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until you get to the present time in book five and FINALLY move forward again. Cutting the books into two by character and geography rather than time was epically stupid, and I can't for the life of me figure out why his publisher even went with that. Book four in particular had soooo much crap chapters about people and issues no one cares about. Trying to crawl through all those chapters about the Ironborn and the Dornish people drove me nuts.

He also glosses over really important issues that people have been biting their nails over waiting to find out what happens, like Brianne is being hung, and books later you find out she suddenly showed up somewhere looking for Jaime for some reason we still don't know. And there the bit with the dragons being locked up and one on the loose that Daenerys refuses to even mention, yet we really get nothing as to how that all came about. Frankly, all this nonsense with her in Meereen is pretty ridiculous. Why all of a sudden has she become the savior of slave cities in the east when all the time she's been doing everything to take the Iron Throne? For the life of me I can't figure out why she suddenly wants to be Queen of Meereen. Nobody gives a crap about Meereen.

I'm really getting the feeling that he's been so absorbed in this whole world he's envisioned that he's forgotten about the main plots of the books. I mean, really.... the first scene from the first book is about these scary white walker creatures that are going to take over the world but nothing seems to be getting accomplished through FIVE books about them even what the hell they are or what their deal is.

Then of course there's also the mystery of Jon Snow's parentage that he's lagged about for so long hardly anyone even remembers it was a huge interesting point way back when. At this point, there's tons more characters and places yet practically nothing has actually moved forward from the very first book. I'm getting damned tired of reading book after book wanting to find out what the hell HAPPENS with all the issues (and you can't even tell anymore what the major issues even are) yet instead of moving those issues forward introduces more characters and yet more issues that also don't go anywhere and especially some that as soon as he brings them in (like the Ironborn) you already KNOW aren't going to go anywhere. I mean, really.... who didn't know that the whole Ironborn take over of the north was going to fall on its face immediately? Who didn't know that Euron and Victarion going east to Daenarys and swiping her dragons isn't going to work out for them? And just HOW MANY women with the name "Jeyne" can he possibly throw in the mix??? For heaven's sake, there has to be at least five different "Jeyne's" by now. I can see why the show changed Robb's wife's name from "Jeyne" to "Talissa". At this point, there are just WAY too many characters and issues to keep track of and none of them are moving forward. The next book had better start bringing stuff together and moving forward or people will get disillusioned and downright lost among all this STUFF.

Ok, I'll exhale now. LOL!