The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

The World of Ice and Fire

The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

2014 • 336 pages

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Average rating4.1

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I know I'm the oddball here, but I just didn't find anything or anyone interesting enough to make me want to put up with another few hundred thousand pages. His world is peppered with fascinating little hints of the magic that used to be commonplace, and I love that sort of thing, but ... you have to give me something in the here and now too.

If he'd stuck to fewer POV characters, I might have come to care for someone, anyone. If he'd revealed something before the last moments of the last chapter, I might want to come back for more. But he didn't and I don't.

December 28, 2014