A Storm of Swords
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- ISBN13: 9780553573428
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Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever veteran. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the fantastic achievements of imaginative fiction.
A Storm of Swords
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, building her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world….
But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others–a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . .Amazon.com Review
Is George R.R. Martin for real? Can a fantasy epic really get better with each new installment? Fans of the genre have glumly come to expect go-nowhere sequels from additional authors, so we’re entitled to pinch ourselves over Martin’s tightly crafted Song of Ice and Fire series. The reports are all right: this series is the real deal, and Martin deserves his crown as the rightful king of the epic. A Game of Thrones got things off to a rock-levelheaded start, A Clash of Kings only exceeded expectations, but it’s the Storm of Swords hat trick that cements Martin’s rep as the most worthy fantasy leader to come along since that additional R.R.
Like the first two books, A Storm of Swords could coast on the fundamentals: deftly detailed characters, convincing voices and dialogue, a robust back-tale, and a satisfyingly unpredictable plot. But it’s Martin’s consistently bold choices that set the series apart. Every character is honest game for the headman’s axe (sometimes factually), and not only do the excellent guys regularly lose out to the terrible guys, you’re never exactly sure who you should be cheering for in the first place.
Storm is full of admirable intricacies. Events that you thought Martin was setting up solidly for the first two books are exposed as complex feints; the meadow quickly narrows after the Battle of the Blackwater and once again, anything goes. Robb tries desperately to hold the North together, Jon returns from the wildling lands with a torn heart, Bran continues his quest for the three-eyed crow beyond the Wall, Catelyn struggles to save her fragile family tree, Arya becomes ever more wolflike in her wanderings, Daenerys comes into her own, and Joffrey’s cruel rule from King’s Landing continues, building even his fellow Lannisters uneasy. Martin tests all the major characters in A Storm of Swords: some fail the examination, while others–like Martin himself–seem to only get stronger. –Paul Hughes
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Since A Storm of Swords is supposed to be the last installment of the triology, I thought this book would have an ending. But it just leavings you hanging. There is no conclusion. Who eventually won the crown of Westros? You have all of these would be kings fighthing amoung themselves and you’d expect one to come out on top. But, no, ancient George just ends the books right in the middle of the battle. Aftering reading all three books and getting involved with all of the characters, Mr. Martin just ends this last installment in mid-stride books. Nothing gets resolved. None of the characters reach their final destiny,and the final battle is never fought. It’s as if Mr. Martin ran out of thoughts and just chose to end the book. If you have read the first two books, stop now and don’t go any further because you will be disappointed in the end. I like the tale, the intrigue, the characters, and all that, but there is just no conclusion. My favorite character Arya, never finds her way home, nor gets reunited with her mother, Catyln. Sansa, Arys’s sister, what is her final fate? And Catyln, supposedly murdered, is somehow resurrected and starts avenging her so called death then abruptly the book ends. I can only surmise that Mr. Martin got writer’s block and just finished the book, or he left himself an opening for another installment.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I admit this series is a excellent, not the better, fantasy novel but the ratings are too high I must bring it down. What I don’t like in this series is that the leader makes the characters Bipolar or have muliplte personality in order to change or make a new plot. It seems the personality of the characters the leader has made is twisted suddenly to shift a plot. I guess it’s one way to make the novel longer but the characters are all bipolar. I bought this book because of the ratings and I am bored with the frustration of the tale. skip this series, read Veer of Time as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this because of the glowing reviews. It took me 3 months to get through this garbage mascarading as book. Not because it’s 1,000 pages but because of mindnumbingly dull. In hands of a real writer this would have been 500 page book and possible excellent. As written it isn’t even readable. Nothing happens for hundreds of pages. The only thing to keep you turning pages is the thought something must take place. Characters like Eddard Stark are so one sided they are a joke. Everything that happens is forced. Characters are never rational. Most of the scenes are contrived. The whole off with his head thing is so pathetic. Then I am left wondering what third grader edited the book. Does Martin know how to say anything lacking thirty layers of nonsense surrounding it? Doubtful…No, oops that’s he said doubtfully, nervously, darkly…Oops no, I meant he spit or should I have said. No Martin wouldn’t have. His characters don’t say. They swear, admit, spit, snort, echo but they do it quietly, bitterly, bitterly, softly, respectfully, happily, breathlessly, calmly, and that’s only in the first few pages. Imagines the joyfully, tearfully, fitfully wondrous things to come.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Please do not buy this book, it rambles on for 900 painful pages. The first 2 books were excellent even with all the players but this one hits the bottom of the barrel and then failed to give an ending. Failure of ending a book is getting to be an epidemic with today’s fantasy writers.
As I read the book there were excellent parts but just about everybody I liked gets killed. I told my wife every time I read the Storm of Swords book, the first 2 books were excellent, this one has to get better. It never did.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Of Martin’s 3 books in this series, I’ve never been so disappointed. He does weave the plot together rather well, but it was predictable. He spends too much time in detail of characters he never saw fit to elaborate on until he needed some more characters because he’s killed off all the additional main characters. There was only 1 surprise in the book and it was the very end, and I mean very end. This book was reasonably simple to place down and full of disappointments for me from such a talented leader.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5