mitchk 's review for:

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow by George R.R. Martin

5.0

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Wow - the best one yet! Loved book 1, enjoyed book 2 but got a bit bogged down with long battles, but book 3 ( part 1) is amazing! Characters getting physically close - separated by half a day on the road, a boardwalk across a swampland or a castle tower - adds to the drama and suspense. Knights are changing sides, regrouping, examining political allegiances, nursing there wounds and counting the costs of war. Rebels and low folk show tenacity, moral fibre and good sense as the whole politics of the wall - and the rights to land, sea and air, who we let in or keep out, couldn't feel more relevant if it tried!