After too much of LKH and other such 'authors', a friend recommended Martin's series and it saved my love of books. It's the perfect antidote- sex that is part of the plot, and no on is safe from Death and Suffering. I never thought I'd be so glad to have an author kill off a favorite character just because it was so refreshing that it could happen. I'd wait for as long as LKH needed to come up with a decent Merry or Anita book. But no, she just keeps churning out those... rectangular objects she refers to as books.

Belle Morte=Andais, non? It's really all the same series now, just different names. And that is sad.