This article contains major spoilers forGame of Thronesseason 6.
WhenGame of Thronesseason 6 started airing, book readers were faced with a dilemma.
If youre reading this article, were assuming you chose to go ahead and watch the series.
But where exactly does season 6 leave us book readers?
Just how much ofThe Winds of WinterandA Dream of SpringhasGame Of Thronesseason 6 spoiled?
Benioff and Weiss have confirmed that George R.R.
Martin told them the story and they folded it into the series more or less as is.
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Were also going to put (R+)L=J here.
Oh yes, and Jon Snow will be resurrected.
But really, do we think anything else is at all likely?
He wanted to do that at the end ofA Dance With Dragonsanyway.
Things may not go down in quite the same way in the books.
Danaerys will take over hordes of Dothraki and finally set sail to conquer Westeros.
Tyrion Lannister will be one of Danys closest advisors.
Theyre in such tantalisingly close geographical proximity at the moment that this is surely a matter of time.
It depends partly on whats going to happen with Eurons horn (see below).
But we suspect that the chances of Book Sansa ending up at Winterfell any time soon are fairly slim.
It seems likely that the TV versions are heading, eventually, to the same place.
One plot thread were reluctant to commit to one way or the other is that of Rickon Stark.
But exactly what happens to Rickon may yet be quite different.
We suspect Rickons story in the books will look quite different to the way it played out here.
He might actually get some lines in, for a start.
Perhaps Book Eurons horn wont work as well as he hopes it will?
It seems more than likely that the books are taking us towards the same place.
And yet in the middle of it all, Littlefinger and Varys remain enigmas.
