A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2): The bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES - Softcover

George R.R. Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007548249 ISBN 13: 9780007548248

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2014

Synopsis

HBO s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series. Characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias Guardian Tears: the woman s weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man s weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know . . . Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. Five factions struggle for control of a divided land. Against a backdrop of incest, fratricide, alchemy and murder, the price of glory is measured in blood.

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Review:

George R.R. Martin writes sword-and-sorcery which concentrates on the swords. A Clash of Kings is the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the sequence which began with A Game of Thrones and will take another four volumes to complete. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud; beyond their Northern borders, the men of the Night Watch fight the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it; on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Kingdom's deposed ruling house mourns her horseclan husband and rears the dragonlets she hatched from his funeral pyre. This is character-driven fantasy--we see most events through the eyes of the sons and daughters of the Stark family, the once and future Kings of the North, whose father's judicial murder started the war. Martin avoids the cosy Californian cheeriness of many epic fantasies in favour of a sense of the squalor and grandeur of high medieval life; there is passion here, and misery and charm--and a profound sense of moral ambiguity as we learn to like the Richard III figure in this epic as much as the more virtuous Starks. --Roz Kaveney

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A marvelous sequel to ASOIAF. Lords and commoners alike are drawn into the GREAT GAME. It is dangerous yet not without excitement. GRRM makes you believe as if you are a part of it all. You laugh and weep... You root for the stalwarts and rail as they are swept aside by sheer cunning. But one thing is certain... The story isn't tailored as per the reader's whim. It is it's own tale entirely! --By Swati on 11 May 2017

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007548249
• ISBN 13: 9780007548248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752