![]() ![]() It remains to be seen whether I’m going to carry on with the later books in the series – and perhaps, if I do, they’ll grow on me – but at the moment I feel rather lukewarm about it all. ![]() The fifth book in the series has now been translated (each instalment lovingly bearing that Martin quote on the cover), and so they’re obviously doing very well and there are lots of people who are itching to discover what happens to the Capetian royal family. ![]() Now, I was reconciled to the lack of direwolves, but I’m going to diverge slightly from Helen’s opinion in any case, because the book unfortunately didn’t impress me all that much. Martin (‘This is the original Game of Thrones‘) has actually worked against the book in some ways: some eager fantasy readers have ended up with rather more medieval intrigue and rather fewer direwolves than they’d counted on, and so some reviews have been critical because people have, fundamentally, just been expecting the wrong kind of book. As Helen mentioned, the quote blazoned on the cover from George R.R. I’m fully aware that I’m late to the party: I remember that Helen read it, and liked it, in March last year. ![]() I imagine many of you will already have tackled this book, which was published in a new edition with much fanfare about a year ago. ![]()
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