Finished the first half of a Fest for Crowns and so far it was a bit meh. Not bad but not really amazing and the whole story was a bit hurt a lot by the fact that the characters with the most interesting status quo changes havent showed up yet. Stupid ass decision, I want to know whats going on in Essos so dearly.
In regards of the interlude Characters, I dont see the point. For now, most the time it was Victarion Greyjoy, so whats the matter for not making him a real POV character? Most of these were even unncessary, they could have just went with Yara. The Dorne Plot is still building up but is already feeling more interesting the the one from the show. Also I am curious of some weird ass decision like changing the Sansa chapters to Alanya Chapters. I know what he wants to with this change, I even noticed the sudden change back to Sansa when she remembered back to Winterfell shortly before the Lords of the declaration came to the Eyrie but its a bit weird to say at last. In the last two books, I didnt enjoyed the Arya parts much, it felt like her journey didnt had much meat and thought her parts were the most boring, but since she went to Braavos and joined the faceless man, its somewhat interesting, and may it just be because the whole tempel is IMO different enough from the show to get my attention.
The most interesting parts where the Cercei chapters. In the show, at some point she went just full evil and became a bit comicbookish, but I enjoy the introperspective on her and the realization, that she just became super fucking paranoid after Tywin died. I still dont like her at all, but I cheer whenever I get to a chapter of her.