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I think the main reason people have an issue with the fourth book is that the ending of the third book is great, but then three of the main characters and their story lines just don't show up at all in the fourth book (weird choice by GRRM), so if you go straight into it from book 3 wanting to find out what happens next with those characters and don't realize that they aren't in the book atl all (like I did), it gets frustrating.
But if you know it going in and are mentally prepared for that, and you have the fifth book to read once you are done with the fourth so that you can pick those storylines back up, it is not so bad and you can enjoy the fourth book more. I liked it better on a re-read for that reason, because then you can really focus on all the interesting details and the characters that are focused on in the fourth book.
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