first chapter with Melisandre. And the book is sloow, feeling a bit like - if not exactly like - padding. Does it get any better? At this point, Jorah Mormont is taking Tyrion (or trying to take Tyrion) to Meereen, Daenerys is struggling to control her dragons, Arya has not been seen or presented as yet; it's all very bloody and I really enjoyed it for the first couple of hundred pages but everything for the last two hundred has felt irrelevant and dull. I am half seriously thinking of leaving it for a while.