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Originally Posted by MagicHef
I'm no literary savant, what is it about the Stoneheart storyline that is poor writing? I personally love how her personality shift isn't as big as it seems and can be explained simply by her believing that her entire family is dead.
At first glance, she seems to be an entirely different character when she rises, but the difference between protective mother and murderous monster for her is simply having a family to protect.
IMO, of course.
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I guess, to me, it just reads as GRRM having second thoughts about killing off all those characters at the Red Wedding, so he found a way to bring one back. But the one he brings back isn't really anything like she was before, even though all the previous resurrected characters we've seen resurrected by a Red Priest have basically been the same, personality wise.
On top of that, as someone else said, it spins off another subplot that doesn't really seem to be moving toward anything and just complicates the story, and that's happening at the time in the series when the author needs to be bringing things in tighter and toward a conclusion.
I think that's my main complaint with a LOT of it, though. When (to me) it feels like he needs to be tightening things up, instead he's just spinning off new plot threads left and right.