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salineaYou know, with A Feast For Crow being there any days now, I'm realizing something. Something grave and daunting. There's much too few people on my flist who are into A Song of Ice and Fire. Much too few. Oh of course, I've got at least three friends from my ancient ASOIAF fandom days, and all my exalted buddies I convinced to read it. And there must be a couple of others, surely (surely ?) But, given the amount of squeeing and rabid fangirling and possibly random analysis after each chapter (if I manage myself to stop reading, unlikely as it is) I'm planning on doing, this is much too little.
And of course I always love to share my joy at reading book by reccomanding them to my friends and to innocent bystanders. So I think it's time for some unabashed advertisment and review.
Hear, hear :
Why A song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martins is the best fantasy serie
and why YOU should read it now
Présentation
There's three volumes out : A Game of Throne, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Sword, and the soon to be released a Feast For Crows.
There's a likely total of seven books planned for the entire serie, so we're midway through it.
The story takes place in the land of Westeros called the Seven Kingdoms. Three centuries ago, those seven kingdoms, and their seven kings, were conquered and united by the Targaryens with the help of the three dragons they'd brought with them. However, fifteen years before the beginning of the book, dragons were long the stuff of myth when the last Targaryen king, the mad Aerys was killed to put an end to his folly and murders. Of their line, only the prince Viserys nicknamed the Beggar King, and his sister Daenarys remain, exiled in exotic lands.
This is world where seasons may last several years, and where a long summer is finally drawing at end. In the harsh, isolated northernest part of the Seven Kingdom the Stark family word, grim and daunting, is "Winter is coming". Eddard Stark has a reputation for being a sternly honourable man, and he certainly raised his five children, and his bastard child John Snow, with honour in mind. The story starts with his family being visited by the current king since the upraising and his old childhood friend Robert Baratheon. In his baggage he's bringing the wealthy and powerful Lannisters, of whom he wed the sister Cersei. There's a certain distrust between the Starks and the Lannisters, dating from the war. Jaime Lannister certainly earned quite an infamous reputation when he murdered former king Aerys despite having been part of the sacred knight guard sworn to protect the king. Tyrion Lannister his younger brother is mocked as the "Imp" for being a dwarf.
Back in the capital of King's Landing Jon Arryn who was Hand of the King, the leader of the Small Council that helps ruling the country, has died in suspicious circumstances. Robert Baratheon came to ask his old friend to replace him, to come all the way south to become to new Hand. Eddard can bring his daughters with him at court, they'll betroth Sansa Stark to Robert's elder son Joffrey. And meanwhile, he may investigate over the circumstances of Jon Arryn's death.
Beyond the Stark's northern fronteers, there's wild lands where strange creatures of old still live. It's also a place where Wildlings and savage men survive. A huge, millenia old Wall and the Night's Guard of men sworn to guard it, have always been protecting this border. From raids and sacking from the Wildlings, but also from the Others of old legends. But surely, those old woman's tales are no longuer of any relevance, are they ?
Setting and mood
As fantasy goes, ASOIAF has a rather classical, comfortably medieval setting. Mind you, it's a more informed, detailed, crudely realistic medieval setting than you'll find in most fantasy. One of the main inspiration is the War of the Roses, and in many ways it'll remind you more of Shaekspeare than of Tolkien.
ASOIAF is dark, unabashedly so. If seeing your favourite character getting killed turns you off reading a book definitly, don't read this one. If you like the grittiness however, and if you like epic battles, deadly sharp intrigues and more than everything wonderfully ambiguous characterization, you WANT to read it.
However, ASOIAF isn't the Black Compagny. It's not all cynical humour and grim situations. It's got also lyrism, beautifully haunting lines, idealist and honourable characters. And they don't even all get killed. :) Thing is, in this books, the dilemnas displayed will be honour against loyalty, survival against compassion, love against duty. Some characters, a whole score of character, are so complexely drawn no one will agree whether they're more or less the heroes or villains of the play. And that's not because you don't know their true loyalties, just because as they struggle to make their choices in a complex (and deadly) world, you'll learn to either sympathize with them as they do horrible acts for the sake of something they hold dear, admire their courage and wit no matter how ruthless, or instead loath the very reasons they use to justify. This is the only book where I can name a character I truly detest. This is also the only book where I can name a character I genuinely adore despite the fact he pushed a 8 years old child from a tower window so as to protect his very traitorous sexual relationship for his own sister. Be prepare to be challenged. I'm sure you'll find someone to root for, but I hardly think anyone is shown as the righteous party thay should by all accounts win.
