[Hanni]

Even with Arya, maybe it was just the way I read it, I thought she was dead. Taking an axe to the back of the head lead me to that assumption, then when it turned out to be the flat of the axe I felt screwed with. Like Martin wrote it that way so that you would think she's dead just to mess with the reader. Which is fine, but when you kill off major characters, and pretty much exclusively protagonists, and then throw in a couple fake deaths, it desensitizes the reader. I still really enjoy the books, but I have stopped caring about the characters to the point where when Jon got stabbed I thought big surprise, one of the few characters left I like is probably dead, or maybe not and I don't really care.