OT: A Song Of Fire And Ice PC Game

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But GRRM seemed to forget to age his characters through the books.

It's a while since I read the first ones ( I haven't read the latest as i was waiting for the seconfd half to appear so I could read them both together). But IIRC the cahracters were only a few months older by the end as they were at the beginning. Lots of things had happened but he never seemed to push the time forward. The children were all the same age at the end as at the beginning....

I really liked the killing off of main characters at first. And it certainly makes the fighting tense. But after a while it did reduce the enjoyment of the story. Especially as he fell in to another trap. That of making bad/evil characters clever and worldly wise while the good characters were all naive and quite frankly rather dim. What was worse was if a character became good he lost all sense to become some hopeless honourable romantic. Oh dear....

I enjoyed reading the first books while I was reading them, but at the end I was left feeling that I really no longer cared. I dare say I will get the next books (and probably reread the first ones) but there are better series. I prefer Erikson by a margin. And while Jordan's series had a lot of faults I am far sorrier that I won't find out the ending to that series than I would be if I never touch GRRMs series again.