Back after a very long absence! Cant believe I've only written one review in nearly 2 years! Anyway ...
Back after a very long absence! Cant believe I've only written one review in nearly 2 years! Anyway back now and hope to be reading, rating and writing lots!
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Hi all chaps! Due to Ciaos fantastic technical skills when the database was changed the category for A Song of Ice and Fire Book 1 disappeared and it ended up in the category for Book 3,
I'd be grateful therefore if you could take absolutely no notice of this review, and rate accordingly, i.e DONT!!
Cheers
Emma
I discovered George R.R.Martin when browsing through my local W.H. Smiths and it was on offer, as a huge fan of Eddings, Feist, Gemmell, etc. I decided to give it a go. I am now hooked on the whole series!
The book itself is written in an extremely original and innovative style. Rather than focusing on one character and their interaction with others, it takes one character a chapter and go's through their adventures. There is Lord Eddard Stark, the warden of the North, his wife Catelyn and their children, Rickon,Robb, Bran, Arya and Sansa who is to marry the incest-gotten, half-mad Prince Joffrey. Arya, Eddard and Sansa travel to Casterly Rock for Sansas wedding where Eddard is betrayed. To tell you more would spoil the story!!
Other characters include Tyrion Lannister, the hunchback deformed uncle of Joffrey. The Targaryen siblings who are obsessed with their Dragonstone and Dragon family. (for all you die-hard fans out there, there are indeed a couple of dragons!)
These are the main characters who's adventures you discuss, but there are lots more that you encounter. Martins story-telling is fantastic and the break up of the characters into seperate chapters make for compulsive reading, a real page turner. You do really get a feel for the characters. My personal favourites include Arya and Bran.
It is a true fantasy novel, knights and fighting, supernatural happenings, betrayal, mad kings and of course, dragons!
You have to be aware however, that even though it is good as a story in itself, it is part of a series so it will cost you a few more pounds to get to the end of the story. I am currently waiting for Book Three, Part Two of A Song of Fire and Ice and if its as good as the other 3 I wont be disappointed.
A must for all good fantasy fans!
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I am sorry but your review is about the first book [Game of Thrones]. This page is about the third book. Some of the characters you mention in your review are long dead.
Gildor_Inglorion 01.10.2003 18:30
This really is a great book though i'm about to post an op on the second part of ASOS, which is the best book of the series so far! IMO
Advantages: You won't want to stop reading and you will want to read it again. Disadvantages: You shouldn't read it without reading books 1 and 2 first.
Advantages: You won't want to stop reading and you will want to read it again. Disadvantages: You shouldn't read it without reading books 1 and 2 first.
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