I've just fished book 1 and skipped several parapraphs to fish the sequels.It's decently written,nevertheless,there is very little actual fantasy in this series.Besides,it has no explict plot and seems to be endless.(there're alread 4 in this series and the fifth seems never to come.Even the 5th will be available this year,very likely one or two books needed to conclude the series).Here are some excuses used by George R.R. for years :"My computer crashed and I didn't have a back-up, I lost the whole novel," or "I finish Dance with Dragons, but it was 2000 pages long and I realized I need to cut out 1000 pages." I wonder who belives this .
Bloodshed,cruelty ,treason and death are not the reason not to read a novel but he keeps chopping off better characters that after the first couble book I lost my interest in the rest.