Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire, #1
Mass Market Paperback, 837 pages
English language
Published March 3, 2011 by Bantam Books.
In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantansy fans everywhere.
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, …
In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantansy fans everywhere.
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes of the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Well thought out characters, deeply intricate and twisted plots, and richly expressed scenery, Game of Thrones has all that and more. This was one of those books that I had difficulty putting down, and I suspect I will have the same problem with its sequels. If you love reading fantasy, this is a must read.
More than once during the first 300 or so pages of this 700 page book, I thought, "This really isn't grabbing me. Maybe I should move on to something else." By the time I was nearing the end, however, my thoughts ran more along the lines of: "Oh no. I'm almost to the end. No! I want more!" And so on.
And as soon as I had read the final page, I immediately bought the next book in the series. (Reading on the iPhone Kindle app, so the impulse buy was dead easy.)
Well-written, well-constructed epic fantasy. Recommended.
