John

DNF 194
The only good thing I can say about this book is the cover is gorgeous.

This book is slower paced than The Talisman by Stephen King and I loatheeee that book. Absolutely nothing happened after almost 200 pages. Nothing about the politics or culture was very interesting either. Idk how the rating is above 4 stars when most of the people I follow gave it 1-3 stars. I've noticed that I'm not a fan of most Hugo award winning books so I might just stay away from those from now on.

Read this at your own risk

Sooo much more action. We finally see Wildlings and Whitewalkers, however brief it may be. We get a lot more backstory of things that happened before the first book so that helps a lot. It made me happy Tyrion gets some revenge! Also that ending was awesome, why they didn't include that in the show is ludicrous.

Ned Stark is probably the best character in fictional history. If everyone was like him the world would be so much better. This book is full of characters you love, characters you love/hate, and even more characters to despise. Sansa Stark is the worst child ever. Although if it weren't for her actions the story might not have been as interesting

Stephen King shouldn't be allowed to write over 400 pages. Unbelievable how much useless information he throws into books

I knew this was going to be bad but dear god I hated this. I completely zoned out over and over again. The beginning was okay because at least SOMETHING happened but I got about halfway and just decided to look at chapter summaries the rest of the way. Seems like there was a good ending but there was still a long road to get there so I'm out. I'm giving it 2 stars instead of 1 for the beginning and apparently the ending was good. The rest is garbage