Kellyline Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 One thing I really loved about this book was the overlapping of characters from different POVs. Like Aria and Sam meeting at Braavos. And that he never out right said it was Aria, we had to know by the description and clues given. And a more obvious one, Brienne and Gendry.It also made me kind of frustrated. It's like, Aria! Tell Sam that Jon is your half brother! Or Gendry might have told Brienne that he knows Aria. Anyway, it just made it way cool for me, and I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LampreyPie Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yeah, I agree. It's really cool how the characters' stories weave together and there's connections between characters you would never expect, and then I also agree about how frustrating it can be because the characters never connect in the satisfying way you are looking for. It's just maddening when Sam finds Bran but can't tell Jon that he's alive. (Which still seems unnecessarily cruel to the reader to me, because surely Jon can be trusted to keep it secret if Sam says he has to. Just knowing that his dear brother is alive would be nice, he doesn't need to do anything about it or tell anyone.)I don't have specific examples, but it's cool to see casual callbacks to other characters, or getting to see the same events but have totally different impressions of them from the different characters' POVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrionFan82 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I agree, I loved this in ASOS and AFFC. This isn't spoilery at all, but it's interesting seeing how the early Sam and Jon chapter (from ADWD) read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakenhelm Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sam running into Arya was a bit frustrating. I totally understand why Arya didnt say anything to Sam. She has no reason to trust him. Something along the same lines I have been thinking about is the difference between what we as readers know and our information vs. what the characters know. It's very easy to get caught up in it. We see the story through character POV, but yet there is also the Reader POV that forms and GRRM plays on the conflict very well. When I get around to a re-read, I am going to try to read it from a non-pro Stark POV. It is too late at this point. I am too invested in the Starks and can't view them as anything but the heroes.For example, we are privy to what is going on inside Ned's head, but the other characters don't have that same information. They act according to what they know, not what we know. It is an obvious point, but only if you take a few steps back to examine it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyrionFan82 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 That an interesting point. I think i be tough to do, not impossible though. I just liked Ned so much in AGOT and found myself rooting for his kids over the other books do much. Especially since Jon and Arya were some of my favorite characters. I think it's an interesting idea though since when you read Jamie's chapters in ASOS his POV of Robert's Rebellion is very different from what you've heard already. That being said, I don't think there's any way Cersei or Tywin come out looking good no matter how many re-reads you do lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakenhelm Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 God no! The day I defend Cersei of Tywin is the day I need to put the books away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter's Lion Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I wanted so hard to like Cersei. In the first few books I could really identify with her character because of the whole "you're not good/smart/worthy enough because you're a girl"...but yeah, she finally got her chance to shine and all she did was screw it up in a really evil way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhaleesiDany Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Yeah, I was more than a little disappointed that she didn't die in this one. So ready to see her go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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