YMMV / The Weirwood Queen

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • Part IV, Arya VII depicts both Bloodraven draining Arya's life energy from her abdomen in her sleep - without yet explicitly revealing that Robb, Rickon, Jon, and Theon are being similarly preyed upon - and the discovery of her MRKH syndrome, leaving some readers with the impression that Bloodraven magically destroyed her uterus.
  • In Part V, Olyvar I, Euron announcing at top volume that "I am come!" led to some giggles.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Euron Greyjoy is a menacing figure who magically binds a dragon, repairs the Horn of Winter with blood magic, and burns great swathes of Volantis, Pyke, and Oldtown. But by the time of his second confrontation with Olyvar and Viserion, he and Rhaegal are in terrible condition and he is swiftly barbecued.
• Awesome Moments:
  • Part III: Olyvar fighting against the Mountain and winning. Better yet, he does it by avoiding the exact same mistake that killed his father in canon: not waiting to gloat and just cutting his head off. With a broken arm, no less.
  • Part V: Olyvar by then having announced himself as Aegon Targaryen, works with Viserion to defeat Euron Greyjoy and Rhaegal in the third battle over the God's Eye.
• Catharsis Factor: While Qyburn's execution was indeed grisly, most would agree that he deserved every bit of it due to his torture disguised as scientific endeavors and his role in the near-destruction of King's Landing.
• Funny Moments:
  • The contrast between Olyvar's and Jaime's POV chapters:
    Olyvar I:
    Olyvar tried to speak, but all that emerged was a dry croak. He licked his lips and stepped forward, praying his voice would not crack, ignoring Ellaria and Nym’s frantic attempts to clutch at his sleeve as he shouted.
    “She has a champion!”
    Jaime VI:
    “She has a champion!”
    The bastard’s voice was a harsh bellow that belied the two frantic women hanging off his sleeves.
  • Part III, Arya V: Anguy's lover tells him off for somehow managing to blow all the prize money from the Hand's tourney.
    Helly: Ten thousand dragons, when my old Pate was lucky to make ten a year smithing when he lived in Lord Harroway's Town! A hundred years o' money in your hand!
    Arya: [pertly] A thousand.
    Helly: A thousand!
  • Part IV, Jon I: Jon's flashback montage of Stannis haranguing him about getting Robb to bend the knee, culminating in Stannis doing so while they're both on the toilet.
  • Part IV, Edythe I: The Entertainingly Wrong explanation of current events Edythe gets from the pilgrims heading from King's Landing.
    "I thought the demon was in the form of a direwolf," a brown-robed brother asked.
    The golden-robed septa tsked. "No, that was the spirit that carried away Stark's daughter."
    "I must disagree, Septa Utha. The direwolf is obviously metaphorical," Septon Timoth argued. "Some northman must have survived the coup and taken her to safety."
    [...]
    All agreed that it was the Kingslayer who found [Sansa], losing his sword hand to the vicious red direwolf that protected the girl.
    "I still say the direwolf is a metaphor," Septon Timoth objected, only to be shouted down by half a dozen other septons in green silk drawn to the sound of debate.
  • Part IV, Olyvar VI: Jaime demands a (nonlethal) duel with Olyvar in exchange for agreeing to testify to his incest, likely eager to show off his recovered swordsmanship, and Olyvar takes the wind out of his sails simply by not even trying.
    Olyvar: Oh no. I yield.
  • Chapter 162 sees Ser Dickon Manwoody complain about his nieces being named Paxta and Dagos, after their grandfathers. Given his own unfortunate name, he's clearly speaking from experience.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Robb quips that Stannis lacks the resources to conquer the Seven Kingdoms by main force "unless Your Grace has a dragon hidden within the Nightfort." Arya thinks irately that "Maybe Stannis would burn himself, and stop bothering Jon." Stannis immolates his wife, his closest advisor, and almost his daughter before changing his mind at the last moment and burning in her place, all in the effort to hatch a dragon that emerges possessed by the Others and needs to be put down by Jon.
• Narm: Euron's attempt at a Badass Boast in Chapter 153 comes off as rather silly due to an unintentional Double Entendre:
  Greyjoy's voice echoed over the lake, carried by some wind or spell. "I am come!"
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The Iron Islands are kept nearly entirely offscreen, so there's no depiction of Asha and Victarion's alliance defeating Euron at the kingsmoot.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Some characters end up together that never interacted in canon, i.e. Jeyne Poole and one of the smallfolk of Sherrer, Perwyn Frey and Wynafryd Manderly, Brienne of Tarth and Deziel Dalt.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The death of Jeyne Westerling, after she runs herself ragged working to save Robb's life and then to treat the victims of the winter fever that she eventually succumbs to herself.
  • Lysa Arryn sacrifices herself to help feed her son Sweetrobin, first by giving him her portion of the Eyrie's dwindling food supplies and then by commanding that her flesh be served to him (and the other children present, who she hallucinates are Robin's stillborn and miscarried older siblings) after she starves to death. The other survivors try to keep this from Robin, but he figures it out anyway.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Tyrion V was intended to show the viewpoint character's darker side in his enjoyment of physically abusing Cersei, but multiple readers cheered him on after Cersei ordered the murder of a harmless beggar and sparked a riot that killed and injured many more.
• What Measure Is a Non-Badass?: In-universe, Jaime Lannister thinks little of Ser Deziel Dalt given the man's more scholarly interests compared to his own martial inclination.
• The Woobie: Rhaegal and Viserion, as per canon, are the only dragons who are able to be imprisoned after their sibling eats a child. Then Rhaegal is abducted by Euron, who compensates for the dragonbinding spell's limits with physical abuse, and Viserion goes mad from the isolation, not helped by being trapped in chains that it's growing too large for.