Dance with Dragons
Jul. 25th, 2011 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackRandom thoughts:
* Gah. It's not enough that he's constantly killing off nice characters, now he's bringing atrcoius ones back to life!
* I'm definitely getting numb to character deaths. It doesn't quite have the problem many books have of not making it convincing, but I'm past the point where I feel sad when a character dies, and I just feel "oh"
* In general, I enjoyed it a lot. It was gripping all the way through. Some things felt a bit unsatisfying, but in general, it was worth waiting for :)
* The plot does make notable progress. We don't get a lot of things we might like (even some things I thought we might have at the start of the book, like useful dragons) but stuff is moved along.
* Gah. Poor Kevan. So much for anyone putting together anything from the shattered pieces of the realm unless Dany gets back, pretty much.
* And Varys. What he says here seems to badly undermine how he came across in the earlier books, where he seemed genuinely devoted to a best compromise in a bad situation. Does this mean he was lying all along, or that Martin retroactively fiddled stuff?
* So finally, finally get _some_ interaction with the white walkers. But Martin will have to hustle on if anyone is actually going to _fight_ them in the last two-ish books.
* Oh, look, Ramsay Bolton. Congratulations on creating a villain even more repugnant than everyone else we've already seen.
* No clue whether young Griff really is who he thinks he is. I guess from an egalitarian standpoint it really doesn't matter who his genetic parents are, but from a dragon-riding perspective it may do.
* Which bit genuinely made me shiver? Despite everything else, only the moment at the end when Kevan sees the white Raven and winter is officially here.
* Gah. It's not enough that he's constantly killing off nice characters, now he's bringing atrcoius ones back to life!
* I'm definitely getting numb to character deaths. It doesn't quite have the problem many books have of not making it convincing, but I'm past the point where I feel sad when a character dies, and I just feel "oh"
* In general, I enjoyed it a lot. It was gripping all the way through. Some things felt a bit unsatisfying, but in general, it was worth waiting for :)
* The plot does make notable progress. We don't get a lot of things we might like (even some things I thought we might have at the start of the book, like useful dragons) but stuff is moved along.
* Gah. Poor Kevan. So much for anyone putting together anything from the shattered pieces of the realm unless Dany gets back, pretty much.
* And Varys. What he says here seems to badly undermine how he came across in the earlier books, where he seemed genuinely devoted to a best compromise in a bad situation. Does this mean he was lying all along, or that Martin retroactively fiddled stuff?
* So finally, finally get _some_ interaction with the white walkers. But Martin will have to hustle on if anyone is actually going to _fight_ them in the last two-ish books.
* Oh, look, Ramsay Bolton. Congratulations on creating a villain even more repugnant than everyone else we've already seen.
* No clue whether young Griff really is who he thinks he is. I guess from an egalitarian standpoint it really doesn't matter who his genetic parents are, but from a dragon-riding perspective it may do.
* Which bit genuinely made me shiver? Despite everything else, only the moment at the end when Kevan sees the white Raven and winter is officially here.