Is it just me, or does George R. R. Martin hate women?
Exhibit A: The main villain (the queen) has woman parts.
Exhibit B: Sansa.
Exhibit C: The whole reason war were declared when everything was all semi nice and kinda peaceful was because the king died (something Ned's stupidity had a hand in who I'll admit, isn't a woman) but mostly because Ned's wife thought it was a good idea to capture the queen's brother all on the very unreliable evidence of the hired goon using his knife.
Not only that, no one tried to collaborate Littlefinger's story. Of course, it's entirely possible that the bet and subsequent would be murder weapon exchanging hands was known only to Littlefinger and Tyrion. Not only would this make the already flimsy evidence even flimsier, but as said, no further investigating was done. Just, oh yeah, I gave him this dagger. Catelyn sees him: "GET HIM!" I get that she trusted the guy's opinion, but is that really enough in any age to capture someone? Especially when they
had to know the **** storm it would cause? In her defense, it's Ned's fault for not following up on the accusation, but it was all on her to capture Tyrion.
Dany seems to be the only one working to redeem the vagoos. And I'm really stoked to see how awesome Arya will be when she grows up a bit. She's already gone through the "my mentor died/turned evil" phase of being a protagonist and now there's just a war between her and home. You can do it, kid! :')
Oh yeah, I loved how in one of Bran's chapters they mention retroactively that when Lady (that one direwolf) died, it was actually meaningful. Gee, thanks book... for getting around to that NOW seeing as the book is almost over.
And actually, now that I'm not rolling my eyes every time the book points out how supernatural the wolves are... they
really want to hammer that point home.
And suddenly Ghost was back, stalking softly between two weirwoods. White fur and red eyes, Jon realized, disquieted. Like the trees...
Said trees are distinct in having white trunks and red eyes made by having holes poked out to the red sap underneath which he and his house pray to. Their own Jesus on the cross that they can pray to.
Hmm, subtle book. Not only do you compare one of the wolves to the gods, or least man's earth representation/connection to them, but you wanted the reader to notice it so badly you had one of the main characters point it out. :S
Also, The Warded Man/The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett is an awesome book. Go read it, people.
http://www.petervbrett.com/creations/