A child born at ADWD’s release is now old enough to vape, play fortnite competitively, and make Tik Toks about skibidi toilet… really makes you think 😮

So Dance is old enough to make a KZfaq channel to leave a comment about how they’ve been waiting a life time for Winds

I will be fucking livid if Winds doesn’t have a cover matching the 2011 paperbacks to go with my existing set

Dance is the age Daenerys was when she was married off to Khal Drogo.

I've seen plenty of people be upset that The Winds of Winter has taken so long, but I have DEFINITIVE and INDISPUTIBLE proof that it must be coming out this year, and that the 13 year wait between Dance and Winds is actually a genius scheme that has been planned from the very beginning. You see, the Night's King was the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. The Night's King also has 13 letters in their name/title. Some theories also suggest that the Night's King may have also been the last hero, who had a dozen companions - making them a group of 13. You see George planned it all out! It was always supposed to take 13 years for the Winds of Winter to come out! It was all a genius plan! The Winds of Winter confirmed.

If fucking Griffin Reborn is no.1 Quinn I swear to god

Barristan explaining Bonifer Hastys backstory in Daenerys VII was quite something. Duty truly is the death of love.

I do agree that KingBreaker has one of the best action sequences in ASOIAF. Martin loves to have action be dictated by the perspective and experience of the pov character. KingBreaker is great because we see first hand how Barristan has lived long enough to become an old soldier. He knows exactly how much he needs to move to beat his opponent. He also knows his armor is a great advantage, but has enough experience to know he needs more vision then his helmet would normally allow. (Another really great example imo is the trial by seven in The Hedge Knight. Dunk can barely see anything and his relative lack of experience is emphasized by him focusing on a training technique he was taught.)

My brain wasn't mathing at the start and I thought "wait you're 15???"

Ok, the reason Tyrion/Jorah in Volantis is so long is because Tyrion is worldly, learned, and observant - GRRM wants us to start thinking about and caring about Volantis (mixed results - I didn't start caring until my 6+ readthrough) but there's so much that this will matter if other books come out

It's just so absurd that it's been 13 years and still no book 6. Fuck.

Reek being absent from a top 3 chapters from adwd is a nuclear take

I’m still on that WoW copium let’s all smoke it together we just need to wait to world con it’s going to happen. (I need it to happen damn you Martin!!)😢😢😢

Daznak’s Pit is absolutely my favorite chapter. Dany’s always been my favorite and not only to see her finally fly but also her yelling at Drogon like he’s a misbehaving pet makes me laugh every time. And Strong Belwas just makes every Dany chapter better.

I think he's mad about someone leaking the Dragon cake. I also think he's acting kind of like a dad trying to convince his children that they did not guess what their Christmas gifts are.

the 1 melisandre chapter is amazing and jons final chapter as well, surprised you dont have either on top 3

No Theon chapters in the top 3? Come on. Best PoV in the book.

15:02 I find his blogpost from the 11th of july even more strange since George uses a blue winter rose which he hasn't used since that enigmatic post in march.

Martin’s “pessimistic” blog was kinda cryptic though. The way he said “Winds of Winter WILL be announced” and then said “where and when I cannot say…” which seems like such a teaser, rather than “don’t get your hopes up, I’m clawing my eyes out writing it” is so exciting. George seems so positive lately, and sure that could be HOTD, but I rlly think he’s finished Winds and focussing on outlining dream while doing side projects, getting prepped for doing Dream soon

Quinn was crossing an emotional mountain range in this video. The Kingbreaker is a great chapter, I love that the next one is the Dragontamer - its ending makes the latter really suspenseful. The epilogue is really good too - there are so many plot hints in there. It might be one of GRRM’s most stacked non-vision chapter. From its opening with a character who should be important going forward to seeding Mercy, it makes stuff happen. Fun fact: Conningtons appear in two of the three of his favorite ADWD chapters.

