I burned threw all the books in 2 months after the first season, sad to say it's all downhill from here, it's not just about people dying, the plot itself dosnt move anywhere, at the last book things are pretty much the same as now.

also new antagonists get conceived in an arbitrary way, and bad situations just pop up from nowhere, it's like a reverse Deus Ex Machina.

I gave up on A Dance With Dragons, too many pages of nothingness

Im all for violence/mature themes etc, but the books are nothing but misery