Diana’s Reviews > A Game of Thrones > Status Update

done with the main text... not entirely sure how i feel...

I am having such terrible reader's block! UGHHH I tried to break it today, but it was painful just getting through 3 short chapters...

*sigh*... bargaining over the puzzle pieces of death... I begin to find so many of these characters so unsavory that I wonder if I ought to continue.

the intrigue at court is starting to get interesting... but the sexism is getting annoying...

i'm going back a couple chapters with my comment, but this is bugging me. maybe it's just me being too sensitive politically, or maybe I've just been spoiled by Tamora Pierce, but it did surprise me when the same character who gave a young girl a sword made a comment about expecting women to shave their legs on the very same page.

bah humbug! make up your mind, please, sir. is this world to be desolate or hopeful? the balance you attempt is clumsy at best, if the boy is to die, let him die.

was it really necessary to make me connect with a character you're going to kill off in the first tenth of the book? i can't decide if that was lazy, cruel, or just plain stupid.