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A Storm of Swords: Book Three of A Song of Ice and Fire |
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A Storm of Swords: Book Three of A Song of Ice and Fire By George R. R. Martin Harper Collins - Voyager 973 pages, 2000 ISBN 0002245868 Reviewed by our UK Editor Rachel A. Hyde Winter has come to the Seven Kingdoms and wild things are about, some of which are human and known to those who have read the first two epic tomes of this series. Rob Stark is back and leading a revolt while Bran appears to have a magical destiny. Sansa is at court and things aren’t going too well for the series’ strongest character Tyrion Lannister. Awful Joffrey is still an underage king, manipulated by his evil mother Cersei, and Daenerys is indulging in a spot of empire building. This all surely makes for a plot-packed fantasy saga that, like Robert Jordan, is the nearest thing the genre gets to being a soap. There is plenty of action in this novel and probably the strongest to date. By now, the main characters and those who have moved on to center stage have developed into something beyond the usual stereotypes. Earlier books seemed to lack character depth. With this dimension present in A Storm of Swords, Martin succeeds in creating believable folk who grow and change as events shape them, and the story takes off like a rocket. Martin can plot and scheme with Machiavellian intensity. Further development of the secondary characters would go a long way towards making this series a true classic. |
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