Oops..I hope I didn't spoil you in my last response. I can't figure out where you are in the text. And it does not help that I can't remember in exactly what order some of these things happened.

I skimmed ahead too...I kept worrying about Arya and Tyrion. I did the same thing in Clash and Game. Also you get really bogged down
in some of the pov's, George RR Martin has this insane desire to tell you everything.