This was the first time ever that I read a book by George. I became a GoT fan after the series last season. What I thought about is prose is that it have as much sex and killings as in the TV. The plots with the treasons and deceits are also remarkable. I already knew some of the story I was going to read. George gives the account of such detail in describing the names of all the involved people in the plot as the name of the house they belong to. It becames too much to swallow inventing names for all of the people. I think I'm not going to try to read another by George unless the books become shorter in length.