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This post is ALL ABOUT TALKING ABOUT THE SERiES - You really don't want to read this if you're reading the series now, and have NOT FINISHED the A Dance with Dragons.

I absolutely want to yammer and chat about this - so here's the LJ-CUT.

Seriously, dont' click through, spoilers are RIGHT on the other side of the cut!

Okay, so i just finished reading A Dance with Dragons. I have to agree with

rintraroars - it's DEPRESSING! But no more than the other books - the descent into anarchy continues - but we start to find out who is behind it all! Wow!

But, I have some questions - maybe folks can help me out...

1) How did Arya actually kill the insurer? There's a hint that she swapped coins with the sea captain, the captain met with the insurer, and he dropped dead of a heart attack - which rings a bell in my head about something earlier, but I can't see how that worked.

2) JON? REALLY?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (This is the first time in... i don't know how many years - that I actually started crying reading a book. Wow)

3) Robert Strong - who is he? Undead? Gregor Clegane? (though that would be tricky since The Mountain's head is in Dorne, no?)

4) Sandor Clegane - The Hound - Brienne tells Jaime that she has found Sansa, but she needs Jaime to come alone to see her, or else the Hound will kill her. But previously, we heard the Hound was dead, and Sansa's whereabouts unknown. Also, wasn't brienne being hung last time we heard from her? This sort of stuff makes me hold out hope for Jon.

5) So, is Stannis really dead? The whole Winterfell situation is a mess (even more now - we dn't know who holds what where).

6) I get uncomfortable every time Theon talks about how hard it is to eat with all hsi broken teeth. Sheesh that's hard to read.

7) This one I lost track of somewhere. Where is Rickon?

I think the last line of the book should have been "Winter is here."

So, discuss!