Yeah I've heard similar sentiments about the later books. Guess I'll have to see for myself.
Though I will say, the structure of the third book is a little infuriating. He seems to mount tension, then immediately break it by flashing back to incredibly dull scenes of an old guy sipping tea with his son. It's pretty obvious to me he churned these books out without a second glance at the manuscript, since he put out the first three in... What... Two years' time?
Yeah I've heard similar sentiments about the later books. Guess I'll have to see for myself.
Though I will say, the structure of the third book is a little infuriating. He seems to mount tension, then immediately break it by flashing back to incredibly dull scenes of an old guy sipping tea with his son. It's pretty obvious to me he churned these books out without a second glance at the manuscript, since he put out the first three in... What... Two years' time?
It just keeps going downhill.
The books of the north are a complete story, more or less. Don't press on and you'll never need to know how much worse it got.