A Game of Thrones

This book is very dark and has some disturbing content. I did find that I could see the content coming and I could skip the paragraph or page without losing the content of the story. I would caution more conservative readers that there are discussions of rape and a lot of death and violence. I did not think it was as bad as many other books I've encountered and I suspect that the HBO show may have made the content worse than it was presented in the book.
As far as the story line, characters and wold building it was excellent.