[JohnSnow]

In the first three books the sexual explicitness fit the storyline, Drogo and Danaerys for example.
Tyrion's super-impish relations with Shea, I will admit, seemed a bit wearing. I still think it fit into the story.

This book however seems to focus in detail on the raping, deflowering, etc.. I wonder if this is another byproduct of the "regional" splitting of the book. The area around King's Landing has been devastated by the war and it could be his intention to highlight that. One other possibility could be that this book concentrated heavily on Cersi. Her character seems to be losing grasp on certain aspects of reality and spent a lot of time thinking rude thoughts concerning other characters.

I would like to read a combined book of AFFC and ADWD intermixed the way Martin would have liked to have written it and see if I still feel the same way.

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