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1   ShellyS | Mar 30, 2014 |  What happens next?! Reason # 14832498 why I hate starting a series that is not finished! George, please come up with an ending for the series soon! (  ) mbbassdrlib | Mar 23, 2014 | And now the wait begins for books Six and Seven. (  ) stevewhite71 | Mar 19, 2014 | First you kill *SPOILERS* and then *SPOILERS* and now you leave for dead *SPOILERS*!!!!!! I HATE you George RR Martin!!!! ( ) ComicGirl178 | Mar 14, 2014 | First you kill *SPOILERS* and then *SPOILERS* and now you leave for dead *SPOILERS*!!!!!! I HATE you George RR Martin!!!! ( ) ComicGirl178 | Mar 14, 2014 |
 It's terrible. Martin has taken the concept of the pot-boiler to an extreme — it's a novel where nothing happens other than continual seething, roiling turmoil. He whipsaws the reader through a dozen different, complex story lines where characters struggle to survive in a world wrecked by civil war — one other problem is that I'd hit a chapter about some minor character from the previous four books, and struggled to remember who the heck this person is, and why I'm supposed to care — and again, nothing is resolved. Well, not quite: major characters are brutally killed, if they're male, and graphically and degradingly humiliated into irrelevance if they're female. I guess that's a resolution, all right — perhaps the last book will be a lovingly detailed description of a graveyard, draped with naked women mourning?  Martin remains boundlessly creative, sketching out intricately realized new civilizations, societies, religions, and factions on one continent while continuing to complicate the established political agendas on another. No part of his world ever feels like an afterthought or an easy fantasy cliché. Even so, “A Dance With Dragons,” for its bounty of adventure, is more about Mr. Martin marshaling his forces in anticipation of the cycle’s final two books.  Was "A Dance With Dragons" worth the six-year wait? Absolutely. Is contained inA Song of Ice and Fire 1-5: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, a Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin ContainsA Dance With Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust by George R. R. Martin A Dance With Dragons 2: After the Feast by George R. R. Martin I guerrieri del ghiaccio by George R. R. Martin I fuochi di Valyria. Le cronache del ghiaccio e del fuoco vol. 11 by George R. R. Martin Das Lied von Eis und Feuer 20 by George R. R. Martin Os Reinos do Caos - As Crónicas de Gelo e Fogo Nº10 (5.2) by George R. R. Martin
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This one leaves a lot of loose ends. Most of the book, at least the first half if not a bit more, runs concurrently with book four, relating what's been going on with characters not seen in the fourth book. Then time moves forward once more, and we see some though not all of the characters who populated that fourth volume.
Winter is close now, very close. Blizzards make the business of war in the north difficult. New alliances are made, while others are shattered. And there are dragons. Dany's dragons grown bigger, wilder, independent. And that's pretty much all I can say, because now I'm a member of the legion of fans who are reading the books and watching the HBO series who know more than the fans of just the TV show know. And I will not spoil anything for those watching the show only. Suffice it to say there is bloodshed, new characters to root for and against, and WTF moments this series is known for. And if you're not reading the books, just watching the show, you're missing a lot. Though the show, after the first season, has deviated a bit from the books, I have no idea how much that will continue. The show has mostly collapsed or combined characters and scenes from the books, while adding in scenes only referenced in the books. They really do complement each other nicely. (