A Dance with Dragons

Executive Summary: A better entry in the series than [b:A Feast for Crows 13497 A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) George R.R. Martin http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358261107s/13497.jpg 1019062], but for me that was almost guaranteed because that book was severely lacking in chapters with Jon and Tyrion. This book has a few slow points, but was highly enjoyable otherwise.Full ReviewI'd give this book one of two subtitles: “I want to marry Daenerys Targaryen” or possibly “You know nothing Jon Snow”. I really got tired of the latter. It's apparently become his mantra. I don't think a single Jon chapter went by without the phrase.This book, like the last book suffers from too many character POVs in my opinion. I found myself stopping the book for the night, or just getting annoyed when I finished a chapter to find some random minor character having a turn for a chapter.As the book progressed these chapters became more important/less annoying, but I hope with [b:The Winds of Winter 12111823 The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6) George R.R. Martin http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nocover/60x80.png 6570035] he finds a way to tighten this back up as he merges the POVs from this with [b:A Feast for Crows 13497 A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) George R.R. Martin http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358261107s/13497.jpg 1019062] (which also had too many POVs in my opinion).The big thing this book had going for it compared to the last was the return of some of the characters I enjoy the most. I think the last one would have been a lot better if he had simply told less story in it, and kept all the characters, but that's just me.I was also disappointed that Bram only got a few chapters and his story barely moved at all. He seems to do this with Arya a lot as well, which makes her chapters all the better when they do come up. I was happy to find she had a few in this book near the end as well. In Bram's case however, I feel like nothing seems to happen.Some of the Southern characters do make a return around the 70% mark, which was a bit sooner than I hoped/expected but given it's length compared to Feast, I suppose that's about right.Overall despite a slow point where Mr. Martin chained together a string of chapters with all minor character POVs, I enjoyed this book a lot.Now I'm stuck waiting like everyone else what will probably be another 5 years or so before seeing the next entry. I just hope he finishes the story before he kicks it, because I'm not very optimistic at this point.