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reviewed A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

George R. R. Martin: A Dance With Dragons (Hardcover, 2011, Harper Voyager) 4 stars

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in …

Review of 'A Dance With Dragons' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Although a satirist's wet dream, basically it is a genre story of sadism. Every joke is a jape, every coward a craven. Nobody in this created word has discovered the number 50; it is always half a hundred. To quote a reviewer on Amazon, "nothing good happens to anybody". Interestingly, it would be great as a single book - after several thousand pages one feels dirty.