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It's rare for me to read a book during an appropriate season, but I'm glad I did for this one. Shivering outside in the cold really helped get me in the mood for the story.

I was excited to see this book was written in my favorite POV structure--split first person--but I was wary about the lack of character names labeling the POV sections. But somehow it works--the author manages to make it apparent from context within the first few lines of each section who is speaking.

I love the style, too. It reminds me of a fairy tale while still retaining everything I love about modern fiction.

I'm so upset with Carmel!

Started it just in time for Halloween

Looking forward to the Jaehaerys section... I've heard him compared to Basso from The Folding Knife.

I've read this section before in The Book of Swords, but if I'm not mistaken GRRM has added new parts for this book.

I kind of like that the style of this leaves a lot to the imagination. And that it leaves out a lot of the boring shit that's in the main books, like the food descriptions.

I've been excited for this book since it was announced (you can tell because I read it within a year of its release date). Most people were upset this wasn't Wind of Winter, but honestly, I've always preferred a prequel to a sequel, and I've long lamented that when (if?) GRRM finishes ASOIAF he'll be too burnt out to write the prequel I want so badly. So this was a really pleasant surprise.

Really loved the chapter that recounted Vlad's past lives. I could read a whole book of that.

Interesting, seems like this takes place before Hawk.

This is the perfect palate cleanser after the Republic.

I've heard a lot of good things about this book! Too early to form an opinion so far, but so far I like the protagonist's mischievousness and the creativity of the world-building.

Pretty sure I know what happened in "the year when".

Really liking the met'Oc family dynamics.

Liking this a lot so far. The setting is interesting--I don't see colonial settings in fantasy very often.