I read the first...three? got kinda bored, decided it would be worth reading again when more of them were done. But yeah on the deaths--I thought they were pretty obvious. My main problem was that I was getting bored waiting for some parts of the plot to get attention, and I'm wondering what the genre shift will be when the shit comes down from the North and smashes everyone playing court politics.

And I found Daenerys obnoxious beyond redemption.