might be why bad things are still happening.
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Date: 2011-07-16 04:44 pm (UTC)Catching up on Tyrion, yay! Catching up on Daenerys, sort of yay, mostly not because the most interesting thing about her is the dragons and they are Sirs Not Appearing In This Book for 95% of it. Which means we spend a ton of time on Daenerys being *boring* and reactive and not accomplishing much. Also not appearing in this book: Sansa! WHOOOOO! Best Ice And Fire book EVER, just for that! And things actually went less wrong (because, no Sansa) but still went wrong DESPITE no Sansa, so it is remotely possible that my theory that everything bad that happens to anyone in Westeros is directly and personally her fault may need a slight adjustment.
People are still remembering her and thinking about her, though, so that might be why bad things are still happening.