Before watching I gotta share my own best and worst three chapters no particular order. Best: Bran I- alongside the prologue this chapter does a great job at setting the tone of the book: its cold, there’s no food, and the only way to survive is at the expense of others. Very unsettling. Theon I- I’ll admit Theon is not my favorite character, but I can’t deny the drama inherent in this chapter. Winterfell is a simmering pot about to boil over, and Theon is smack in the middle of it. Cersei II- Yeah the walk of Shame was just a great character piece for Cersei. There’s some catharsis with this as its the first time in all her chapters where Cersei finally has to self-reflect to some extent, after spending all of Feast failing forward. Great chapter Worst: The Watcher- not necessarily bad in terms of content, but it has big ‘why is this here’ energy. I feel like this belonged either in Feast or Winds, and not as the sole Dorne POV in Dance. Especially given its placement halfway through the book, its such a non-sequitor Jon V- again I wouldn’t call any Jon chapter bad, in truth, its just there’s a lot there with not much happening. Jon V is here cause I remember it the least, and the one novel piece of info it has is just ‘the wildlings in Mole’s Town have been carving faces into the trees’. Tyrion II/Tyrion III - this one is a case of ‘did we really need two whole chapters for this?’ Given all that happens is Illyrio and Tyrion ride out of Pentos and meet up with the Griff squad. There’s bits of both I like, but there had to have been a more concise way of presenting it. Especially given the start of Dance is so heavily Jon and Tyrion laden, it becomes tiring.

Like you basically said, when they release a new book they are not likely to include it in a complete set for a while so that publishers can make bank on selling separate units (new book standalone; complete set). WoW confirmed! 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Kevin did appear in Sanshas' last chapter in Clash. He had one line.

I work a 9-5 and find plenty of time to watch these videos what’s the hold up. I kid I kid

GRRM post sounds like a dad who just got caught and had to lie in order to conceal the deal. Yes i’m high on copium, why are you asking?

Love your concise videos, tons of interesting takes and details, but not exceedingly long as with others. Was bummed out by the recent blog posts, but your optimism is infectious! Keep it up!

The best three chapters are Davos w/ Manderly (my son has come home and the north remembers), Doran with the Sandsnakes (oberyn was the viper & i was the grass), and Jon with the Iron Bank (when princes don't pay their debts, new princes take their place - which 1) shows Jon has a really sophisticated view of westerosi politics and 2) the iron bank has a deep knowledge of potential rival successors, much like littlefinger 3) Jon demonstrates a better *working* economic knowledge than pretty much any other POV character)

Quinn picking every book as the best except for storm , the actual best 😂

He mentions Blood and Fire too almost as if he's fully settled on that name

I’m surprised ppl don’t like Dany III. It sets up the large number of enemies Dany will have to face, along with beginning the slow burn siege of Meereen. And it shows how the world economy has been impacted by Dany’s disruption of the slave trade. Also presents an interesting insight on the effects and difficulties of disrupting an economic model and trying to replace it with another nascent one.

I’m getting so excited for Winds, I’ve been a fan for so long I feel like I’ve grown up with these books and the thought of finally having something new after years and years of forcing myself to pretend like it’ll never happen is overwhelming. I’m FIGHTING to gaslight myself these days 😭

I find it interesting how all of the chapters mentioned are related to Essos in some sense haha. Personally, the Theon chapters are my favourites, they're so good.

