Need Help Picking a Book

[Tal]

Fine, fine, I'd plead guilty to oversimplification, but not guilty to any other charge.

I've definately left out intervening steps such as (spoilers I guess?): paralysis (leading to animalistic link), poisoning (leading to death), marriage (repeatedly leading to death), blindness (cliffhanger), motherhood (then widowhood, coronation, and cliffhanger), death (then undeath), loss of vassals, gain of vassals, etc.

Maybe a reread would be worthwhile, but I don't have space in my reading list at the moment.

I really don't want to give out any spoilers to anyone else reading this who hasn't read the series. Death is a certainty in life - George R. R. Martin's series doesn't flinch from that. But there are consequences in the series that the characters themselves view as worse than death.