Magic isn't something you'll meet casually in this serie. It's not inexistent either, but it's of a suspicious, half charlatanery, half religion, nature. It's also good for great, eery foreshadowing, very symbolical, and will always come at a deear price. There's magic still, and wonder, rare enough that when it is there, it's got a great effect of awe. If you dislike prophecy gimmicks as much as I do, this is also a book you'll love. Prophecies, in this book, can definitly be destroyed as easily as it is to murder a child.
Plot
The plot is possibly the part that Martins masters the most skillfully. The cast is rather huge (you'll be thankful for the annexes provided at the end of the volumes if you want to follow the smallest threads) and Martins makes a very clever use of the twists and ties of family relationships among noble houses. Hints given in the first book can be relevant to unknotting an intrigue two volumes after. There's only very few failures of consistencies. If you like complaining about the lack of coherence in one writer's world building and plot threading, i'm afraid you'll find few things to whine about. Twists come, fast-paced and logical in a way that makes you think "I should have foreseen this !". Actions reap consequences, and don't expect Deus Ex Machina.
There's intrigues, lots of lovely, intricate, treacherous intrigues. There's battles. There's devious bastards and badass fighters. There's also lots of seemingly weak characters who do nonetheless trick their ways to survival. There's alliances betweens characters who were ennemies, there's betrayals. There's unlikely friendship. There's act of courage and daring that manage to reap victory back from the edge... or not. There's duels, Trial by combat. It's a book that is overall very hard to put down by the side of the table. It's also a story that is very rewarding to follow and analyze in details for clues about what really happened, or what could likely happen. Theories abound, and it's a lovely thing to debate about with a friend.
Style
George Martins doesn't usually go for the too outrageously dramatic or lyrical. However, in an understated, wry, cutting fashion, he's got a gift for carving lines that you'll usually remember long after closing the book, this I can promise to you.
It's the one serie for which I've got a txt file full of goodie quotes.
Some of them are terribly humourour, though more often than not the humour is a darker tone. There's lots of characters with ready wit and a sharp tongue to make you laugh with delight or grin with appreciation to sarcasm (especially Tyrion Lannister, who, by personnality and demeanour reminds me a LOT of darker, less idealist Miles Vorkosigan)
There's also some lines that beautiful and haunting, and very poetic. I think everyone will agree that in general, Martins is very good at evoquing an appropriate mood suiting his setting and plot. The descriptions are vivid and detailed. The names in the text are often simple but acutely fitting. The dialogues are extremely good.
Characters
As I said before, there's lots of characters, however don't be afraid of remembering keenly the mains ones. They tend to make a vivd impressions.
As I've said before, there's a lot of ambiguity in the characterization. However, do not fear that they are all dark, cynical characters. There's definitly a fair share of rather innocent and likeable characters as well. Actually a fair share of the main characters are children at the beginning of the book, ranging from 9 to 16 (the Stark children and Daenarys Targaryen) and they're very well written as such. Not all the characters are so lovable no matter what they do either. There's some mean, sadistic bastards all right.
It's easy to care for a lot of characters, as well as easy to despise them. They're realistic, too. And they make do with the circumstances the best they can. Sometimes to terrifying consequences. A lot of them belong to the nobility of the seven kingdoms, but less high born characters also have their importance and influence on the stories. Sellswords, whores, wise Maesters, former smugglers turned knights, barbaric Wildlings, bastard child raised as a blacksmith, and road brigands are all characters who'll also have their share. Both male and female characters are well written. Some female characters are extremely badass. Some manage to be so without ever touching to a weapon.
Romance exists, though i'd hardly say it's the highlight of the story. In many ways, love is shown to be as often as not a bad idea, and possibly something that draws the worst out of people as well as the best. It's a serie where "the things I do for love" brings some definite chilling overtones. Sometimes, howevers, it's redeeming. It brings hope and light in the most damning darkness. There's some relationships between characters that will totally pull you in for their intensities. George Martins spent years writing for Beauty and the Beast, and it shows, it's one of the theme you'll find often (with twists, oh so lovely twists) And, did I mention there's canon gay ?
