A Dance with Dragons

A Dance with Dragons (HBO Tie-in Edition): A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five: A Novel Paperback – March 31, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s George R. R. Martin Page ID: 1101886048

Review

“Filled with vividly rendered set pieces, unexpected turnings, assorted cliffhangers and moments of appalling cruelty, A Dance with Dragons is epic fantasy as it should be written: passionate, compelling, convincingly detailed and thoroughly imagined.”—The Washington Post
 
“Long live George Martin . . . a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers.”—The New York Times
 
“One of the best series in the history of fantasy.”—Los Angeles Times

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle),and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). As a writer-producer, Martin has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Series: A Song of Ice and Fire (Book 5)Paperback: 1056 pagesPublisher: Bantam; Mti edition (March 31, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1101886048ISBN-13: 978-1101886045 Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.8 x 9.3 inches Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #20,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #267 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > TV, Movie, Video Game Adaptations #308 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Fantasy #544 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Sword & Sorcery
SPOILERS AHEAD

I’m Varamyr Sixskins. I’m here for the prologue to set us all up for the impending horrors of the North and all the excitement to come…

I’m Tyrion Lannister, the most popular character in all of Westeros! I spend this book meandering down a really slow river, ruminating bitterly about my life, misplacing my former charm, eroding all the goodwill I built up in the other books, and wondering where the whores go. Though perhaps I should have been wondering where the plot went. I also observe turtles and women, play board games, mouth off to all and sundry, and coincidentally run into various characters like some wandering monster in a D&D campaign. Maybe I’ll make it to Daenarys in the next book, but at least I ditched that pig.

I’m Asha Greyjoy. I don’t have much to do, so I’ll be the POV character keeping track of Stannis and his forces. At the beginning of Dance with Dragons, he’s working his way towards Winterfell to take it back from the Boltons. At the end of Dance with Dragons, he’s…working his way towards Winterfell to take it back from the Boltons. Hope that helps.

I’m Ser Davon Seaworth, the Onion Knight. I’m still running errands for Stannis and getting captured frequently. It’s a living.

I’m Bran Stark. I am a tree.

I’m Daenarys Targaryen. I’m only a young girl, and I know little in the ways of war, governance, what have you. I used to think I said these things to misdirect people, but as of DoD it seems to be true. I spend my time taking baths, fretting, being wishy-washy, and mooning over this hot mercenary dude. In the end I learn that "you have to go back to go forward.
Edited: 3/20/2013 (I re-read the book, wanting to give it another chance after watching the very well done television series, but my feelings generally remain the same with some new insights)

Warning: I do not give specific story spoilers, but some of my comments can be considered spoilers to the structure of the story.

So, to lighten the blow a little first, I will make it clear that I am a fan of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Like many others, I think the first three books were some of the best fantasy books in recent history. They held my interest like few others, took directions many other writers would not dare to take and had me itching to read the next. I’m a fan who checked on the status of this book at least a couple dozen times through each year to see how the progress was coming and I’m a fan who also believes in a writer taking the time he or she needs to do it properly. While I honestly was a little impatient to read the next book (which is a good thing, unless you’re attacking the author over it), I could not fault someone for wanting to do other things with their lives.

As far as the positives for A Dance with Dragons specifically, Martin continues to show a strong and addicting narrative style with a great attention to detail without going too overboard most of the time. His use of language remains strong with some good character insights and quotes derived from it, and there are a number of moments in the book that were intriguing. These are the reasons why I gave it three stars and if a lesser writer had authored the book, I probably would have never finished it.

And before I go into my criticisms of the book, there is something I would like to note.
I really liked the earlier books! Really! In fact, the two stars are primarily as a "Lifetime Achievement Award" (5 for the first 3 books, minus 1 for book 4, minus 2 for book 5). GRRM has either gotten senile or greedy (in a Peter Jackson – "Hey, lets make THREE movies out of the Hobbit" – kind of way). Anyway, as others have pointed out, almost nothing actually happens in this book. And there is no convergence either – in fact, instead of threads being pulled together, more threads are randomly added. There are now so many open threads that it is practically impossible for the series to end in two more books, without the introduction of a space-time warp that will magically land every character in the middle King’s Landing with their swords, direwolves and dragons.

To list the open threads that I can think of (SPOILER ALERT!!!):

1. Daenerys – After proving her child-like incompetence at actually ruling (paraphrIDg Che Guevara – "Blowing up trains is easy. It’s a lot more difficult to make them run on time"), she has now met up with a new khalasar and has her favorite dragon in tow. She will now use her new army to attack Meereen (again) and screw things up (again). Or she will lay waste to Qarth. Or she will march on Westeros (finally), although why she didn’t do that with her army of Unsullied is anyone’s guess.

2. Jon Snow – In keeping with GRRM’s "Screw Ned Stark and his family" approach to writing, Jon has been knifed, Caesar-like, by his comrades. However, since he has not been definitively declared dead, he will probably be brought back to life by Melisandre (a la Beric Dondarrion and Catelyn) and then go off to fight the Others as the harbinger of Light.

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