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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nakia" data-source="post: 2736613" data-attributes="member: 25747">I finished the book over the weekend as well and share much of the sentiment already expressed.  I also felt that the varrying points of view for the Iron Islands and Dorne were distracting; this was only added to by not naming the chapters after people and using epithets instead.  You know, I am not sure we needed all that Iron Island stuff anyway.  Just give us the Dragon Horn in a prologue and tell us the reavers are up and down the Mander in some other POV's.Some more spoilers and questions below:If Brienne/Pod are Dunk/Egg, does that mean Pod is a Targaryen?I felt there was a lot more going on in the Brienne chapters than I was aware of, precisely because it felt so meandering and occasionally pointless.  I wonder what I missed.Nice to see Sam grow up a bit, in more ways than one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Seems like the big mystery has moved to Oldtown.  What's going on there?  How will that impact Dany and the return of magic and the dragons?What will happen to Loras?When will we see the return of Gregor in undead-invincible form?  That will be scary.  Qyburn creeps me out.</blockquote>