Conclusion
All right, I hope I haven't been to sleep-inducing and that i've convinced you and you've already ordered your own book on Amazon. ^_^ I promise you won't regret it... in all likelyhood.
And of course I always love to share my joy at reading book by reccomanding them to my friends and to innocent bystanders. So I think it's time for some unabashed advertisment and review.
Hear, hear :
Why A song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martins is the best fantasy serie
and why YOU should read it now
Présentation
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
There's three volumes out : A Game of Throne, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Sword, and the soon to be released a Feast For Crows.
There's a likely total of seven books planned for the entire serie, so we're midway through it.
The story takes place in the land of Westeros called the Seven Kingdoms. Three centuries ago, those seven kingdoms, and their seven kings, were conquered and united by the Targaryens with the help of the three dragons they'd brought with them. However, fifteen years before the beginning of the book, dragons were long the stuff of myth when the last Targaryen king, the mad Aerys was killed to put an end to his folly and murders. Of their line, only the prince Viserys nicknamed the Beggar King, and his sister Daenarys remain, exiled in exotic lands.
This is world where seasons may last several years, and where a long summer is finally drawing at end. In the harsh, isolated northernest part of the Seven Kingdom the Stark family word, grim and daunting, is "Winter is coming". Eddard Stark has a reputation for being a sternly honourable man, and he certainly raised his five children, and his bastard child John Snow, with honour in mind. The story starts with his family being visited by the current king since the upraising and his old childhood friend Robert Baratheon. In his baggage he's bringing the wealthy and powerful Lannisters, of whom he wed the sister Cersei. There's a certain distrust between the Starks and the Lannisters, dating from the war. Jaime Lannister certainly earned quite an infamous reputation when he murdered former king Aerys despite having been part of the sacred knight guard sworn to protect the king. Tyrion Lannister his younger brother is mocked as the "Imp" for being a dwarf.
Back in the capital of King's Landing Jon Arryn who was Hand of the King, the leader of the Small Council that helps ruling the country, has died in suspicious circumstances. Robert Baratheon came to ask his old friend to replace him, to come all the way south to become to new Hand. Eddard can bring his daughters with him at court, they'll betroth Sansa Stark to Robert's elder son Joffrey. And meanwhile, he may investigate over the circumstances of Jon Arryn's death.
Beyond the Stark's northern fronteers, there's wild lands where strange creatures of old still live. It's also a place where Wildlings and savage men survive. A huge, millenia old Wall and the Night's Guard of men sworn to guard it, have always been protecting this border. From raids and sacking from the Wildlings, but also from the Others of old legends. But surely, those old woman's tales are no longuer of any relevance, are they ?
Setting and mood
"There are no true knights, no more than there are gods. If you can't protect yourself die and get out of the way of those who can. Sharp steel and strong arms rule this world, don't ever believe any different"
As fantasy goes, ASOIAF has a rather classical, comfortably medieval setting. Mind you, it's a more informed, detailed, crudely realistic medieval setting than you'll find in most fantasy. One of the main inspiration is the War of the Roses, and in many ways it'll remind you more of Shaekspeare than of Tolkien.
ASOIAF is dark, unabashedly so. If seeing your favourite character getting killed turns you off reading a book definitly, don't read this one. If you like the grittiness however, and if you like epic battles, deadly sharp intrigues and more than everything wonderfully ambiguous characterization, you WANT to read it.
However, ASOIAF isn't the Black Compagny. It's not all cynical humour and grim situations. It's got also lyrism, beautifully haunting lines, idealist and honourable characters. And they don't even all get killed. :) Thing is, in this books, the dilemnas displayed will be honour against loyalty, survival against compassion, love against duty. Some characters, a whole score of character, are so complexely drawn no one will agree whether they're more or less the heroes or villains of the play. And that's not because you don't know their true loyalties, just because as they struggle to make their choices in a complex (and deadly) world, you'll learn to either sympathize with them as they do horrible acts for the sake of something they hold dear, admire their courage and wit no matter how ruthless, or instead loath the very reasons they use to justify. This is the only book where I can name a character I truly detest. This is also the only book where I can name a character I genuinely adore despite the fact he pushed a 8 years old child from a tower window so as to protect his very traitorous sexual relationship for his own sister. Be prepare to be challenged. I'm sure you'll find someone to root for, but I hardly think anyone is shown as the righteous party thay should by all accounts win.
