Game of Thrones - 7 years ago today

[NewJeffCT]

3. On Westeros.org, they have a very active fan forum there

and, there was a topic that was posted there in 2013 or 2014 about what books to read while waiting for The Winds of Winter. At the time, I responded and had said that since I had noticed that another author had finished The Wheel of Time, I was going to go back to that series and give it a re-read in its entirety and that hopefully when I was done, we'd have news about The Winds of Winter.

I was so naive.

I finished Wheel of Time (I definitely recommend the audiobooks if you like that sort of thing - Michael Kramer and Kate Reading were excellent as narrators) and we still had nothing.

I had read the first several books of Wheel of Time, then quit in frustration as the books became repetitive. Then, I saw that Jordan had passed away and assumed the books would never be finished. However, it kind of clicked on me one day in a Barnes & Noble when I saw the display saying there was a new author finishing the series. I like Sanderson, but you could tell in the final 3 books that he didn't have the same style and same gift for description as Jordan.