Reading A Storm of Swords. The third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series.

Martin has built an extraordinarily complex world in terms of myth, history, characters, and plots.

One thing that peeves me is how it seems like every woman who fights (and the books being relatively realistically set (aside from the magic and whatnot) in medieval times, this is a small number) being described as ugly. Not fair or average, but ugly.

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