It's been a long time since I read Crossroads of Twilight, but yeah, I think at least A Feast for Crows was that bad. A few interesting scenes, but generally no progress at all. The first half of A Dance with Dragons was just as bad. The last half was clearly better, though, and the story...
The Lies of Locke Lamora
An interesting debut from Scott Lynch, with lots of humor and action.
A Game of Thrones
The best book in this series so far in my opinion, although A Storm of Swords and A Clash of Kings is very close.
Gardens of the Moon
Eriksons Malazan-series is something you either...
Hello. :)
I'm a 20 year old student from Norway. I've been lurking around the forums for a few weeks now. As fantasy reading (and sometimes writing) always have been a passion of mine, I found this site to be very interesting and a nice resource.
Have you read Robert Jordans A Wheel of Time-series? "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons" is kind of the "Crossroads of Twilight" of ASoiAF. Martin has a lot of POVs and sub-plots, and as we follow so many characters separately the story progression becomes very slow. The POVs is...