Surprised to find that after 3000+ pages, this series still keeps my interest. In fact it still rates as "can't put it down" with me. Although it would have been more properly entitled A Wrath of Weddings, A Storm of Swords has been the best of the series so far. Martin continues to drop tantalizing (and, occasionally, false) hints about the backstory, while charging straight ahead with the action and intrigue begun in the first two books.