A Dance With Dragons Book Review

     Today I finished reading A Dance With Dragons. The fifth and latest book in George R.R Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. It's been a fun seven months for me reading these books, I don't remember ever being so invested in a series of books like this.
    
     As you may remember I pointed out in my Feast for Crows review I mentioned that key characters such as Tyrion, Jon Snow, and Dany were not in that book. That is because George R.R Martin's fourth volume became too long, so he had to split it up into two books. The first half or so of A Dance with Dragons is not a sequal to "A Feast For Crows," it runs parallel to it. "A Feast for Crows mainly focuses on the events of King's Landing, The Iron Islands, and Dorne. The first half of A "Dance with Dragons" focuses on The North, The Wall and beyond, and in the East.  

     I'll give a brief overview of the characters who were not in "A Feast for Crows," I'll start with Tyrion because he's my favorite character. He's fled King's Landing and is heading east. his storyline has a few twists and turns. at one point he's on a ship and he meets someone who will have a big role in "Winds of Winter." I won't say who he is because it's a pretty major spoiler.  
    
     Jon Snow is still on The Wall. He has to face some powerful foes from beyond the Wall, and he also has enemies within the Night's Watch, and Stannis is at the Wall in this book. I don't coinsider that a spoiler because he was on his way to The Wall at the end of third season in the show.  

    Daenerys Targaryen rules in Meereen. She had one of the most complex storylines. There's a lot of things happening in the east. For those who remember when she freed all those slaves in the third book, she made a lot of enemies by doing that so they all want to get rid of her.   

     In my opinion, I think this is the second best book in the series only behind "A Storm of Swords." There are quite a few cliff hangers at the end of this book. There's one big character drop, however I'm not positive if the character is dead. However this book is extremely well written, it's intense, and I had a blast reading it. I'm going to give "A Dance with Dragons" five out of five stars. I'm looking forward to the next one. I'll be doing a spoiler review of this book that should be up in a few days, and I'll probably post my review of the Desolation of Smaug in the near future as well. Thanks for reading everybody.