After five (or is it six now?) years of waiting, Martin delivers the next book. 
 And it's almost all setup for the finale. 
 Yanno, I didnt want to start this series, despite the rave reviews, until he completed it for just this reason. The waiting for "what happened next" drives me BATTY. I started it in 08, when amazon put it up, and I was into the third book by the time the consensus that the listing was bogus was arrived at. 
 Still, its a positive review. It is. Not enough Arya and Tyrion, and way too much Meereen, but its a deft handling of the bridging phase that all such series must endure. And one must give Martin props for figuring out to get himself out of whatever corner it was he'd painted himself into. (Im of the opinion that that's why so much Meereen- he had to stretch his timeline out.) 
 Still, lets just hope he got himself back on track well enough that the six and seventh novels come along at a reasonable speed.