Showing posts with label George R.R. Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George R.R. Martin. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin


A Dance with Dragons

Medium: Print (Novel)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam Spectra
Country: United States
Released: July 12, 2011
Consumed: June 27, 2012
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 9.0/10

I'm done. I can move on with my life for the next five years while I wait for the sixth book to be released. Which would not be moving on. 

It's 1,000 pages, but it wasn't enough. Not enough Bra. Not enough Davos. I need it all. 

This is one hell of a rebound from A Feast for Crows, a book I enjoyed but wasn't at the level of its predecessors.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows


Medium: Novel
Author: George R.R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam Spectra
Country: United States
Released: 2005
Consumed: May 15, 2012
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 8.0/10




Book 4 in the A Song of Fire and Ice series is the consensus choice as the weakest entry. By far. I suppose i would agree. But considering how much I loved the first three books, that doesn't say much about Feast's quality. It features much less action than any other book, but the attention to minute detail and the level of complex political intrigue is there. I think I like it less because it removes my three favorite characters to wait for book five. Martin focuses this entry on King's Landing and its surrounding regions, and the Iron Islands. No Wall, no Free CIties, no Far East. In the end, having not yet read the next book, I think Martin made the right choice to split the story by location instead of chronology.