Paperback, 976 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 2009 by Gigamesh.
Un cometa del color de la sangre hiende el cielo, cargado de malos augurios. Y hay razones sobradas para pensar así: los Siete Reinos se ven sacudidos por las luchas intestinas entre los nobles por la sucesión al Trono de Hierro. En la otra orilla del mar Angosto, la princesa Daenerys Targaryen conduce a su pueblo de jinetes salvajes a través del desierto. Y en los páramos helados del norte, más allá del Muro, un ejército implacable avanza hacia un territorio asolado por el caos y las guerras fratricidas.
1,455 pages down in the series... ????? more to go!
This book is excellent. The battle scenes at the climax are so detailed you'd think the author were a medieval knight. The only reason it gets 4 stars is that even a quarter way into the book you were still getting more recapitulation than necessary.
Boy, this book twists and turns, as it drives the characters further and further apart. Keeping track of all the characters almost seems a futile effort at times, since they're wont to die pretty quickly, then come back just as quickly, thanks to unreliable narration (which is wielded to great effect).
I think the nerds are right on this one, but why, in this genre, are there so many wise people around. You can get an aphorism from a passing mage, a dwarf or your retarded cousin, and after you blow-off your retarded cousin's comment, the mage will say "he is wiser than you know". I read this on the Kindle, so no maps, but, believe it or not, if you check on the internet there are whole galleries of maps of Westeros.
