A Song of Ice and Fire Series (Books) *Spoilers*

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The problems with AFfC and ADwD is that they happen after things have winded down a little bit. There really isn't that much going on; its all just set-up for the next two books. GRRM was initially going to skip over the time period covered by the two books, but felt he was relying too much on flashbacks to cover necessary information from what happened. So, he scrapped what he had written by that point and started to actually tell this period of time in his story.

Hopefully now that we've gotten that set-up done, the final two books will return to something a little closer to AGoT - ASoS. It should also, theoretically, be a shorter wait since GRRM has resolved the issues that plagued him as he wrote AFfC and ADwD.