I believe that I ranked this one lower than any of the others. It got a lot of poor reviews bc of the lack of 'good' characters tell the story. And I agree. I despised hearing through Cersei and Arainne and random knights. But at the same time I saw the reason for it. The reader needed to know what was happenings in Dorne and King's Landing and wherever, I get that so I'm not too upset, but at the same time I wanted more Dany and Jon and Tyrion. That is why I only ranked it three stars. 
 I will say that I'm pretty upset that Martin decided half way through the series to just add another book. I mean are you seriously telling me that at 1000-1300 pages a book he couldn't get it all in in 6 books? There was seriously 1200 pages of information that he could not cut out? He couldn't have just added 100 pages to a few books and been done with it? It feels as if Martin thinks that every single word that he thinks of this world needs to be written down and published. I'm sorry, but that's not the case. For instance, in Cersei's books, Martin puts what Cersei's thinking and then mixes it up and puts it down again as what she says. Is that really necessary? No. Just put one. We get it, Cersei is a bitch that thinks and says horrible things. Fine, but we don't need to hear what she says two seconds before she says it. That's lame. 
 I am not in the least saying this and telling you not the read it. Despite this being my least favorite of the series, I still enjoyed it. I loved hearing Sam and Arya and Jamie and Brianne.