A Dance with Dragons

Title: A Dance with Dragons
Author: George R. R. Martin
Published: 2011 originally, this paperback ed. 2012 by Voyager.
Genre: Watch out for them dragons. They kill you.
Pages: 1117 + family trees until the page count is 1184. PLUS 16 pages from the next book.


Finally, on with the show! And I'm all caught up with A Song of Ice and Fire. And now my wait begins. Oh, crap.

Dragons mostly happens simultaneously with the previous book, A Feast for Crows, but we get to hang out with the characters we didn't see in that one. Luckily towards the end of the book the timelines catch up, and we get a glimpse of people left hanging -even literally- at the end of Crows. Martin's still killing them characters all over the place, but new players step up to fight for the iron throne. Some of my favourites were in this one, and every time I was tempted to quick-read or skim over not-so-interesting-a-character's chapter, I always ended up being sucked in, reading every word. Intrigue, murder and so many plots, all around. Plus, one of my favourites lines in a book, ever:


   "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only one."

Maybe even favourite line outside of a book?