I agee. I care for Arya, but many of his characters, I could live without. Sansa's main problem is that we keep waiting for her to get mad and take control of her stiuation -- or at least attempt to -- she hasn't done a blessed thing yet. And his apparent excuse that she's a sheltered little girl doesn't work, since he repeatedly says all the Starks we raused to be a bit tough. And he seems to have completely forgotten about the littlest Stark (Was his name Roddy? After two whole books without him, I can't remember.)

And franky, the only adult characters I care about are Tyrion (though I do wish at least he Starks would realize he's on their side -- or wanted to be) Baelish and Littlefinger. (Or are they the same person? It's been so long...)

Perhaps he should have toned down the gore and incest and written it as YA?