false 5 0 false true Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 09 12:03:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:44:08 -0800 2009
This book started my love/hate relationship with GRRM. I fell in love with characters quite easily, and characters I thought I was going to be boring pull 180's on me and turn out to be awesome.

My friends would keep asking me how I was doing in the book who I liked etc. I would reply oh its cool "I'm really liking Eddard", not realizing the tragedy I was setting into.

GRRM has this wonderful way for you to really enjoy or identify with a character and then kill them in a brutal fashion. Nor did I know how this was going to be a continuous pattern.

GRRM did a great job, of setting up this really nice midevil world, that seems nice and he starts destroying it brick by brick.]]>