This review will contain mild spoilers. You've been warned.

This book was considerably better than A Feast for Crows.  It had characters many were looking forward to (Jon, Dany, and Tyrion), but the story did not move nearly as much as I expected it to and hoped it work.  The east (Mereen) has not moved forward much.  Dany is not much closer to Westeros and is perhaps farther from that.  Tyrion did not make it to Dany and the journey with Penny seemed to be irrelevant and boring.  Much of the planning in Dorne seemed all for naught (which isn't a problem, but I feel the book would have been better without Quentyn in it at all).

On the plus side, Arya's and Samwell's sections were interesting but too few and far between.

This series will not be finished in seven books unless the last two take place at a breakneck pace.
This review will contain mild spoilers. You've been warned. This book was considerably better than A Feast for Crows. It had characters many were looking forward to (Jon, Dany, and Tyrion), but the story did not move nearly as much as I expected it to and hoped it work. The east (Mereen) has not moved forward much. Dany is not much closer to Westeros and is perhaps farther from that. Tyrion did not make it to Dany and the journey with Penny seemed to be irrelevant and boring. Much of the planning in Dorne seemed all for naught (which isn't a problem, but I feel the book would have been better without Quentyn in it at all). On the plus side, Arya's and Samwell's sections were interesting but too few and far between. This series will not be finished in seven books unless the last two take place at a breakneck pace.