killing eddard stark was the best decision GRRM made for making the book stand out from other fantasy. the main POV character, someone we sympathise with heavily, basically the audience stand in in terms of the conspiracy around Jon arryn, every convention of fantasy writing leads the reader to believe he'll survive and go to the wall, but GRRM subverts our expectation in a way that gives
A Game of Thrones, while being the title of the HBO series, is the 1st book in a (planned) series of 7 called "A Song of Ice and Fire". Essentially, George RR Martin set out to write an epic story set on a massive scale: hundreds of characters strewn across a large world, rich lore, and countless reasons for wanting to throw your book directly at his face (in a good way!).
start with the first book (a game of thrones) and read the main series first. world of ice and fire and fire and blood are more like history books and can probably pretty uniteresting if you havent read the main series and arent invested in the world
City of Thrones, the 7th sequel show and 47th installment in the Game of Thrones universe, set thousands of years after the original series events in a very different Earth, that now resembles our own world.* By all means read TWOIAF parallel with the other books, or skip it if you don't want to read it. Reading Order 3. 2. A Game of Thrones The Hedge Knight* A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords The Sworn Sword The Mystery Knight The World of Ice and Fire: "Ancient History" to "The Glorious Reign" A Feast for Dragons or Boiled Leather
Woodstovia • 2 yr. ago Fire and Blood is very seperate from the main series, if your goal is just to read it before HOTD then you're fine reading it before the main series you don't need to read ASOIAF for it to make sense. This book has been suggested 1 time. Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1) By: Andrzej Sapkowski, Danusia Stok | 398 pages | Published: 1994 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, the-witcher, audiobook. The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. There are several versions. I have never seen any evidence of this. I am a huge fans of both the ASOIAF books and audiobooks in general, and I am 99% sure that the only official versions in existence are all 5 books narrated by Roy Dotrice, and Book 4 narrated by John Lee. George R. R. Martin is the author, and he does not have the best voice HSdbRQ.