May 03, 2015 05:21 PM
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Winter is Coming.! I seriously have no words to express that feeling when you start reading a book, forgetting everything else around you, guessing about the further events to be unfolded in the upcoming pages, and finally completing the book with a sense of great accomplishment, and yet feeling hesitant to put it back in your bookshelf.
This happened while I read this book, second part of the series, A song of Ice and Water.
This is yet another masterpiece from George R.R.Martin. It's freaking long, with about 875 pages, but in the end you just feel the longing for another hundreds of pages. I completed it in almost 1.5 days, and that has been a heavenly experience.
Continuing where the first part ends, it covers the hullabaloo caused after the nomination of Robb Stark of Winterfell, as the King of the North. The seven kingdoms are claimed by four self-proclaimed kings, the brothers, King Renly and King Stannis Baratheon, along with Joffrey and Robb.
Different events unfold, revealing the atrocities of a war-time, and along with a number of deaths, rapes and mutilations, the story continues. At the end of the world, further the great ice wall, enemy emerges from the dead. A different war is beginning to take place.
Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Arya and Bran Stark are my favourite characters, but to be honest, the characters which are most close to my heart, are the Direwolves- Summer, Ghost, Grey wind and Nymeria, even though the last two are not mentioned in this part of the series.
Also, at some parts of the book, I correctly predicted the outcomes, but this feeling was more of the ecstasy, on sharing the same connections with the author, rather than the feeling of irritation because of the hackneyed structures of certain other books.
In short, this is a must read.
PS- I have heard good reviews about the television series adapted from the A song of Ice and Water too, but as always I will watch them after completing the novels first. I just hope the television series is at least half as good as the novels. I'll be more than happy with that.
Keep reading.:)