George is just messing with us at this point and we are going back and forth between it is so over and we are so back. I think he is very nearly done with Winds and is getting an anouncement ready which is why he is being so active, but he also wants his big anouncement, but this couls also very well be some cope/hope from me

The thing that really sells me on Martin’s writing isn’t the story, but his way he makes me do an unspoken awe and shake while reading. For that reason along Davos’ last chapter is easily my favorite

fun video. more chapter breakdowns please. nice haikus :)

Dance was definitely my second favourite book after Storm of Swords. After AFFC, which I’ll admit was a struggle for me, Dance was so exciting. Some of my favourite characters returned, some really exciting plot progression, and omg “After the Feast” was so exciting when the pace really picked up and the two books sewed back together. You really got the sense that Feast and Dance were meant to be one book (even if some of the big battles were saved for Winds). I’m optimistic for Winds this year (and screw it, for ADOS too). We shall see! Also absolutely loving this channel. I completely forgot about/totally missed so much from the books so watching these is a joy and will be great pre winds. Was gonna do a full series re-read before Winds but if it ends up being this year I might leave it and save that for ADOS (which again I’m optimistic about, I truly believe that if Winds comes out this year we’ll get Dream in 5-7 years tops - maybe that’s hopium but if this book is setup for the end then I do think Martin will zoom to that ending)

Quinn 24 CONFIRMED??? 2+4=6 “The Winds of Winter” is gonna be the 6th book of the series! Is Quinn’s age the key to when winds is coming out????!!!

I like the dantesque description of astapor in Quentyn's memory in the windblown. Furthermore, this one determines the position and the ways (and the nickname) of Quentyn situation, so... Is kinda a needed one... I don't know

My favourite chapter in The Dance gotta be the last Victarion's chapter. Victarion and Moqorro have this amazing dynamic of two fanatics to two malicious gods who seem to be the opposite of each other but in the same time so similar (maybe one and the same). U dont really know if Moqorro is a prisoner of Victarion or if it is the other way around. The two are like the yin yang of villainy, evil uncle Iroh and Zuko. They are straight forward but incredibly well written villains.

I love Jon II from DWD, will always be my favourite chapter

You have become a Dance enjoyer too now it seems. On my first read of the series this was my second least favourite, but every time I read it, it just grows more and more on me. The characterwork is just that good, and the action setpieces and climaxes at the end - just top notch

The dragontamer is my favourite, its the only chapter where the dragons are truly terrifying monsters, fucking love everything about it.

Dance is daemon confirmed 0:45

I've always felt the reason Tyrion VII is so long is because it kind of would have been the perfect spot to end Tyrion's story in a Feast for Crows before the geographical split. It really feels like the culmination of everything Tyrion's story has been exploring thus far and leads into a 'new leg' of the journey. Volantis as a location is built up to quite substantially in Tyrion's previous chapters. We learn that Aegon and Jon Con have taken Tyrion's "advise" from his previous chapter and are heading west instead of east - setting up future events (I always felt the lost Lord would have been a great chapter 1 in Dance akin to 'the Prophet'). We are introduced to his new travelling companions, Jorah and Penny, who will be with Tyrion for the next faze of the journey. And we learn Penny wants to kill Tyrion because some people have killed her brother to try and impress Queen Cersei. This is likely the dwarf's head she examines in Cersei VIII (the head she sees in Cersei IV is clearly the priest Brienne meets in her second chapter), so we get to see the greater ramifications for her actions on Tyrion's and Penny's lives. Overall with that context in mind, I'm fine with the chapter's length, but it should have been trimmed down once it became the middle of Tyrion's story instead of the end.

Mine and no one else's favorite book.

13 years still just feeling the cold…. Quinn we need a Jon video on your recent new tWoW series :)

