Upon reading this serie, i had the same feeling when reading [[Manga/Bleach the Arrancar Arc]] :
A good premise, nice characters, wordlbuilding...
And then it collapses on itself.
Because there's so many characters, some are left out, some get more attention than the other and the plot slow down so we can know where each of them are.
The sex scenes ? I was a little bothered by them but, okay, it's "realistic" so why not.
And now on the part that bothered me but not my friend:
It's too dark.
Now, dark and depressing can be nice but for me there was just too much of it.
I guess the thing that really bother me is that i don't understand what is the story about.
Is it the story of people who set aside their grudge to fight an evil that doesn't care for the political state of the country ? Unlikely.
Is it the story of how our inability to see the big picture will destroy us ? Then why are the ice zombies not here yet ?
The story of Daenerys ? The last time i saw her (it's been a while since i read the books) she was in the middle of nowhere after one of her dragons took her away from an arc that was waaay too long and unless there's an Ass Pull, i don't see how she could ever became relevant to Westeros again.
And, considering that absolutely every piece of fiction i came across in the past 20 years have some degree of Deconstruction to it, i would have been more impressed if he had gone with a Reconstruction instead.
So: A nice story that drag itself for too long and that don't know what direction it want to go next.
kinda like Bleach
Upon reading this serie, i had the same feeling when reading [[Manga/Bleach the Arrancar Arc]] : A good premise, nice characters, wordlbuilding...
And then it collapses on itself. Because there's so many characters, some are left out, some get more attention than the other and the plot slow down so we can know where each of them are.
The sex scenes ? I was a little bothered by them but, okay, it's "realistic" so why not.
And now on the part that bothered me but not my friend: It's too dark.
Now, dark and depressing can be nice but for me there was just too much of it.
I guess the thing that really bother me is that i don't understand what is the story about. Is it the story of people who set aside their grudge to fight an evil that doesn't care for the political state of the country ? Unlikely. Is it the story of how our inability to see the big picture will destroy us ? Then why are the ice zombies not here yet ? The story of Daenerys ? The last time i saw her (it's been a while since i read the books) she was in the middle of nowhere after one of her dragons took her away from an arc that was waaay too long and unless there's an Ass Pull, i don't see how she could ever became relevant to Westeros again.
And, considering that absolutely every piece of fiction i came across in the past 20 years have some degree of Deconstruction to it, i would have been more impressed if he had gone with a Reconstruction instead.
So: A nice story that drag itself for too long and that don't know what direction it want to go next.