cledge's Full Review: George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings: Book Two of...
"A Clash of Kings", book two of George R.R. Martin's wonderful fantasy saga 'A Song of Ice and Fire' is even more brilliant than the first one "A Game of Thrones". Martin continues to draw the reader into the story with his style and his touch of reality. With each turn of a page the reader delves deeper and deeper into the story, and discovers themselves transported into a tale of love and hate, magic and dragons, and honor and revenge.
Martin's characters continue to weave the reader into their lives and adventures. Tyrion Lannister, the brother to Queen Cersei, with his mis-matched eyes and crooked legs is a character you both love and hate. As sly and cunning as the best of them, at one moment he's thwarting the Queen's plans and implementing his own, and the next saving young Sansa Stark from his nephew Joffrey, the new king. Tyrion always leaves you wondering what he's really up to. Sansa Stark, betrothed to King Joffrey, is a prisoner of war. After being forced to watch her father beheaded as a traitor she lives in constant fear. Her brother Robb is now King of the North and is at war with the south and Joffrey's army. For every battle Robb wins, Joffrey takes his anger out on Sansa. She learns to late that the Hound, one of the kingsguard, truly was a good man at heart and protected her when he could. Sadly she couldn't get past how his scarred face always terrified her. Jon Snow, bastard son of Eddard Stark, is a member of the Night Watch, and has a direwolf named Ghost as a companion. Jon fought an inner battle, should he join his half brother Robb at war or keep his vows to guard the wall, a massive wall of ice considered the end of the world. His choice made, Jon now finds himself north of the wall with his new brothers, in the land of wildlings and where the dead return to walk the land. He's about to face an enemy army which contains things he's only heard of in old stories. Jon knows not that while his brother wages war in the south and he himself about to meet the enemy north of the wall, their family home, Winterfell, is about to be taken by one who once was a friend.
Martin takes twists and turns with both the story and the characters, making it hard to ever put the book down. I for one look forward to reading book three of the saga "A Storm of Swords".
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