The thing I’m looking forward the most in TWOW is Jaime’s storyline and how would Martin write himself out of that one because in my opinion, I think this is the plot that Martin wrote himself into the corner the most. - Valonqar being Jaime which would turn him into both a kingslayer and a queenslayer is too good not to happen so Jaime must at least survived his encounter with Catelyn first. - But why would Catelyn let Jaime go back to King’s Landing again when the last time she did it, she and her son got murdered at the red wedding? And in her perspective, it was Jaime who orchestrated the whole thing (the Rains of Castamere song and “Jaime Lannister sends his regards” by Roose) and I don’t blame her to think that way because if we put ourselves into the heads of the characters in this universe, it’s not weird to think that Jaime would be able to do something like that. After all, he’s known as an oathbreaker and the Lannisters have a long history of double crossing someone else. We only think that Catelyn is wrong because we spent so much time with Jaime and Brienne. In fact, Brienne is the only person who believes that Jaime is innocent. Everyone else thought that he’s very responsible for the red wedding. Even the Freys think so. So I still find it hard to believe that Cat would let him go again. - The so-called second red wedding. It might be a bad idea for Catelyn to include Jaime in this because Jaime and Brienne could likely sabotage her plans by rescuing some Freys. Catelyn might not be a smart person but in this vengeful persona, she can’t give the Freys, Boltons and Lannisters any chance to escape from her wrath. - If the conclusion of this storyline is that Brienne has to kill Catelyn to save Jaime, then what’s the point of reviving her in the first place just to die like that? No reunion with Arya, Sansa, Bran or Rickon. No escalating tension with Jon. No sabotaging the plans of Littlefinger (which could be poetic that for a “chaos is a ladder” guy like him, Catelyn, in a version that Peter won’t find attractive anymore, becoming a chaos that he cannot climb himself out of it). Just a piece of meat with a minimal purpose to the story. - The only way that Jaime going back to King’s Landing could work after this storyline is that something must happen between the way to Catelyn’s camp that Jaime and Brienne never reach the destination and in the end, Jaime runs away. However, that also means Podrick died from it so Brienne didn’t even have to trick Jaime into coming with her in the first place when Podrick ends up dying anyway no matter what she did. I believe that Martin’s genius mind could find a way out of this but I still stand that no other storyline could give him more headaches than this one.

My favorite would probably be the most misunderstood chapter in the whole series that being Daenerys X. Least favorite is Wayward Bride. Similar to how you felt about Tyrion in Volantis it was just way too damn long of a chapter just to tell you that Stannis took over. I also just don’t find Asha’s POV to be that interesting and think she’s better suited as a side character.

Knowing how George killed off heroes and villains, there’s no way Stannis survives while Roose and Ramsay die in this Battle of Ice. Stannis will die in this and thanks to his death, Roose and Ramsay will die shortly after when they decided to drop their guards thanks to their hubris that they already won the war.

Great video! Haven’t gotten to this book in my read and it feels like it’ll be the most intimidating but I’m excited. However, I am now going to annoy you apologies: Day 1 of begging Quinn to make a video about Bran.

Your commentary, your haiku(s) 💪🏻🌻👌🏻👌🏻🐉

My 3 top favorites are Chapter 31- Melisandre Chapter 46- A goast in winterfell Chapter 57- Tyrion In reality i love all of the theon chapters and and everything dealing with Yezzan. The sacrifice chapter was really good and would be on the list but its top 3. Chapter 31 shows the humanity of melisandre and the reality of her belief. She give first hand knowledge on magic and its cost. We also learn just how fickle prophecy can be. Chapter 46 is my absolute favorite because it is a mini mystery story. Chapter 57 deals with the death of Yezzan and we learn he is not as bad as some would portray him to be. Also it has extreme dysentery and how sickness hits an army.

you are so wrong about tyrions story in ADWD its actually crazy ngl

I bought this book the day it came out, just give me something for the pain and let me die

The book is now old enough to drink beer here in germany🎉

I was thirteen when the spanish box set was gifted to me around Christmas of 2014. Such warm memories, those were my Winterfell days. I can't help but keep hoping that 10 years later, I can get back into that magical crazy world. Edit: it's a bad translation, but the covers are way, way better than the old english edition, an, in my opinión, this new box set edition.

