Last week GRRM posted a sample chapter from the future ASOIAF 6th book, The Winds of Winter, on his Website,
here. DO NOT open that link if you have not finished A Dance With Dragons. The character title alone is a huge spoiler.
After reading that excerpt I have to wonder how does that overlap with the final events of ADWD. It was nice to read about those characters again and know just a little bit more or how (bad) they are doing. Because so far in this world things can only get worse, in a way that turns every reader into a Dolorous Edd, always negative, never positive.
I am hoping things will look up from the 6th on, dammit.
P.S.: Happy New Year everybody! ---> Late and lazy.