Magic isn't something you'll meet casually in this serie. It's not inexistent either, but it's of a suspicious, half charlatanery, half religion, nature. It's also good for great, eery foreshadowing, very symbolical, and will always come at a deear price. There's magic still, and wonder, rare enough that when it is there, it's got a great effect of awe. If you dislike prophecy gimmicks as much as I do, this is also a book you'll love. Prophecies, in this book, can definitly be destroyed as easily as it is to murder a child.
Plot
"I did warn you not to trust me."
The plot is possibly the part that Martins masters the most skillfully. The cast is rather huge (you'll be thankful for the annexes provided at the end of the volumes if you want to follow the smallest threads) and Martins makes a very clever use of the twists and ties of family relationships among noble houses. Hints given in the first book can be relevant to unknotting an intrigue two volumes after. There's only very few failures of consistencies. If you like complaining about the lack of coherence in one writer's world building and plot threading, i'm afraid you'll find few things to whine about. Twists come, fast-paced and logical in a way that makes you think "I should have foreseen this !". Actions reap consequences, and don't expect Deus Ex Machina.
There's intrigues, lots of lovely, intricate, treacherous intrigues. There's battles. There's devious bastards and badass fighters. There's also lots of seemingly weak characters who do nonetheless trick their ways to survival. There's alliances betweens characters who were ennemies, there's betrayals. There's unlikely friendship. There's act of courage and daring that manage to reap victory back from the edge... or not. There's duels, Trial by combat. It's a book that is overall very hard to put down by the side of the table. It's also a story that is very rewarding to follow and analyze in details for clues about what really happened, or what could likely happen. Theories abound, and it's a lovely thing to debate about with a friend.
Style
"He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood."
George Martins doesn't usually go for the too outrageously dramatic or lyrical. However, in an understated, wry, cutting fashion, he's got a gift for carving lines that you'll usually remember long after closing the book, this I can promise to you.
It's the one serie for which I've got a txt file full of goodie quotes.
Some of them are terribly humourour, though more often than not the humour is a darker tone. There's lots of characters with ready wit and a sharp tongue to make you laugh with delight or grin with appreciation to sarcasm (especially Tyrion Lannister, who, by personnality and demeanour reminds me a LOT of darker, less idealist Miles Vorkosigan)
There's also some lines that beautiful and haunting, and very poetic. I think everyone will agree that in general, Martins is very good at evoquing an appropriate mood suiting his setting and plot. The descriptions are vivid and detailed. The names in the text are often simple but acutely fitting. The dialogues are extremely good.
Characters
"Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet but I think i'd feel bad about it."
As I said before, there's lots of characters, however don't be afraid of remembering keenly the mains ones. They tend to make a vivd impressions.
As I've said before, there's a lot of ambiguity in the characterization. However, do not fear that they are all dark, cynical characters. There's definitly a fair share of rather innocent and likeable characters as well. Actually a fair share of the main characters are children at the beginning of the book, ranging from 9 to 16 (the Stark children and Daenarys Targaryen) and they're very well written as such. Not all the characters are so lovable no matter what they do either. There's some mean, sadistic bastards all right.
It's easy to care for a lot of characters, as well as easy to despise them. They're realistic, too. And they make do with the circumstances the best they can. Sometimes to terrifying consequences. A lot of them belong to the nobility of the seven kingdoms, but less high born characters also have their importance and influence on the stories. Sellswords, whores, wise Maesters, former smugglers turned knights, barbaric Wildlings, bastard child raised as a blacksmith, and road brigands are all characters who'll also have their share. Both male and female characters are well written. Some female characters are extremely badass. Some manage to be so without ever touching to a weapon.
Romance exists, though i'd hardly say it's the highlight of the story. In many ways, love is shown to be as often as not a bad idea, and possibly something that draws the worst out of people as well as the best. It's a serie where "the things I do for love" brings some definite chilling overtones. Sometimes, howevers, it's redeeming. It brings hope and light in the most damning darkness. There's some relationships between characters that will totally pull you in for their intensities. George Martins spent years writing for Beauty and the Beast, and it shows, it's one of the theme you'll find often (with twists, oh so lovely twists) And, did I mention there's canon gay ?