This book is now roughly the same age I was when I read it. Ouch

I'm rooting for Martin and I still have hope, but I can also feel it dwindling, to be honest. In 2022 he said he had 1100-1200 (manuscript) pages. In November 2023 he said the same, with 400-500 pages to go. Unless he either lied about it or put in a lot more effort than the previous years, I think it unlikely we will get an announcement any time soon. He actively tried to put a stop to people's speculations about a speedy release of WoW for a reason. He's just not done yet, probably not even close. I believe he's just being honest. so we don't get our hopes up and then scold him when he doesn't announce it at Worldcon. On antoher note, the next election in the US might take the country down a very dark path, one that Martin would absolutely hate. He's not a young man anymore, the world is going to shit, he's lost a lot of friends over the last couple of years and covid was a really bad time for him. I don't see him finishing WoW in fascist America, should D. T. win.

Recently have read past that, Kevan is mentioned from Aryas POV when Tywin is leaving Harrenhal. And Arya realizing she should have given their names to Jaqen.

Brother you read the blog of George He kinda makes concrete the book Or is just good BAIT 😂 Plus i think the prophecy of the song of ice and fire from HOTD could be for THIS BOOK INSTEAD OF GOT tv show lmaooo The book that was promised

That Meerenese Knot is a doozy

My favorite chapters in Dance are Bran's and Theon's and my number 1 favorite chapter in the book is Bran III. Bran II is also really great with him meeting Bloodraven. But Bran III has so much in it about magic, Bloodraven, the Children, and especially all those weirwood visions of the past - beautifully written and so much info, especially with what is hinted with the oldest scene he sees at the end. Overall I like North chapters in the Dance better than the Essos chapters. Theon's chapters are some of the best stuff in the series. I love his last one in particular. Other than those, Cersei's chapter is strong, Victation's chapters are hilarious, I loved getting Melisandre's POV, JonCon was interesting too, and while Dany's chapters are hit and miss, her last chapter has some of GRRM's most beautiful and emotional writing when she's having a hallucination of Viserys.

“It’s been 84 years”

Even before I started playing the video there was one thing I knew for certain: your most favourite chapter is not the one in which Daenerys has explosive diarrhea in the grass sea. That's nobody's favourite chapter. Nobody's.

Okay so he basically said that he's not going to post WoW on his notablog and it's going to be a big announcement. Big Secret Announcement is my personal takeaway. Big Upcoming Secret Announcement.

One way or another, I think once WorldCon happens, I think the fandom will probably get their answer. Fresh off the heels of HOTD and knowing his previous joking statement will definitely be thought of, it’s the perfect storm

I dont even really like Dance but for me Theon in the ruins of Winterfell is the peak of ASOIAF

Dude Theon is the best POV in dance, any of his chapters is the best chapter on the book

Those are the best covers, the Spanish editions from Gigamesh, art by Corominas ❤❤

3:58 Kevan has appeared in clash The only one he isn't in is Game but he is mentioned.

I love Tyrion VII just because it makes me feel so immersed, if i put on like ambient walking noises i straight up feel like I'm walking right alongside them in the chapter

dear lord this last segment is the most unhinged thing ive seen in a while

I am GAGGED that Griffin Reborn isn't number 1.

I would love more haikus of ASOIAF chapters.

What??? I personally love the Windblown chapter, especially the details of the second sack of Astapor & getting a POV into the Yunkish side of the war between them & Dany.

Why do you think Martin stated that he will not be in the writers room for season 3 of HOTD? Do you think he’s given up because of all the changes?

Am I the only one who thinks A Dance with Dragons should have been called Fire and Blood, and Fire and Blood should have been called A Dance With Dragons?

