I feel like everyone you love this. It's not strictly true and I feel the people staring at me who have already read the Following books. But it sure feels like it. Even after finishing the book, it left me with this feeling in my forboding good deed tingleling That Just tells you something bad is going to happen.
I think something bad happened to every one of my favorite characters. Every. Single. One. Except for Daenerys, as she did not get a lot of action in this book I think. In fact, she did not do much at all. Considering the sheer amount of characters, though, it's not Surprising fact not a lot happens if you only take one character's timeline into account.
But for the reader, it sure does not feel that way. To me, it felt a little as if a giant family that on fire and you had one bucket of water and had to decide Which fire to quench, knowing everyone else did what going to suffer for your decision.
HOWEVER, I was completely Call bored with Jon Snow's chapters. The danger he has found Beyond the Wall does not seem as pressing to me and I'm not interested in dozens of chapters where he rides around in the wilderness Because that's what it felt like and that's why this book got only 4 stars. There were lots of Jon chapters in comparison to, say, Sansa who I was much more interested in. So yeah. I liked it a lot. But there were little quirks thesis That Just ... put me off a little and hindered my reading speed.