A Storm of Swords

Probably the best in the series so far. I had started this before but stopped about halfway through when I grew tired of GRRM's tendency to simply use the death of one of his plentiful main characters to move the plot along. That being said, I did come back to this one and did enjoy the book, but simply needed time away from GRRM's world since reading the first two in quick succession and half of the third as such.