"Kill the boy Within You"

"A Dance With Dragons" is the long awaited fifth volume of the series "Game of Thrones." Readers who have not read the previous 4 volumes go their way, they will not understand anything with the opinion ...

So?

Well here gave me the impression of the second volume of the "Name of the Wind": lots of pages (very well written, as always) for not much in the end. You turn around, except that Jon is becoming more the thickness of a leader of men (which was expected by all the readers I think ...) and that some families seem (permanently? ) withdraw from the game ...

But I am much amused and I have not had really aware of the thickness of the volume, as the stories are multiple (suddenly I doubt we spend more than a few hundred pages with each character ...).

The novel is as black as the previous, with treachery, blood, torture and with a lot of characters passed to death in one way or another (including a villain who haunted the series for a while and finally passes death, oufffff). This volume strengthens the fantastic side of the series, with the magic of increasingly present.

In this volume we thus find:
- Jon Snow:
Far from the lantern which embodies in the eponymous series, it takes on increasingly thick and this is by far his story (which is also the most developed) that I preferred. On one side we advance little, another vital decision is made (although the end of the last chapter leaves consider twists).
As summarized very well Master Aemon early, "Kill the boy Within You [...]. It takes a man to rule. An Aegon, not an Egg. Kill the boy and let the man be born ". We find Jon as Commander of the Night's Watch, isolated, without valid officers at his side, with legs in the King Stannis and his wife (a real bug and a jug I do not know what predominates) Mélisandre (which on occasion can exercise free goodness, yes, it is she who asks one of the Onion Knight's son to stay with her rather than return to war, against the advice of the knight and the main interested- without saying so openly it was only 4 son already dead knight had already suffered enough already) and Wildings.

- Tyrion Lannister:
Alas, for the first time I have taken little pleasure in reading his adventures. Having killed his father in the previous volume, he fled and sits spleen in many chapters. I loved Tyrion quarrelsome, brash, cheeky, loving, violent, Machiavellian etc. But depression Tyrion ... Fortunately he eventually recover, all the Lannister family does not let cut down easily.
Tyrion discovers that Spider afoot from the beginning. That, at least, here's good. There may still be many twists but to put in a box Eunuch felt good.

- Davos, the knight of the Onion:
A handful of chapters devoted to it. It annoyed me already before, that has not changed ...

- Bran:
Grosse advanced that side, inversely proportional to the number of chapters devoted to it. The magic that surrounds it becomes essential.
He will find the three-eyed raven, who do not really like what he imagined ...

- Daenerys:
After Jon, she's taking up the most space in the novel. It becomes increasingly coveted, including some lords of the Seven Kingdoms, who understood that in the game the throne it was a centerpiece. His dragons also evolve much ...

- Theon Greyjoy:
Despite the heinous acts he had performed before, I absolutely do not wish him the fate that fell on him, at the hands of sadistic Ramsey Snow and his father. And I'm not talking about what will happen to the false Arya Stark ...
Which is a shame for Bolton (especially the son) is that they are so so sadistic and crazy for the first time in the series, I did not understand their motives. All the other characters 'black', we understood their motives, which led a psychological finesse that do not have these psychopaths.

- There are also a handful of chapters devoted to peripheral characters like Asha Greyjoy, the Dornish Arianne ...

- Two new characters are introduced: Prince Quentyn (Martell house) and Victarion Greyjoy (really it is not good to be born in this house ..)

- Best of all, we find Arya briefly (too briefly!), Jaime (more furtive passage) and especially Cersei (I thought she was down, but it goes even drool ... only to rise from the ashes in the following books?).