Drake is reading the series as we speak

Honourable mention for best chapter must go to _any_ of the Victarion chapters, where old dumb-as-a-stump is having the best time of his life ... BUT ... only if listened to on audiobook - seriously, Roy Dotrice came up with a voice for Victarion that's unique to the character (unlike a lot of his other voices which he recycles among several characters) and it's not the voice I'd ever imagined for Victarion but now I can't imagine it any other way. Plus, Victarion's chapter are just filled with banger quotes, elevated to a whole other level when said in the Dotrice voice; including gems such as _"The most beautiful woman in the world has urgent need of my axe"_ and _"On wings of song I fly to you, Daenerys"_ and the incomparable _"But first I will tie you over the rail and make the crew a gift of your arse"_

You said GRRM’s blogpost would be linked in the description but it’s not there

I REFUSE to apologize, ADWD’s prologue is in my top 3 of the series, maybe #1 Its just great I love the warg lore, and some beautifully painted scenes by GRRM, Varamyr’s transition to 2nd life, its awesome

The North Remembers

I liked the Windblown chapter. It introduced one of my favorite characters not in the GOT series, the Tattered Prince. I wonder what direction George R. Martin will go with his character in Winds of Winter.

I turned 12 about 2 weeks later on July 25

Can we at least get the illustrated editions of Feast and Dance so I can have all 5 pub’d Bantam books??? Having only 3 is annoying. Such beautiful books.

maybe this is gonna be an unpopular opinion, but I think it kind of makes sense if world con doesn’t give George a panel because realistically the only question people are going to want to ask and know the answer to is, when is the winds of winter coming out? and any question other than that one gets asked its going to be met with some form of annoyance or little concern. So I think it makes sense for world con to kind of hold out on George and not give him his spotlight because questions and responses will be mixed and repetitive, plus maybe they think it’ll hold him accountable 🤷🏼‍♀️ just a game theory tho

I loved Dany 3 with the Qartheen declaring war

Would you read Feast and Dance each chapter chronologically?

AFFC clears

And it's funny a barristan chapter ranked higher than such popular acclaimed chapters such as bran III, Jon XIII, Dany IX, Theon, and Cersei II

Our main hopeium for Winds comes from the fact that we're a Fromsoftware fan that came into this series from Elden Ring. And Elden Ring got it's DLC last month... just like how HotD season 2 came out last month... Just saying... just hoping... (for an Elden Ring x Winds of Winter update pls pls pls pls pls 🙏🙏🙏)

5:10 this may have been the chapter where i just started skipping danny chapters

Him saying it’s miscommunication is a complete lie, I’m sorry. He was advised as soon as he got in contact that he had to complete a form the same as everyone else, he did not do so. As someone from Glasgow I’d have loved to attend a panel with him, but I also love that they made him follow the same process as anyone else.

You and I have the same favorite and least favorite chapter, but honestly I could say any of Quentyn's chapters are my least favorite

I so don't agree about The Windblown, I think after The Dragontamer it's Quentyn's second best chapter. Sure, the worldbuilding is a bit redundant with what we've seen from other POV characters in Essos but a) that's much more the case in The Merchant's Man than it is here, and b) I don't agree at all that bringing the reader up to speed is the purpose of this chapter. The Windblown is really interesting to me because it's a battle sequence that isn't written like any of the others in the series. Instead of focusing on the action and the tension the characters are feeling, the focus is on the aftermath and how Quentyn is traumatized and sickened by all of it. Quentyn's arc begins with the quote "Adventure stank", which summarizes it's overall themes of subverting the traditional fantasy quest to travel far and wide, tame dragons, battle armies, and woo princesses, this chapter is essential in compounding on that theme by showing us how someone like Quentyn, someone fairly ordinary and not any kind of archetypical fantasy hero, deals with being thrust into a warzone. It's ugly, it's messy, it's nauseating, and I'm sorry you don't love that chapter like I do.

Like the video, but I sadly must inform you that you are wrong about The Windblown. It's actually a pretty good chapter.

Life got in the way? Life? You're a youtuber, a nerd and a Jon Con enjoyer, you're not supposed to have a life 😅. All joking aside, I completely agree with your ranking!

Dance is better than storm good to see quinn came round Also winds isnt coming

I'm a firm believer that GRRM desperately wanted a panel at WorldsCon because he wanted to announce TWoW there. Copium.

Give me something for the pain..and let me die............