As the rating suggests, and despite everything I'll say past this point, I definitely liked what actually was in this book. However, what's missing from it would be enough for another Song of Ice and Fire. Even worse than in the first volume, potentially important characters are barely even mentioned and secondary ones may be introduced and then completely forgotten, entire storylines are reduced to mere glimpses, major plot points may either be limited to a quick presentation of their conclusions or, quite the contrary, completely lack them, and when the time comes to skip forward, the readers are largely left to figure out what happened in the missing years on their own.
I'll say that the author seemed in more of a rush to see the end than the reader would be expected to be. Worse, whether due to lack of skill or lack of will, this haste doesn't merely result in compressed action, but often in completely skipped action. Add the fact that some moments are overly simplified, some timing and editing issues and the countless loose ends left after the last page, and I'll say that this series has the potential to offer a lifetime of work to anyone who'd want to fill in the blanks and flesh it out better... And perhaps somebody should do that if the author himself won't, because it seems to me that it had the potential to become one of the best fantasy series ever written, which makes it even more of a pity that most of it is missing.