A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

November 24, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam Books, 2011. 1016 pgs. Borrowed from a friend. Running concurrent to A Feast for Crows, the fifth book in Martin’s series follows the characters traveling and living outside of Westeros. Daenerys Targaryen, in the land to the east, rules over the city she conquered with her Unsullies and her three dragons but is finding how difficult it is to reign rather than defeat in battle. Tyrion Lannister leaves King’s Landing following the murder of his nephew, […]

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A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

November 9, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam Books, 2011. Originally published 2000. 1060 pgs. Borrowed from a friend. Eight-year-old Tommen Baratheon is now the king of the Seven Kingdoms, but his reign is mere puppetry because his mother Cersi Lannister rules in all but name. Without her father, Tywin, or her brother, Tyrion, to guide her, Cersei has become paranoid about the influence House Tyrell is trying to inject into her rule through the marriage of Tommen and Margaery Tyrell, which alienates the […]

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A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

November 2, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam Books, 2011. Originally published 2000. 1177 pgs. Borrowed from a friend. This book, the third in Martin’s fantasy epic, covers all of the third season of “Game of Thrones” (including the infamous Red Wedding) and then delves into all new territory. Of the five contenders for the Iron Throne introduced in the second book, one is dead, another is near defeat, and the others continue to wage war, make and break alliances, and scheme within their […]

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A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

October 31, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam Books, 2011. Originally published 1999. 1009 pgs. Borrowed from a friend. The second book in Martin’s fantasy epic series titled A Song of Ice and Fire depicts the war and strife as the four men who claimed the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms are joined by a fifth — Balon Greyjoy, father of Theon the former ward of Ned Stark and the self-declared king of the Iron Islands. Theon, for his part, wages war on the […]

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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

September 16, 2013 by Christina

Fiction — print. Bantam Books, 2011. Originally published 1996. 811 pgs. Borrowed from a friend. Winter is coming. While not exactly how this novel begins, the coldness of ghostly white people attacking defenders of the wall that keeps the wilds of the far north out of the Seven Kingdoms is the set up for what lies ahead. And the family that claims these words as their motto, the Starks of Winterfell, begin to learn in this massive tone just how […]

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