I liked reading this. I liked seeing more of Cersei, Jaime, and Sam's points of view. I liked seeing the growth of Arya and Sansa, but I can see why most plot synopses for the series skip over this book. On the whole, nothing really happened. King's Landing and Dorne and Littlefinger did their plotting, like they do, but nothing big really came to fruition. I kind of wish that Martin had done half the story of both sides to just tell more of what was going on rather than split this into two books by points of view the way he did.