I usually wait for paperbacks, but decided to read this right away to avoid spoilers. After 400 pages, I say the new characters are entirely forgettable, Daenarys has lost what once made her appealing, and the plot is so, so tedious.
And yet, I cannot put it down.
I'm 426 pages in and I'm having trouble disagreeing with you on almost every front. A FEAST FOR CROWS was the world's biggest literary teaser trailer, so I wanted DRAGONS to be a non-stop kickassathon. But more than a third in and nothing has really happened yet. It's really starting to piss me off.
ReplyDeleteThough I will say this: It's clear that various long-untied threads are starting to wind together now, finally, and the promise of this conversion is enough to keep me reading. I think we need to get over a hump in DRAGONS that carries us past the CROWS timeline before anything serious starts to happen; right now it's following the same post-war ploddery that made CROWS such a snoozefest.
But I, too, cannot put it down.
I finished it, and while I enjoyed it while reading it, in hindsight, it seemed rushed. And that there really wasn't that much going on. I won't say it's a bad book, but it wasn't the best in the series.
ReplyDeleteI just finished it last night, having purchased it the day it came out. I have to say I enjoyed it, though not as much as the first three books (although, I'm not someone who thought A Feast for Crows was terrible, just a little slow and disappointing).
ReplyDeleteA lot of people complain that the plot hasn't progressed much in the past two books, made even clearer given that they essentially take place over the same time period. I have to say I agree. Some of the characters I don't care about (which I consider worse than "disliking"), but those I've enjoyed the POVs of I still do. Like the first commenter mentioned, I find the part after CROWS' timeline a little more interesting.
I like to reread the entire series every once in a while (which says something since I read the first four consecutively only last year), but I feel like it's going to be a bit of a chore to reread this one.