Another beautiful brick, in Book Five of the integral of the "Iron Throne!" In preface, the author explains that this fifth volume is contemporary of the fourth, and therefore we are going to find the absent character of the latter and on which the player was entitled to ask a bunch of questions. We thus find pleasure Jon, Daenerys and other Tyrion in walks that lead us away from King's Landing and its court intrigues, except towards the end of the volume where some characters here absent but abundantly present in the four volume ( Cersei, for example) initiate a return on stage. This also means that in this fifth volume, which takes place simultaneously with the fourth, the overall plot does not advance a pet rabbit or very little towards the end that the author called "Epilogue" (in this French version, at least), which does not lack nerve! I read with pleasure the good thousand pages (very dense) and is the first third, which I found most exciting. The central part gave me the impression of a "soft coup", then the last third takes the bull by the beast and left us, once again, our hunger. The sixth volume will probably be a long time coming. I will not sulk my pleasure, but Mr Martin uses and abuses of the same strings for more than two thousand pages: introduce new characters and parallel adventures which bring almost anything to the main plot, bathe the drive with a multitude details about the past of these characters (which are so numerous and sometimes have names so complicated that the mixture briskly if one does not want to resolve to take notes) and even of saute the dead! Read this "Game of Thrones", we realize that the author could continue in this way until one day he forgets to breathe and leaves us all in the hands a work in progress. No wonder the boss at HBO have decided, for the series, to deviate quite significantly from the novel (we already have a foretaste during the third season)! If they had to wait for Mr Martin concludes, viewers have time to yawn with boredom! Overall, it remains a captivating saga, with a big downside to book four and for a small one: after all, was it necessary to do so? By trimming a few kilometers in search of Brienne and piracies of the Greyjoy; sparing a few whacks at Tyrion (how is he still living with it suffers?) and Daenerys few suitors with unpronounceable names; lengthening least Sam's journey of sauce and education Arya by man full of kindness ... there would be enough to save a few pages the reader's patience. It would have offered a four volume dense and exciting, rather than this double volume where the best is experiencing unnecessary drafts.
