Title: Don't believe the hype
Product review: I rushed out and bought this book after reading the reviews on this site only to be very disappointed. A novel is meant to be about somebody and something. This book changes viewpoint so frequently between a cast of unsympathetic or shallow characters that I could not relate to any of them.Though Martin's writing is well above average for the genre (except for the POV changes), this story is like watching a movie through a strobe light. For mine, Robert Martin's 'shades of grey' book just created a grey cheerless book. If he'd have written the story, as good novels do, with at least 70-80% of the story through a single character it might have salvaged the novel. I certainly won't be tracking down book 2.If you're new to fantasy, stick with Tolkien, early Fiest and Eddings, and Tad William's Dragonbone chair series. Newer authors like Martin and Erikson write unsympathetic characters and the less said about Robert Jordan's never ending story the better.
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