★★★½
GENRE: Fantasy
SUBJECT: ancient society, warring clans
Setting:
CHARACTERS: Eddard Stark, Catelyn Stark, Robert Baratheon, Cersei Lanister
DATE READ: May 14 - July 28
NO. OF PAGES: 694
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: yes, audio stockpile
PLOT:............................................3.50
CHARACTERIZATION:...............4.00
TOPICS:.......................................4.00
STYLE:.........................................3.50
ORIGINALITY:..............................3.50
ADDICTIVENESS:.....................3.00
OWNERSHIP:.............................3.00
Threshold Quality........................3.50
Average........................................................................3.50
Since there are over 500 reviews at LT for this tome, I won't take the time to recap the plot. Suffice it to say, the storyline was extremely involved and wandered from several viewpoints and areas of the "realm".
I'd heard so much about this series, especially with the HBO adaption, that I guess I was a bit disappointed, maybe not because of the book itself but because it was so long and a bit hard to follow with all the strange names. I'm not going to dive into the next one right away, but I will read the next one sometime soon.
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