A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition (A Song of Ice and Fire Illustrated Edition)
A dazzling edition of the book that began the iconic A Song of Ice and Fire series, featuring 8 full-color illustrations and over 70 black-and-white illustrations—bringing the mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure of the magnificent saga that inspired HBO’s A Game of Thrones to life as never before.
With a special foreword by John Hodgman
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Explore the illustrated editions of A Song of Ice and Fire:
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS
With a special foreword by John Hodgman
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Explore the illustrated editions of A Song of Ice and Fire:
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS
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I finally finished this 800-pager! Phew!
What's that you say? There are FOUR MORE of these in the series???? O...M...G!!
This was a fun read in a genre I never thought I would like - fantasy. Why did I resist for so long? I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life working my way through the series.
Thanks, Vivian!
What's that you say? There are FOUR MORE of these in the series???? O...M...G!!
This was a fun read in a genre I never thought I would like - fantasy. Why did I resist for so long? I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life working my way through the series.
Thanks, Vivian!
This was one I wanted to read after watching the show. The first season along with this first book pretty accurately mirror each other. Told from the point of view of many characters, following paths and plots that intersect with each other in a web of lies, deceit, back stabbing, secrets, and best of all, dragons. Definitely a complex story but a fun read nonetheless.
This series has been on my TBR and my bookshelf for years. I have also never seen the show so I came into this without any prior knowledge.
I loved the first ~75% of the book. About halfway through I was so ready to give it 5 ⭐ but I had a hard time staying engaged the last 100 pages or so.
There's definitely a lot of details and names to keep straight, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I do think the author does a good job of reminding you who someone is if it's the first few times they've been mentioned or introduced. But there are a LOT of background characters/names that you only read about for a handful of chapters.
I also wasn't sure how I'd feel about some of the rape, assault, misogyny, incest, animal abuse, etc...lets just say that vulgarity is commonplace through the entire book (and I'm assuming the rest of the series). Much of it was described or mentioned in passing so kind of left to the readers imagination, but there were a handful of scenes that made me cringe HARD and question what I was reading.
Lastly, I think there's something to be said for the female characters, both the good and the evil ones. War sure as hell would have looked a lot different if the women were allowed to rule and command armies without their male kings and counterparts. Talk about impatient, immature, blood thirsty men who think with the wrong head.
Spoiler alert... if you're looking for dragons, you don't get them until the very last page of the book
I loved the first ~75% of the book. About halfway through I was so ready to give it 5 ⭐ but I had a hard time staying engaged the last 100 pages or so.
There's definitely a lot of details and names to keep straight, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I do think the author does a good job of reminding you who someone is if it's the first few times they've been mentioned or introduced. But there are a LOT of background characters/names that you only read about for a handful of chapters.
I also wasn't sure how I'd feel about some of the rape, assault, misogyny, incest, animal abuse, etc...lets just say that vulgarity is commonplace through the entire book (and I'm assuming the rest of the series). Much of it was described or mentioned in passing so kind of left to the readers imagination, but there were a handful of scenes that made me cringe HARD and question what I was reading.
Lastly, I think there's something to be said for the female characters, both the good and the evil ones. War sure as hell would have looked a lot different if the women were allowed to rule and command armies without their male kings and counterparts. Talk about impatient, immature, blood thirsty men who think with the wrong head.
Spoiler alert... if you're looking for dragons, you don't get them until the very last page of the book
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