Slight chipping to the ends of the spine, edges of the covers, and some chipping to the top edge of the front cover. For her three choices, Arya selects Chiswyck, a soldier in Gregor Clegane's forces, Weese, her servant overseer, and Jaqen H'ghar himself. Set in a time eighty-nine years before the events depicted in A Game of Thrones, these stories relate the adventures of a hedge knight, Dunk, and his young squire, Egg. A Clash of Kings depicts the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros in civil war, while the Night's Watch mounts a reconnaissance to investigate the mysterious people known as wildlings.

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Hunted by wildling warriors and facing certain defeat, Halfhand commands Jon to infiltrate the wildlings and learn their plans. Joff Lannister, who is still a young boy, has recently become king, but Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon both want the crown for themselves. Enraged when his brother Renly also makes a claim for the throne, Stannis chooses to besiege his own home castle of Storm's End to force Renly to march east and treat with him. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves.But what I did like were the battle scenes and absorbing conversations between Tyrion and almost any other character. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel .

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He finds two new friends when Jojen and Meera Reed, children of Eddard Stark's close friend Lord Howland, arrive from Greywater Watch and take an interest in his dreams. After Tyrion sends Mrycella to Dorne, a riot ensues in King’s Landing, and some nobles lose their lives. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. R. Martin is a genius in storytelling as I once believed, but he is a genius in constructing war to a realistic extent. If you're a little bit of a mixed-up sadist who loves plot elements that come from nowhere and then never show up again as the only reprieves from a litany of confusing motives, guards who will murder and rape anything so long as they're told, and writing that started strong but ultimately leads nowhere and pulls another slaughter and/or rape and/or out-of-character turn from openly good to outright evil every time it's bored, then by all means, pick this book up.

Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world. Clash of Kings adds depth to the characters that were introduced and is much, much more explicit than the first novel. 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. The recruits are attacked by Lannister forces, and the survivors are taken to the gigantic castle of Harrenhal, which is controlled by Joffrey's grandfather Tywin Lannister. What is shocking in the first few chapters becomes another Tuesday morning if you do it in every subsequent chapter; I can't be shocked forever.