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Saying that it's magnificent is quite short actually. There are good books, and then, there are GOOD books.

I remember, time ago, people telling me that Song of Ice and Fire is kind of a Lord of The Rings series, because of dragons and other creatures in a middle-age world. Now I would agree about the LOTR comparison, but it's far from that reason. Rather than that, I think there are similarities between both the full and exquisite narrative styles, which are seriously a thing.

But when it come to feelings.... LOTR is basicallly childish. Martin has a great ability of evoking the right feelings at the right time, plus, many of those aren't a simple as stating an "I'm sad because of... ".... there is a lot of recurssive emotional playing. There are things that one won't notice unless... he's experienced them in a way. And that... is hard, hard to master. Well, that is his 20+ years experience in writing, when the first book came out (almost 20 years ago )

Also, since he has chosen to write the story, following each one of those determined characters every chapter, Martin successfully achieves to tell what's happenning from the eyes of each one too, each perception. If it's a kid, he won't understand too many things, and he'll wonder a lot and imagine a lot. If it's an adult, he'll have a firm and decided look over the world, and story will follow another rhythm. If it's somebody crippled and used to be treated like hell, he'll have this super.twisted perception....

Another thing are crucial moments. They're left up to imagination, which is the best way out possible, since describing them is not easy - many authors fail on that, because they try to input their vision for those moments and the feeling is lost, not just every reader would agree with it right then. But here, we've got lots and lots of characters, some of them primary, some secondary, whose mission at some point of the story is to inform of those important events to other characters, as a part of the story flow, and not giving out all that information abruptly and just because. That makes the reader get his own conclusions about the important events and imagine on it's own how they developed. (this is actually one of the magic of learning in literature)

And finally, symbolisms are always present, and they're just like hidden gems. The crows ones are probably the best.

Also, O think there's no need to tell the all the characters are really really well done.

By the way, so far... Bran is being one of my favourites
And I've got a feeling that Sansa will develop into somebody incredible... at the right time