funny how a lot of the graphic politics details are included and not complained about
and the violence - I guess writing a book like this you need to cover each aspect of life inteh right proportion
... I just think all can be important if detailed and treated right and if the balance is right, but obviously that is hard to judge for everyone and sex is a tricky subject. I think the telling thing with Cersei is that she thought she was much more clever and more in control of her thralls than she actually was, she thought the fact she was a women protected her in a way from people realising her manupulations (as they thought only men could do that so would not consider her a player to the level she thought she was), when in fact the smarter ones just thought she was mad and saw right through her, in the end thinking she could control people by sex backfired when the church got hold of her knight Kettleback and tortured the truth out of him. I did love the scene when she realised she was caught out and in the crap, a fantastic sense of justice came over me
but I did kind of feel sorry for what is to come with her letting a religious army loose on the land expecting it to have some loyalty to her as its creator and then thinking oh crap it's gonna be my downfall, and I think these church knights are going to have a big impact