Conclusion
"All men must die, Jon Snow. but first we'll live"
All right, I hope I haven't been to sleep-inducing and that i've convinced you and you've already ordered your own book on Amazon. ^_^ I promise you won't regret it... in all likelyhood.
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Date: 10 October 2005 01:42 pm (UTC)Wonder if it's available around here... *will have to go looking*
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Date: 10 October 2005 01:49 pm (UTC)Actually, they're really hard to find in my city. I've tried, a lot. I found a good bookshop at Internet that has the books, and if I buy the three books together the shipping is free because the total is greater than 60 euros.
I'll have to leave that for when I actually have 75 bucks in cash. Which is, of course, not now.
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Date: 10 October 2005 01:57 pm (UTC)Good luck and patience for getting that money. *hugs*
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Date: 10 October 2005 01:58 pm (UTC)I hope you can find, or order, it. I know it's a book popular in a wide array of countries.
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Date: 10 October 2005 02:08 pm (UTC)So I'm resorting to obscure online bookstores in Spain that would let me pay through money transfer.
Unless I can find the books on eBay, but I don't want to touch that thing. They're the main reason I'm pennyless right now.
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Date: 10 October 2005 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 October 2005 02:15 pm (UTC)The friend that's going to "pay me" LJ time (aka, I send her the money and she pays with her paypal) also uses a debit card. So I think I'm screwed.
Besides, I prefer to pay things directly in the bank, and since this store lets me, that's much better ^^
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Date: 10 October 2005 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 October 2005 02:21 pm (UTC)And there are several legal issues why I can't/shouldn't have more than one bank account right now. Long story, but that means I'm screwed.
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Date: 11 October 2005 03:00 am (UTC)Or am I asking for too much info?^^
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Date: 11 October 2005 09:52 am (UTC)You're right, i've been too general. I don't want to give any spoilers.
Saying who are the main characters is difficult, because characters you were sure were important and vital to the plot tend to be killed midway.
Structurally each chapter is told from the point of view of one character, and there's a dizen of PoV characters by book.
Among the most important characters, there's the Stark
Ned (that's the short name for Eddard) is someone bound by rules of honour and decency that not everyone in the country does. He's also a very good father. He was the younger brother, the one who shouldn't have inherited. But his elder brother Brandon was killed by Aerys, so Ned inherited both the Lordship over the Northern land, and Brandon's fiancee. Ned's fatal flaw and quality I love the most is that again and again he's put himsel into danger to protect children. That for all he's percieved as rigidly honourable man, compassion was stronger.
Catelyn is Ned's wife. She came from southern lands, came to learn to love Ned over the years. She's fiercely protective of her children. That's what defines her and her action through the books. In many ways she's the most traditionnal woman of the characters, but despite that she made lots of bold moves that shaped important actions in the book. However, not always wisely.
Robb is the elder of the Stark children. At the start of the story, all of them find a dead direwolf bitch with a litter pup who are just born. There's the exact number for each of the Star children (the direwolf is the heraldic animal associated with the Stark House) so it's taken as an omen, and they each keep one. Robb named his Grey Wind.
Jon Snow is the child Ned brought back from the war and presented as his bastard son to his newly wed Catelyn. He never told who was the mother, and Catelyn isn't overly fond of Jon. Apart from that Jon generally has a good relationship with everyone in the family, especially Robb (they're the same age more or less) and Arya. Compared to Robb Jon is a more sullen teenager, less outgoing but more reflective. Jon's direwolf is called Ghost.
Sansa is the elder daughter. She's the "good girl" of the family, the one that knows how to curtsie perfectly, sew well, and loves nothing more than romantic songs about knights. I do think Sansa has hidden depth, she's a quite compassionate girl for one, and she's a survivor despite everything. But that's only clear once she's captured in a hostile court for a long while. Sansa's direwolf is called Lady.
Arya her younger sister is no less of a survivor. Arya's the tomboy, the one who knows how to ride horses, the one who's offered a small sword by Jon when they leave their home and names is "Needle". Arya and Sansa's relationship, as you can imagine, doesn't always go well. What I love about Arya is that she's not token tomboy. She's an tough as a nail little girl, one that kills her first man at 11 to escape the people that would kill her. Her direwolf is called Nymeria, after a Queen of old legends that led her people.
