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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

36 reviews

peggy_racham's review against another edition

1.25

Readding this review after some thought
Possitive things: Daenerys' story,dragons and whitewalkers. 
Negative: Cant write 10 year olds for shit. The rape fantasies are longer(multiple pages) than the loving spouses sex scenes. 
The only reason I didnt DNF is cause I wanted to see how it ends but not worth it
All the TWs

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Death, Torture, Trafficking, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Misogyny

hanyentreletras's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Pensaba darle 4 estrellas (igual estoy siendo bastante buena) por lo del CAWPILE peeeero esas escenas super sexuales de Danny mmmm no.

Mi mayor miedo cuando comencé este libro fue que iba a ser demasiado, por como pintan a George y toda la saga, que no iba a entenderlo, etc. La verdad es que... no lo es, es súper sencillo. Puedes perderte es con los nombres y los árboles genealógicos.

Siento que en este primer libro la fantasía está menos presente de lo que, posiblemente, va a estar más adelante.

Danny es mi personaje favorito pero leerla también es un dolor porque, mientras a Catelyn y Ned le dan escenas tipo <estaban desnudos porque esa noche habían hecho el amor, a Danny (que es una NIÑA) le ponen escena muuuuuy explícitas. Sé que van a poner de excusa que es porque es por los dothraki pero lo lamento, esa no es excusa suficiente para que la única persona que tiene escenas sexuales explícitas en el libro sea una niña de 13/14 años🤢🤮 Igual estoy orgullosa de ella por todo lo que logró.

Entiendo que para algunos Ned sea su personaje favorito pero, la razón por la que me costó leerlo en dos meses fue porque en enero llegué a una parte donde sus pov's están muy presentes y 💤

Sansa se merece mis disculpas públicas, cuando ví la serie no me caía pero leyéndola me duele😞

La amistad de Jon y Sam 🔝

En fin, lo disfruté y otras veces se me hizo eterno, dependía del pov.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Slavery, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Medical content, Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Misogyny, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

cepbreed's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.5

After I finished Game of Thrones I had a conversation with my dad. I told him I loved the series so much and was considering reading the books because I was just that desperate for more content. He very matter of factly told me that reading the books was just "too nerdy." For context my dad is a classics professor who consumes books like he needs them to live, aka he's a nerd of all nerds. If he was telling me this then it genuinely would be too far to start reading, yet here I am not heading his warning and transforming into a total nerd. My new reborn nerd self is now the proud owner of the box set of all released books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. 

I think the person I was earlier this year would've hated this book so much. Thanks to Kristin Cashore's Graceling Realm series I've matured as a reader and sincerely become a fantasy fan. The slower pace, world building and detail intense writing is exactly what there is to love in the genre and George R. R. Martin is the master of all of those things. I get bored easily, yet even when reading chapter upon chapter of content I've already seen on the screen my attention is held. My biases created by the show definitely are following me into the reading and I find myself dreading certain POVs (...specifically Dany's I KNOW CONTROVERSIAL OPINION) and hanging onto every word of others (Sansa, I love her!), but this just goes to show how masterful Martin is at creating compelling characters people identify with and are passionate about. I just can't wait to get into the next book and start on Jaime and Brienne's interactions!!

Song: 

• The View Between Villages - Noah Kahan

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual content, War, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, Sexism, Slavery, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

lisa00's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, War, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Child abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Infertility, Infidelity, Body shaming, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Incest, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Death, Sexism, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Animal death

minzzi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

   George RR Martin accomplished two very hard things with this book: Criating an entire world from scratch that is beliveble and making each character with a POV sound like their own person. Everytime there was a description of a place, person or cultural aspect, the picture of Westeros became more and more clear in my mind. Truly amazing worldbuilding. 
   Having said that, I also think that this book was a bit to long and certainly dragged at parts. There were whole chapters comprised of pages of nothing with one tidbit of important information throw in the middle, all POVs suffered from that problem.
   I also found some of the charaters just plain annoying. Calelyn and Ned's poor decision making through out the whole story made me so mad. After a certain point, everything that happens of bad in this book can be traced back their shitty choices. And the more you learn about the other characters and how intelligent they are and how deep their scams go, the poor choices of those two only becomes more obvious and infuriating. Also, I didn't really care for Daenerys, mostly she just made me sad. I'm sure she will be one of the important figures in this series, but it's hard to read her story when all of it is just her being sexualy abused and beaten. News flash, being raped doesn't make anyone stronger or more powerful. And for all the people that said her relationship with Drogo was cute and romantic, please point me to what book you read, because clearly it wasn't this one.
   On the other hand, I really liked Tyrion, Arya and Jon, they are my favorites for now. Specially the last two, who have the combination of smarts and stubborness that I like. Bran seems to be in the brink of some kinda of magical awakening and I'm all here for it. And, contrary to most of what I have seen online, I didn't dislike Sansa. Sure she has a lot o character development to make, but she is just a scared child that no one bothered to tell about the dangers of the real world. 
    When it comes to characters who didn't have a POV, I'm very interested in Varys,  he seens to have big plans on the works behind everyone's backs. I also loved to hate the Lannisters, except Joffrey, he is just an asshole.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Body horror, Murder, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

ran_sophia's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The style of writing and storytelling is excellent. The pace was fast and the book is readable. Otherwise, the book disappointed me a little, because I feel like the story didn't suit me at all. But I see that there is some potential, so I'll try the second part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Incest, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Grief, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Murder, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, and Genocide

uhm_kai's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

Moderate: Torture, Suicide, Fatphobia, Classism, Abortion, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Excrement

vigil's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.75

a very strong start to an epic fantasy series. martin weaved multiple pov's, separate plotlines, and a staggering cast of characters with ease. his prose is descriptive without being overindulgent. his handling of the dothraki, and how so many women dies in childbirth is :/ his cishet white man shenanigans aside, i loved this book. even at several hundred pages (what the fuck george) heed all content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Vomit, War, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Slavery

waverlyloyd's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Blood

moonybombadil's review

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

if you want to read something kinda similar to the lord of the rings, but way more brutal, containing way too many affronts but also actually significant (and really cool) female characters, try this series. it's insanely scandalous. you'll love it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Murder, Genocide, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, and War