A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin, 2005
After a war of kings, the survivors divide the wreckage—and queens, outlaws and broken men get their turn.
George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin writes fantasy as political weather: winters that last years, families who keep ledgers of old insults, and people whose cleverness and honor both turn out to cost them. The books share a cold, patient realism—feasts, sieges, marriages and betrayals, with magic kept at the edges—and they reward you for paying attention to who owes what to whom. Start with «A Game of Thrones», which sets the board: a throne everyone wants and choices that each carry a price; if you want a single taste of the series at its most concentrated, «A Storm of Swords» moves its pieces with particular force.
Feels like power, dread and war.
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The book was split from a larger manuscript: Martin divided the characters by geography, sending the North and Essos to A Dance with Dragons and leaving the south to this volume.
Grief arrives first as the hole a lost tooth leaves behind.
No, that cannot be. That is not the way a lion dies. The queen felt strangely calm. She remembered the first time she had lost a tooth, when she was just a little girl. It hadn’t hurt, but the hole in her mouth felt so odd she could not stop touching it with her tongue. Now there is a hole in the world where Father stood, and holes want filling. Books by George R. R. Martin
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin, 1998
Five kings claim one throne. In the capital, the cleverest man alive has been handed the job of defending it.
A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin, 2000
For the prologue alone: a frozen conspiracy, a migrating people, and a steward sharpening a grudge.
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin, 2011
Exiled and out of gold, Tyrion Lannister crosses the narrow sea into a merchant's manse, where his wit is the only thing he still owns.
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin, 1996
A winter that lasts years, a throne everyone wants, and a crowd of people whose choices all cost them something. Politics with knives and weather.
Στον Οίκο του Σκουληκιού
George R. R. Martin, 1977
A decadent underground society celebrates beneath a dying sun, where elaborate rituals and beautiful surfaces conceal a world in decline.
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