Valar Morghulis--Valar Dohaeris discussion
A Song of Ice and Fire
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JUST FINISHED: A Storm of Swords *SPOILS THE ENTIRE BOOK*
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learning about the Wall's history and the history of all that outpost was fascinating. all those crazy historical characters. such atmosphere!
Since the start that I allways loved the Wall, not only the place but all that it stands for as well, so seeing (view spoiler).Btw, just bought AFFC today but I have other books that I would like to read first. It will be quite a fight being able to resist the temptation of reading it.
Nothing has ever grabbed me and pulled me so much into it like this one. There wasn't a single chapter that i thought boring, and if it wasnt for some gruesome parts i could have just read it in a few days.
My opinion about some events in the book are in the spoiler.
(view spoiler)[What to say about the Starks? Isnt there anything good coming for them? I'm really putting my hopes high for Bran...! I just had to stop reading this after the red wedding, it caught me completely by surprise. And the most awful part of this saga until this moment has to be what they've done to Robb and Cat, i couldnt just believe the old frey, black walder, lothar and bolton could have gone so low. I really dont know what to think about Cat resurrection in the end, i was never a big fan of her, but i guess we will see the "deadlier" side of her.
Daenerys is just unbelievable, after the house of the undying in book 2 every chapter of her is just more and more addictive! Loved the way she just owned Astapor and Yunkai. I hoope we now can see the rise of a queen in Meeren. For me, all the process of Daenerys coming to this point its where GRRM does his best job, its just so real.
In the wall i guess we can say that everything went really better than expected for me.
I didn't thought he could just leave Ygritte (her dead is one of the best moments till now "You know nothing, Jon Snow", gotta love that). After some great chapters in which we see Jon being a true and mature leader keeping the wild lings away, he just had to be first choice for Lord Commander. The proposal of Stannis just smelled really bad, Melissandre, in my opinion, is one of the most enigmatic and scary characters in saga.
Just to finish, GRRM just had to made us forgive Jaime didn't he? I guess that Vargo Hoat taking his hand off was the best thing that could've happened to this character!
PS: And what about Tyrion? I really liked Tywin, but at that point i couldn't hold a huge smile for being able to finally see who he really was and for the ironic way he died. (hide spoiler)]