I am reading again, maybe it's the third time, the first book of the series, AGOT. I noticed that the chapters are very short compared to ADWD, so I calculated the average chapter length for each volume, here the results: Volume | Pages | Chapters | Avg Chapter Length AGOT | 704 | 73 | 9.6 ACOK | 768 | 70 | 11 ASOS | 992 | 82 | 12.1 AFFC | 753 | 46 | 16.4 ADWD | 1056 | 73 | 14.5 What I think that short chapters are better, in my opinion the length of AFFC and ADWD chapters are not due to