I have to say that I have truly enjoyed the last 3 books of the series and was really looking forward to reading book four to see how my favorite characters come out from the last book. Sad for me and many other readers to discover that this book was not going to answer many of my burning questions. I personally was very disappointed to have to read so many chapters about Cersi and all her crazy that went along with it. The Sam chapters were OK, but during the entire time that i was reading this book, I found myself only really enjoying the Brianne and Jamie chapters...go figure. It took me much longer to read, and I have to say that I was pretty relieved when it was finally finished. Not to say that there weren't parts that I enjoyed, I personally just didn't think it was a good as the other 3.
I have already started reading A Dance with Dragons and hold high hope that it will be much more entertaining than this one. I still love the series and GRRM, I guess everything can't be totally awesome all the time.
