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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 3080638" data-attributes="member: 8849">Meh.The Brienne part is pretty true and sorta funny, the rest is just 'trying too hard to be funny.' Personally, I enjoyed reading about Cersei being a bitch and screwing everything up. It was immensely satsifying watching as SHE proved to be her own worst enemy, not all these other people that she never trusted, pathetically plotted against, and (most likely) had carnal relations with. Hah, take that Cersei. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I really enjoyed Jaime's chapters. Especially his last few when he left King's Landing. Sam's and Brienne's chapters were, mostly, the low points of the book. Brienne wandering around aimlessly was pretty pointless, however it did allow us to see what the kingdom was like from the poor's perspective. So much of the book focuses on nobles ripping at each other's throats that the common folk were ignored. Sure, there were the occasional 'hey, the Mountain killed 80 people and raped 130 corpses over here' but aside from some of Arya's chapters in the last two books, none really gave much of an 'aftermath' picture of how the kingdom is.I could've lived without the Dorne chapters or they could've been cut down in size. As it was, for what 'glimpse' they offered of Dorne, they didn't offer much. Sansa and Arya's chapters were overall, pretty good. I enjoyed Arya's more than Sansa's but they were both good.The Iron Island's chapters were pretty cool too. As opposed to the Dorne chapters, these chapters felt like they 'progressed' forward a reasonable amount rather than just sort of... wallowing in a semi-stagnation.Overall, not as good as the other 3, nowhere near as good as Storm of Swords, but I still enjoyed it. I've read far, far worse and aFFC still beats them out, along with a lot of other 'good' novels.I'll see how my opinion changes when I reread the series again.</blockquote>

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