Hardcover, 1016 pages
English language
Published July 12, 2011 by Harper Voyager.
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.
Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.
Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding …
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.
Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.
Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.
From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.
четвертий та п'ятий томи трохи дивні: хронологію поламано заради... казна чого.
Wow this book really isn't doing it for me so I'm abandoning this series, and that feels awesome.
If you're expecting this book to bring closure to the series, you'll be as disappointed as I was. Previously marginal characters are now featured, as the author tries to extend the storyline. Everything is still well-written and entertaining, but it now feels like product rather than art. The series peaked with the third book and would have been better served to end with this one.
Another great piece in Martin's saga. Love the characters, the deeply tangled story that always stays logical and never cheesy or predictable.
Le cinquième tome tant attendu de la saga de George R.R. Martin, et dernier tome publié à ce jour. Après A Feast for Crows qui m'a un peu laissé sur sa faim, celui-ci m'avait beaucoup plu.
Me costó cogerle el ritmo... Después a la mitad me aburrió de sobremanera; pero las últimas 500 páginas me las he bebido
Can't wait for the next one!
Huzzah! I finally finished the latest ASOIAF novel. Now I just get to enjoy the long, agonizing wait until The Winds Of Winter is released.
So I've finally caught up to ASOIAF. I have to wait for Winds of Winter to release. Martin is great at ending a book right where you want more, where you have to know what happens next. The same feeling that gets you saying "One more chapter, one more chapter" as you go from Tyrion to Daenerys to Jon Snow to Bran. It's going to be a long wait to find out what happens next.
Weak in comparison to Storm of Swords, but still an excellent, fast paced fantasy with lots of gore and romance. Can't wait for Winds of Winter!
There are some great moments in this book, but they are pretty far between. The book has very little forward momentum. I will say this though, it feels like the series is set up for an quite a return in the next book.
Although a satirist's wet dream, basically it is a genre story of sadism. Every joke is a jape, every coward a craven. Nobody in this created word has discovered the number 50; it is always half a hundred. To quote a reviewer on Amazon, "nothing good happens to anybody". Interestingly, it would be great as a single book - after several thousand pages one feels dirty.
I really don't know what to say, other than IT'S LONG. It might be my least favorite of the five, and my dislike for it is compounded by the fact that I had to wait FOREVER for it to be published. To me, it left like they cut parts out of A Feast For Crows that didn't advance the plot and just shoved them into A Dance With Dragons.
In short: NOTHING HAPPENS.
For a book titled "Dance With Dragons", I actually expected the dragons in the book to - I don't know - DO SHIT. Instead, I get Bran turning into an omnipotent tree.
I know that George R. R. Martin is not my bitch (shout out to Neil Gaiman...yo!), but the dude better put his editing of compilation novels aside and churn out the next book as soon as possible to held get rid of the bad taste …
I really don't know what to say, other than IT'S LONG. It might be my least favorite of the five, and my dislike for it is compounded by the fact that I had to wait FOREVER for it to be published. To me, it left like they cut parts out of A Feast For Crows that didn't advance the plot and just shoved them into A Dance With Dragons.
In short: NOTHING HAPPENS.
For a book titled "Dance With Dragons", I actually expected the dragons in the book to - I don't know - DO SHIT. Instead, I get Bran turning into an omnipotent tree.
I know that George R. R. Martin is not my bitch (shout out to Neil Gaiman...yo!), but the dude better put his editing of compilation novels aside and churn out the next book as soon as possible to held get rid of the bad taste this one left me...
Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire, in which everyone's fortunes seem to go from bad to worse. I loved it. :) Can't wait for the next one!
The problem with reading a long-running epic series with a zillion plot threads and a zillion zillion characters as it's being released is remembering what was going on in the previous books. And since this book picked up the plot lines of the characters from two books
ago, that was a lot for me to remember. I really could have used a "Previously, in Song of Ice and Fire..." summary at the beginning of the book. (Next time: use the internet! That is what it is there for!)
This book is of course a continuation of the series and in many ways more of the same GRRM we've come to expect. Many points of view and many interleaving and very complex plots. And a lot lot of words in general. It is, in terms of the series, neither better nor worse than any other book in the series. A middle …
The problem with reading a long-running epic series with a zillion plot threads and a zillion zillion characters as it's being released is remembering what was going on in the previous books. And since this book picked up the plot lines of the characters from two books
ago, that was a lot for me to remember. I really could have used a "Previously, in Song of Ice and Fire..." summary at the beginning of the book. (Next time: use the internet! That is what it is there for!)
This book is of course a continuation of the series and in many ways more of the same GRRM we've come to expect. Many points of view and many interleaving and very complex plots. And a lot lot of words in general. It is, in terms of the series, neither better nor worse than any other book in the series. A middle book.
In terms of the series I liked the first three books and found myself disenchanted with the fourth because the plot seemed to have spun out of control; I wasn't convinced that GRRM would be able to rein it back in again. Also I wasn't entirely pleased with the direction the plot had taken for some characters. With this book I can see the plot slightly coming back together again, and that gives me hope, although I still have concerns. I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. I'm not entirely disgusted any more. I hope there will be less of a wait for the next book.
