Sarah Thoughts: A Song of Ice and Fire is one of my top 5 series ever. Even if you don’t love high fantasy and didn’t like Lord of the Rings, try ASOIAF. It’s got it all - and by this, Book 3, the story is really cooking. Idiot Baby King Joffrey is being a sadistic monster, grouchy Uncle Stannis is plotting his next move with his Red Lady Magician, Danaerys has to beg some desert fortress city dwellers to let her and her ragtag band of Dothraki and dragons to let them in so she doesn’t die in the Red Waste. Fun! Danger! Wildlings! Ice zombies! Teenage Robb Stark lays a beat down on mob boss Tywin Lannister’s armies and Tyrion hits his groove. Why aren’t you reading this right now?
Goodreads: 4.55/5
Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...
Note: There is some minor curling along cover edges.
Sarah Thoughts: A Song of Ice and Fire is one of my top 5 series ever. Even if you don’t love high fantasy and didn’t like Lord of the Rings, try ASOIAF. It’s got it all - and by this, Book 3, the story is really cooking. Idiot Baby King Joffrey is being a sadistic monster, grouchy Uncle Stannis is plotting his next move with his Red Lady Magician, Danaerys has to beg some desert fortress city dwellers to let her and her ragtag band of Dothraki and dragons to let them in so she doesn’t die in the Red Waste. Fun! Danger! Wildlings! Ice zombies! Teenage Robb Stark lays a beat down on mob boss Tywin Lannister’s armies and Tyrion hits his groove. Why aren’t you reading this right now?
Goodreads: 4.55/5
Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...
Note: There is some minor curling along cover edges.
ISBN: 9780553381702
