Dance with Dragons

After a busy week, I finally got around to finishing reading A Dance with Dragons this weekend.

After all the anticipation, I was a little disappointed. The printed book was over 1000 pages, but not a great deal actually happened. In that way it reminded me a little of Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (maybe it's something about the fifth book in a series of seven?). While the questions left hanging from A Feast for Crows regarding who was dead and who was alive were answered, nothing else was really answered or resolved. Things started to move right at the end of the book, but it seemed to be only so that there could be a new set of cliffhangers. I guess I just have to hope that the next book is better (and doesn't take too long to come out).

The rest of this post is going to be chock full of spoilers so stay away if you haven't read the book.

Awaiting A Dance with Dragons

After almost six years, the wait is nearly over. Well, to be honest my wait has only been about 18 months, and that has been long enough, so I can only imagine what it has been like for those people who've been reading A Song of Ice and Fire from the start. But for all of us, A Dance with Dragons finally comes out on Tuesday.

I re-read the first 4 books a few months ago, but even when I was reading I had trouble keeping track of who everyone was and where they were up to. The fact that A Dance with Dragons runs mostly concurrently with A Feast for Crows is going to make things even more confusing for me. So I'm going to make myself a little cheat sheet. Maybe it will be useful for someone else.

Note: Major spoilers for the first 4 books. Minor spoilers for A Dance with Dragons (mainly with regards to who has POV). Information that I couldn't remember off the top of my head is from A Wiki of Ice and Fire, but any mistakes are mine.