It's taken me nine months - admittedly including taking breaks to read things that
aren't A Song of Ice and Fire - but I've finally got to the end of the 5 volumes published so far. I did kind of expect George R.R. Martin to announce that
The Winds of Winter would suddenly be available today and I'd be behind again, but I'm all caught up now with the second half of
A Dance with Dragons. I can certainly see why people complain about the action stalling quite a lot, and by this stage there's too many characters to keep track of some of the time, but there
are some significant developments going on. Although there's still two novels to go, finally the Epilogue of
After the Feast has a bit of a twist with the return of a major character who's been gone for a long time, and which suggests that the story is getting ready to start wrapping itself up - although in a typically messy way, I'm sure.
I've still been enjoying the ride, or I wouldn't have read all the books more or less continuously, but I'm looking forward to getting back to reading something different as well.
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