Now the winter may come and cover the books with snow,

because the 5th installment of the saga takes place but then so much that I was finally relieved to have reached the end. Sure you will find in A Dance With Dragons again plenty of intrigue, secrets and conspiracies fray, but this one meets so many characters with similar names that I temporarily was in danger of losing track. Although I am of the view that the reader needs to make itself already to be able to assign all individuals properly, but here it was simply not necessary, since they are often lost in unimportant subplots.

It's not that I did not like the 5th band, after all, I've read it to the end, but I often had the impression that George RR Martin himself has lost the desire to his hero and he does not care, what will become of them. Of course there were also bright spots during reading. Some chapters were already written thrilling. I also had fun to let my imagination run wild and to puzzle, to which all would amount. The solutions to some secrets I have spun together already and would like to know how right I'm so. Nevertheless outweighs the disappointment of the book, I could not help myself of the impression that here side by side should be flayed. Perhaps it was so that part were 4 and 5 but planned as a book, but this then divided and were filled with chapters. Otherwise I can not explain the rise and fall of tension and boredom.

The tried and true principle to ignite a blast quite at the end of the book, has been respected here again, but this has me though unprepared then not taken up into the heart. Although must again one of my popular figure to believe it, but who knows, who knows what will happen again because even for enchantment to give the action again a surprising turn, which would then no longer a surprise for me. Some whets off precisely.

The game with the characters exaggerate the author in my opinion in the 5th book something. I liked it so far actually pretty good, that was often not predictable, as a protagonist would behave. There was no white and black but gray. That made the actors human and sympathetic - perhaps too sympathetic. Is Tyrion been too much loved by the audience? Was not intended for him or bored the author this sympathy wave, swam on the Tyrion? Because here in the 5th band, he may not show at its best. He nags, fusses, lost in self-pity. Where is the charm remained, the wit, the cunning? Too bad that Tyrion was not allowed to remain Tyrion.

When I started with A Dance With Dragons, I still hoped that George RR Martin would hurry up with the sequel, so the wait was not so long. Well, it can take a little time to calm, maybe make a few cuts, some constantly emphasize repetitive italicized sentences and once again present a book as "A Storm of Swords".