And prognostications of doom are only enhanced by the appearance in the skies of a blazing red comet, held as both a good and evil omen by the masses and the high houses alike. With no fewer than four men claiming kingship, the land of Westeros is on the brink of the most devastating war it has seen in years. Meanwhile, the late Robert Baratheon’s two brothers, Stannis and Renly, each claim the crown and the Iron Throne at King’s Landing held by the cretinous boy-king Joffrey and his arch-evil mother Cersei Lannister. With Eddard Stark treacherously murdered, his eldest son Robb has been proclaimed King in the North by all of his loyal followers and bannermen.
So don’t read any more of this review if you haven’t caught up. Martin’s second installment begins right where A Game of Thrones left off. And you know I’m not a guy given to hyperbole, if you’ve been reading this site for any length of time. Martin wins decisively, his genuine epic soaring above the countless wannabes weighing down bookstore shelves. There’s no clash of kings to be had on this battlefield. Other genre luminaries as Jordan, Brooks, and Goodkind have garnered their followers and made their marks upon the genre for good or bad, but all of their works pale before A Song of Ice and Fire. That Martin can grip a reader so consistently and expertly throughout a story nearly a thousand pages long is no small achievement.
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