Book: A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin

(Part 2, here)

Book Three of A Song of Ice and Fire receives the ball from the previous two books and just runs with it. You would have thought that after four books (as this book was actually split into two volumes) you would get used to the pace, twists and turns of Westoros, but no, I can think of at least three times that I was physically left breathless while reading - something that rarely happens when checking out any media. You know you're reading something good when you literally have to put it down to recover.

But anyway, I feel like I'm wasting time writing when I could be reading. And you should too.