I don't even know how to rate this right now, so I'm going to just give it three stars for the moment. I enjoyed about 30% of it, but reading the rest was like pulling teeth (Or like eating for Theon. Which we heard about at length. Repeatedly). A huge chunk in the middle felt both boring and useless. I can reconcile boring in these books if I feel it contributes significantly to the plot. Unfortunately, I did not feel so for many of the chapters in A Dance with Dragons. It picked up again toward the end, but not enough to save the book as a whole.