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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

34 reviews

moriahleigh's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, War, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Slavery, Animal death, Blood, and Incest

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Loved this more than I expected to - I'm hooked! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Infidelity, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Incest, War, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, and Sexism

vayalanay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, War, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Gore, Grief, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

fifteenthjessica's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

So, this is my second time reading it. After feeling like Wizard of Earthsea was a drudge and a few dnfs, I thought I should reread something I liked, and picked Game of Thrones (first read in summer of 2013) because, for the better part of the year, my urge to write fan fic of it has returned. I spent about a month and a half on this.

I'm still invested in a lot of the characters, both ones who played a major role in this book and ones who don't play a major role or even appear until later, but reading it when you know a lot of the shocking moves,

like Bran's fall, the incest, the death of Eddard Stark,

wasn't as fun for me. George R. R. Martin's prose alternates between gorgeous descriptions and awkward or uncomfortable in ways that I don't think served Martin's goals.

Part of the reason I rooted for Viserys Targaryen's death was because I thought after he died, I'd hear less about 13-14 year old Daenerys Targaryen's breasts and nipples.

Dialogue can be iffy as well. Like, characters who probably haven't talked much all refer to the political games in King's Landing as "the game of thrones" which comes off as a heavy handed title drop. Between how long it took me to read this and Dreamsongs, volume 1 this year, the rest of his writing doesn't do as much for me as his characters.

I have heard a lot of people praise his world building, and as an aspiring writer/actual dungeon master who has dabbled in world building her own fantasy settings, Martin's quality is very inconsistent at best. Daenerys spends a lot of time with the Dothraki over the course of five hefty books, but the culture comes off as very one dimensional and most members of it are forgettable. I don't think I'm alone in remembering all Dothraki characters except Khal Drogo exclusively in terms of their relationship to Dany and maybe a name because they are very unimportant. Heck, there's a short paragraph in one of Dany's later chapters that feels like Martin is just dumping the personality of the youngest of her future bloodriders (Aggo? The three of them really blur together) on us in place of letting it unfold naturally as he interacts with Dany. The culture is mostly a combination of raiding and horses, almost to the point of impracticality (how many horses do they keep if they need them for transportation, fighting, clothing, and meat, plus burn horses in the funeral pyres of their leaders so they have a mount in the afterlife? There's a reason real world horseback nomadic cultures usually herd other animals). This is especially bad if you compare them to the equally raiding focused Ironborn, who in later novels are fleshed out through four point of view characters and with a number of memorable side characters that show that not everyone is raiding every waking hour of the day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, War, Alcoholism, Death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, Abandonment, Torture, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, and Infertility

Minor: Self harm and Trafficking

madzia's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

it is not that bad as i heard. It's amazing book, obviously with some guestionable scenes. What can i say more? I love some characters and hate the others. The world is stunning and all of the creatures, dragons (even if the appeared in the last chapter), direwolfs and everything else. The plot is that literally everyone eventually dies, but for sure i will read the rest of the books in the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

jaimc's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Incest, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, War, and Ableism

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

dagoth_ur's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

For some reason (having not watched the show) I thought this was going to be a really shallow book but I have been pleasantly surprised! I start asoiaf to fill the gap that the first law trilogy left in my heart and this itched the spot (however this was not as heavy on character rather than plot as I would have liked) 

• I enjoy how detailed this world is 
• I have a feeling Sansa has ALOT ahead of her I could her annoying at first and now I just want to give her a hug
• My favorite sections of the book have to be the chapters leading up to Neds death, I wish we could have had it from his pov though rather than Arya who looked away (completely understandable) I feel like something is bad is going to happen to Rob though, I thought the battle part with rob and his army was kind of boring, I’ve been spoiled with Joe Abercrombie’s battle sequences

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, War, and Gore

ocean_the_reader's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The writing was fantastic and im really liking the political stuff in this fantasy world. It was slow but the slowness had a purpose so it didn't feel like it was dragging. The characters varied from sweet and innocent, to not so sweet and innocent, to morally gray which I personally loved. I loved seeing how the characters handled situations and grew from it.

although I do wish that Daenerys was the one to kill her brother Viserys, and I hope that Sansa is able to get out of Jofferys claws.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and War

Minor: Child death

thebibliobibuli's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Gore, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, Incest, Slavery, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Animal death, and Alcohol

jeannep_l's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, War, and Rape

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Suicidal thoughts