I am not quite sure that I would read the others if I hadn't bought the 4 books set. A whole lot of pages for what actually happened. It's good and interesting, but it could have been more captivating with a different pace. The rythm of point of views changes didn't work with me too well. You get into a part, then bam you go back to something boring that takes forever to built up and when it actually does, we change pov. Sigh. I would have liked to see Robb pov as well but heh, Bran is so much more interesting...