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Title: Twists, turns, shock and awe in an epic fantasy world
Review: This is the third book in George RR Martin's epic series, and by all means, this is an epic. The book is massive both in scale and length, continuing the mutiiple story lines from the prior books, with each chapter focused on a particular character. As mentioned before, the author has no qualms about killing, maiming or drastically changing characters, including ones considered to be major players. I was shocked by some of the events in this volume and kept having to stop myself from going ahead to find the next chapter for a particular character to find out what had happened. Without giving anything away, this book focuses more on Jon Snow, Tyrion, Arya and Sansa, with the other major characters having less presence. I have no idea where things will end up in the next volume, although I am tempted to wait to read it until the next, long promised volume is published.
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