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[T]he air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

George R.R. Martin have you EVER smelled a flower

I simply think that if you're going to write your work as a response to Tolkien and lowkey imply that you're better than him, MAYBE you could have halfway competent prose. Anyway the spicy flowers are tempting me to DNF

I like how the Stark father is about to do the redneck thing and just kill the wolf pups in front of his small children

He had taken off Father’s face, Bran thought, and donned the face of Lord Stark of Winterfell.

He's seven?? I'm sorry but I do NOT remember thinking like this when I was seven at all. Little kids can be very intelligent and I don't want to imply otherwise, but something about this sentence just doesn't ring true for me

Lying dead like that, you saw how young he was. A boy.

He just made a misogynist joke about his wet nurse like a few pages ago, am I really supposed to feel bad for him

Look, I know I'm supposed to be on Will's side, but no, don't build a fucking fire when you JUST found an enemy camp near the location. I don't care that everyone at the camp is mysteriously dead, there could be more of them in the area! It's a tradeoff at this point and I don't think Royce is stupid for not immediately jumping to zombies as the answer to the mystery. Unrelatedly, he is a misogynist freak tho

"He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife."
"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."

..........Why is this rando minor character getting described like he's in a BL novel

What is going on