Scan barcode
A review by fictionesque
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
5.0
Ah fuck. It's five stars, but it's a bittersweet five stars. This book gave me blue balls. Let's talk about it.
This series is just so...spellbinding. I think this series will always be my Lord of the Rings just because it reads less like a Bible and more like a legend passed down by word of mouth, told generation to generation by the fireside.
The supernatural begins to have a larger and larger presence, book by book. This one has the most magic in it of all the ones precluding it. And I love that. I love the dragons, the giants, the gods old and new, and the freakin ice zombies.
The contradiction that I find so beautiful in this all is how GRRM always markets this series as a more realistic LOTR, but every time I told myself not to get my hopes up that the magic would rear its head again, it did-- in the form of a dragon, swooping in at just the right time, etc. George RR Martin marketed and SOLD this story to cynics, and he still manages to enchant them. How does that work?
I'm really hoping that the story continues on the trajectory that this has set it up to continue on, and the ancient magic continues to rise.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the last two installments. No one can write fantasy like GRRM. I think I daresay this ties with Narnia for my favorite fantasy series of all time. I also hope that GRRM is doing a decent job of isolating himself from the hype surrounding the last two (three?) books, to go forth and tell the story that he wanted to tell.
I think I would only have two complaints about this particular installment, and that was that there was more sexual assault than necessary, and there wasn't any Sansa. Was hoping to see her at least once. But I enjoyed all the Daenerys.
Someday, when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves, GRRM will publish the rest of this dang series.
Until then, we can only wait.
Welcome to hiatus (hell).
This series is just so...spellbinding. I think this series will always be my Lord of the Rings just because it reads less like a Bible and more like a legend passed down by word of mouth, told generation to generation by the fireside.
The supernatural begins to have a larger and larger presence, book by book. This one has the most magic in it of all the ones precluding it. And I love that. I love the dragons, the giants, the gods old and new, and the freakin ice zombies.
The contradiction that I find so beautiful in this all is how GRRM always markets this series as a more realistic LOTR, but every time I told myself not to get my hopes up that the magic would rear its head again, it did-- in the form of a dragon, swooping in at just the right time, etc. George RR Martin marketed and SOLD this story to cynics, and he still manages to enchant them. How does that work?
I'm really hoping that the story continues on the trajectory that this has set it up to continue on, and the ancient magic continues to rise.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the last two installments. No one can write fantasy like GRRM. I think I daresay this ties with Narnia for my favorite fantasy series of all time. I also hope that GRRM is doing a decent job of isolating himself from the hype surrounding the last two (three?) books, to go forth and tell the story that he wanted to tell.
I think I would only have two complaints about this particular installment, and that was that there was more sexual assault than necessary, and there wasn't any Sansa. Was hoping to see her at least once. But I enjoyed all the Daenerys.
Someday, when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, the seas go dry and the mountains blow in the wind like leaves, GRRM will publish the rest of this dang series.
Until then, we can only wait.
Welcome to hiatus (hell).