Title: Boring, unimaginative, formulaic, and badly written
Product review: Many people cite the book's darkness and violence and rape as their reason for hating this book. I think I would be ok with all that, as long as I thought the book was well-written, and had interesting characters and an engaging plot-line. I found none of that in this book. The only characters who leapt of the page were Arya and Tyrion; the rest were drab cardboard figures-- even when they were "complex". Ned, John, Bran, Catelyn just weren't made interesting enough. The plot, which is supposedly intricate, was boring and predictable and marched along at a snail's pace. The world-building was also lacking, and seemed to have been borrowed-- and borrowed unimaginatively, at that-- from every formulaic fantasy book out there. The old-fashioned style of language felt forced and completely fake. When I finished the book I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank god no one's forcing me to read all the rest of them.
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