This is Game of Thrones as written by a hyperactive fourteen-year-old on crack cocaine. The cast grows to 50+ characters over the course of the first three volumes (despite several being killed off for good), and half of them are cunning politicians all backstabbing each other in more and more convoluted schemes while the other half consist of figures like "Alus the autistic three-armed wyvern gunslinger who fights dragons with his lightsaber" and other such over-the-top nonsense. Reading it requires a degree of patience and comprehension (being able to follow back-and-forth dialogue helps), and a certain taste for both the intrigue and the crazy action. Follow along, however, and it rewards you: each of the five light novel volumes so far has improved upon the last, and I'm greatly looking forward to the next.
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