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A review by jab333
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
1.0
Ok... the book wasn't honestly all that bad, but it's long as hell, and I just don't have the energy to keep going. Maybe I'm in the wrong headspace. I don't know. But I just cannot dredge up any care for what the people in this book are going through, though I am not completely sure why. I got through like, 200-250 pages, and... I just can't, y'all. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. This is not a cry for help. (Blinks twice)
Anyway. I think this may be a simple case of this book just not being for me. Fantasy's not a genre I'm incredibly enamored by, and longer books, especially, are something I... don't much like. The fact that I finished SJM's Throne of Glass series should probably be counted as an outlier, but my excuse for that is that the first couple books weren't super long, so there I could take my time and get used to the characters and figure out who I liked and didn't like. Here, not so much. I do like Bran, though. From the little bit that I read, he seems like a pretty chill dude. Everyone else is kinda meh. Also, some of the relationships were....... questionable. I'm just gonna say that. Questionable. It's an understatement. Anyway. I might revisit this book sometime in the future if I decide to give it another shot, and the only real reason I'm giving it 1 star is because I DNFed it, and that's the tier I reserve for books that I DNF. The bits that I did read, though, I'd give... 2.5 or 3 stars, depending on my mood. I suppose I have to say 3 stars, because Goodreads deals in integers.
Anyway. I think this may be a simple case of this book just not being for me. Fantasy's not a genre I'm incredibly enamored by, and longer books, especially, are something I... don't much like. The fact that I finished SJM's Throne of Glass series should probably be counted as an outlier, but my excuse for that is that the first couple books weren't super long, so there I could take my time and get used to the characters and figure out who I liked and didn't like. Here, not so much. I do like Bran, though. From the little bit that I read, he seems like a pretty chill dude. Everyone else is kinda meh. Also, some of the relationships were....... questionable. I'm just gonna say that. Questionable. It's an understatement. Anyway. I might revisit this book sometime in the future if I decide to give it another shot, and the only real reason I'm giving it 1 star is because I DNFed it, and that's the tier I reserve for books that I DNF. The bits that I did read, though, I'd give... 2.5 or 3 stars, depending on my mood. I suppose I have to say 3 stars, because Goodreads deals in integers.