Bran is 8 at the beginning of the story, he's the baby brother everyone adores and for good reason, he's got a sunny personnality. Like Sansa, Bran loves songs of knights and he wants to become one when growing up. Bran's second passion is climbing on the facade of the castle, he's got a gift for it. Climbing on a tower, he saw by the window two naked people discussing about the king. Bran was surprised and almost fell, but the man in the room grasped him, asked him his age, sighed, said "the things I do for love", and pushed him through the window.
That happens rather early in the book, and that's the point I realized it would be a book like no other.
Bran survived the fall, but was crippled. He's one of my favourite character as well (maybe I just like kids ^^) He named his direwolf Summer, and that's my favourite direwolf.
There's another Stark, Rickon, but he's four starting the serie, so what can I say about him ?
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Date: 11 October 2005 09:52 am (UTC)Jaime is an interesting character which is troublesome to describe. He's blond and rather flamboyant, and has learned to bear his nickname Kingslayer with a twisted kind of pride. In the same twisted fashion, Jaime is quite proud of having only ever slept with his sister Cersei. Tyrion once described Jaime as being the only person who genuinely cares about him.
Tyrion is an all time favourite of most people who read the book. The little guy has got most of the best line in the serie. Tyrion is sharply intelligent, which is good, given that he's looked suspiciously by everyone for being a dwarf. Tyrion makes a lot of short jokes about himself. He's also one of the most decent Lannister, in that he's willing to admit to being chivalrous and kind to people from times to times (well, away form his father for exemple) He's what I'd call a cynical idealist. Tyrion has a distinct habit for making friends in strange places. Such as sellswords, whores, and barbarian bandits who live in the mountains. Sometimes it's an asset. Sometimes, boy, does it screw him over.
Cersei is Jaime's twin sister, and queen of the Seven Kingdom. She was about as happy to marry Robert Baratheon as he was to marry her. Robert being overall, an oaf, a drunkard and a deeply flawed human being, you can, at times, feel sorry for her. However Cersei being in general, a powerhungry bitch (not in the good way) and I usually hesitate to use that word to describe female character but she is, a slut, sometimes you feel sorry for Robert. Cersei is powerhungry and envious, and, like Catelyn, she'd do anything to protect her children as well as protect her power. Sadly for her, she's not as good a plotter as her brother Tyrion.
The other main main character (heh) would be Daenarys Targaryen. She was born when her mother was already fleeing the uprizing in Westeros, so she never knew the land apart from what her brother told her. We meet her as she's more or less forced to marry a barbarian lord (think monghol) She's fifteen.
The Taegaryens have many cute traditions and quirks apart from their affinity for dragons. They have strange colourings for one, silver blonde hair and purple eyes for one, and they used to privalegize marrying within the family above all else. So Daenarys had grew up thinking she'd marry her brother Viserys. Viserys is... not the most wonderful human being ever. Anyway, the mariage was part of an half bake plot to provide forces so as to hopefully retake their throne, of course, but it didn't work out so well. Daenarys actually manages to adapt herself to her new life as the barbarian first wife, better than Viserys does, actually. I like Daenarys she's ressourceful and smart, though she's still got a lot of naivety to her (not as much as Sansa thankfully) But she learns.
Plot well... at some point obviously, King Robert sadly quits the land of the living, and of course the shit starts hitting the fan. That is, lots of people, for perfectly reasonnable reasons, or for perfectly reasonnable greediness, start claiming a throne for themselves. That certainly occupies a great part of the intrigue. Then there's Daenarys' adventures far east in exotic land. Then there's the Wall up north, where Jon is, and the... strange thing threatening there. Did I mention it was a book that had Zombies ? Actually it's also got Ninja (well close enough) and Pirates. When a story manages to get all three, you know it good :p
And there's a number of other weird things all around the country.
And there's actually a lot of other characters I deeply adore, such as Sandor Clegane, Littlefinguer or Davos Seaworth, and I wouldn't know how to introduce them to you without spoiling a big of the story. I could tell more, but do you really want me to spoil you ?
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Date: 11 October 2005 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 12 October 2005 12:40 pm (UTC)Thank you for the review^_^ I'll add the first book of the series to my list next time I order from Amazon.