[Thadlerian]

Did anyone make themselves any thoughts about the prologue itself? I found it slightly annoying. Not that it was badly written, but somehow it was very predictable. From the paragraph (the 2nd.) where Pate's girl was mentioned, you would have to be profoundly blind not to see that one of them very soon would suffer this or that sort of gruesome death. I can't remember any actual titles, but I seem to have read this sort of side-plot dozens of times in fantasy. I found myself thinking "come on, get on with that dying now". The only element of uncertainty was whether it would be Rosey or Pate being killed.

Otherwise a great book, though. Less action and more introspection, it seems.

But there's another thing I don't understand (actually there are many, but this is the foremost one) : In one of the later Jaime chapters, Lady Genna says: "... but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year."
What does this mean? Is there some sort of genealogical anomaly that I haven't catched yet, or is the meaning figurative; like, Tyrion inherited Tywin's characteristics while Jaime didn't?