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A review by brisingr
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4.0
With a really knotted story and following the lives of some of the most important persons in the Seven Kingdoms, A Game of Thrones presents the intrigues at the court and the secrets that are surrounding even the most powerful men of the era.
We have a big pallete of characters, varying from honorable men to traitors, from women who loved to crazy witches, from bastards to youngsters who are ready to rule. The most horrible and amazing thing at the same time is that Martin knows his characters very well, which makes him extremely powerful, making us loving them. No character is fully good or fully bad, they simply serve the causes that seem right for them at the time, the one from where they can gain the most. We have lots of point of views, which just lets you see the world created in its width, and also its population, but at the same time also lets you unable to choose a side, choose a favorite to root for. The author makes you know its characters as well as him, making you to sigh "oh my child" at every other page.
I really loved the story and the author's style fits so well with the genre he has chosen. It catches your attention and it is a book from where you learn a lot of things, even if for the lessons to come through, you have to cry with some characters or swear at other ones. These lessons leave their marks, the readers being left with only an empty pit in their stomach, a tear that won't roll down their cheek and the certainty that if they were there, it would have changed something. Because in spite of the hard life most of the people in the books have to face, in spite of the intrigues that kill easier and more efficiently than any war, you can't stop but wish you could be there as well.
I think that this wish is what made this book so special. George R. R. Martin managed to make everything seem real, extremely real and not seem like such a far-away thing from our own world. It is, of course, much in the past and has creatures that belong in the fantasy realm, but still, you can't stop wondering, what if?
But during my read, I couldn't stop feeling helpless and idignant, more than anything else, and I must admit that I was surprised by this book. Probably the first book which I've doubted, but proved itself worth the hype.
This book is awful for my heart, but so great for my mind and pleasures.
Favorite characters up until now are: Arya (for how amazing her determination and small, internal revolt is) and Daenerys (for her strenght and what a big impact she left on me) and Cat (for how desperate she is to protect the ones she loves). For now, the Stark house it is my favorite, but I feel like future books might change my opinion (oh sweet spoilers I didn't want or need).
My hands shake just slightly when I think in how many wrong ways this story could turn and I just need to run and buy the next volumes and just read them, as soon as possible. My sense are tingling when I think that this series will only just become better (and here all my friends nod in agreement and I end this rant).
4/5 stars just because I still had the feeling that something was missing...
We have a big pallete of characters, varying from honorable men to traitors, from women who loved to crazy witches, from bastards to youngsters who are ready to rule. The most horrible and amazing thing at the same time is that Martin knows his characters very well, which makes him extremely powerful, making us loving them. No character is fully good or fully bad, they simply serve the causes that seem right for them at the time, the one from where they can gain the most. We have lots of point of views, which just lets you see the world created in its width, and also its population, but at the same time also lets you unable to choose a side, choose a favorite to root for. The author makes you know its characters as well as him, making you to sigh "oh my child" at every other page.
I really loved the story and the author's style fits so well with the genre he has chosen. It catches your attention and it is a book from where you learn a lot of things, even if for the lessons to come through, you have to cry with some characters or swear at other ones. These lessons leave their marks, the readers being left with only an empty pit in their stomach, a tear that won't roll down their cheek and the certainty that if they were there, it would have changed something. Because in spite of the hard life most of the people in the books have to face, in spite of the intrigues that kill easier and more efficiently than any war, you can't stop but wish you could be there as well.
I think that this wish is what made this book so special. George R. R. Martin managed to make everything seem real, extremely real and not seem like such a far-away thing from our own world. It is, of course, much in the past and has creatures that belong in the fantasy realm, but still, you can't stop wondering, what if?
But during my read, I couldn't stop feeling helpless and idignant, more than anything else, and I must admit that I was surprised by this book. Probably the first book which I've doubted, but proved itself worth the hype.
This book is awful for my heart, but so great for my mind and pleasures.
Favorite characters up until now are: Arya (for how amazing her determination and small, internal revolt is) and Daenerys (for her strenght and what a big impact she left on me) and Cat (for how desperate she is to protect the ones she loves). For now, the Stark house it is my favorite, but I feel like future books might change my opinion (oh sweet spoilers I didn't want or need).
My hands shake just slightly when I think in how many wrong ways this story could turn and I just need to run and buy the next volumes and just read them, as soon as possible. My sense are tingling when I think that this series will only just become better (and here all my friends nod in agreement and I end this rant).
4/5 stars just because I still had the feeling that something was missing...