Evil man

George R R Martin is an evil man. He's one of my favorite Author's, so naturally when his much anticipated book came out I went out and scooped it up (I even paid hardcover pricing).

As with the other books of his that I have read (mostly the Game of Thrones Series), this one was a captivating read. The nature of the book was such that we were only following half the characters from the last three books (the other half will be the next book). Each character has their own chapter, then the next chapter is a different character, and so the book cycles through the main characters so that every six chapters or so you will be back to the character you started with. It is an interesting way to move the plot.

Let me say the book was phenomenal, a really great read... and I don't think Martin got caught up in the details the way some other authors have been bogged down (such as Robert Jordan), but the man left off every character on a cliffhanger. Every one.

Now we aren't talking a re-run here... where you see the next episode a week from now and know what happens. We are talking a two year (at least) wait until the next book. But I don't think that will even spell relief because according to his webiste, his next book is about the other characters in the previous books. So that means I don't get to find out if my favorite character dies for around four years.

FOUR YEARS!!!

That is why I say George R R Martin is an evil man. He is torturing my sense of empathy... which he contructed.