A Game of Thrones (Hardback reissue): The bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES: Book 1 (A Song of Ice and Fire)

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Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances.

million copies of the first four volumes in print in early 2011, [55] the four volumes re-appeared on the paperback fiction bestseller lists in the second quarter of 2011. A Game of Thrones was profoundly shocking when I first read it, and fundamentally changed my notions about what could be done with epic fantasy. The fourth and fifth volumes both reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller lists when published in 2005 and 2011. The Christian Science Monitor advised reading the novels with an A Song of Ice and Fire encyclopedia at hand to "catch all the layered, subtle hints and details that [Martin] leaves throughout his books.Sweeping from a region of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. However, the book slowly won the passionate advocacy of independent booksellers and the book's popularity grew by word of mouth. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. Martin found that some characters had minds of their own and took his writing in different directions.

According to the Los Angeles Times, "Martin's brilliance in evoking atmosphere through description is an enduring hallmark of his fiction, the settings much more than just props on a painted stage", and the novels captivate readers with "complex storylines, fascinating characters, great dialogue, perfect pacing, and the willingness to kill off even his major characters". In May 2019, he reiterated he had not started writing A Dream of Spring and would not do so before finishing The Winds of Winter. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it’s like sinking into a sea of warm milk.At the centre of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to.