I'll just be honest: I have problems with a lot of decisions Georgey has made as a writer, including the whole "let's write from 16^[sup]23[/sup] perspectives with characters we'll try to kill off and make a really confusing world for everyone!" I don't think it's a good approach. I also don't like how we hop between different continents so frequently. Frankly, there should be a book about the war in the north, another book with a southern perspective, another book about shit happening around the wall, and a book about what's happening with those goddamned dragons, and maybe one last book to FINALLY TIE IT TOGETHER and make a complete story from a limited number of perspectives.

But instead we're led on an infinite goose chase about coming dragons interspersed with tales of non-consensual sex of varying degrees of "oh God why am I reading this?"

EDIT: Let me add this: GRRM does a wonderful job in his story about Duncan the Tall or whatever his name is. It's focused around one character - an actual protagonist and idealistic young knight (who's actually a peasant IIRC) who's living in a truly crapsack world. It doesn't harm GRRM's ability to write about how crapsack the world is, and it still breaks many fantasy norms. [i]It's way better than his shit in the main series of books.[/i]

He can write when he actually wants to, but I think he just knows what sells and says "eh, why the fuck not?"