Apparently I feel I am overdue on writing a review on the last 15 or so chapters... Holy Enchiladas!
Let's start of with Dany. Her chapters seem a little dull, although she's in Quarth, has a dragon, is totally smokin hot, single now, and is really driven to take back the throne. If I were her I would let my past go, meditate, and move East with 'what's his face' Mornmont, and life happily ever after with dragons. Oh no, she must have ships to take back what is hers, because after she lost everything, and lost everything again, only war and getting her parent's throne back will make everything ok. Bah! She decides to go into Pyath Pree's (yes there is a character named Pree! but he is not nice at all), house of the living dead, or some such tourist trap. She walks through it with her dragon Drogo, and has visions, speaks to dead people and psychedelic mumbo-jumbo, or if you wish to call it spiritual you may do so. So it leaves us there with that. Her chapters are spaced out and few in this book. Either way I'm just glad her vile brother is not abusing her anymore.
After realizing she had 2 inconsequential men killed, Arya realizes she need Jaquen (spelling) to kill the Tywinn. She can't find Jaquen anywhere though. So she just keeps her eyes, and ears open, and goes about her duties as the little servant person. By night she plays and prays at the wierwood or Godswood I'm so confused by these damned trees, the trees her forefathers prayed too... the magical ones with faces. While playing Jaquen approaches her and asks her to name a third. She does, she says Jaquen. He asks her to take the name back, for a friend would not do this to a friend. She says only after he helps her, for friends help each other. I forgot to mention, that in between a whole bunch of men who ride under the Stark banner and other banners allied with the Starks were captured and put in the dungeons there. So she says to Jaquen, if you help me free them, I will take the name back. He is true to his word. He sets off, gives her instructions to make some broth. So she goes to the kitchen and does so. She realizes that this Jaquen seems to be magical for how did he get the other two mysteriously killed? Anyway one of the other guys who she had set free with Jaquen way back when, orders her to bring the broth. So they take the broth down to the dungeons for the guards and pour it all over them, while another slays the guards. Arya releases the prisoners, and Halenhaal falls to the Starks! Arya names herself Nymeria, since Weasel is a mean name. She is appointed as somebody somebody's maid. Jaquen takes Arya's leave and infront of her kills his old self and dons a new face... he gives her his business card (or something to that effect), if she ever needs him she should go to Braavos, and seek him out. Dun dun dun!
In the mean time, Bran's warg dream and Jojan's green dream come true. Theon has taken over Winterfell, and is killed the two guys Jojen had foreseen dying - Mikken and another. Very sad. Osha pledges allegiance to Theon, and so does a stinky prisoner named Reek. Bran being a child, Theon tells him it's best you yield and you will be my ward... or something to that effect. Theon is a major #$%#@ Bran yields, sweet little cripple Bran. Life goes on, and one day, Theon wakes up to find Bran missing. Here's how two chapters/ characters collide. Theon sets out a search party (he has the joy of f#@$%ing whores in Eddard Stark's bed), and they realize Meera, Jojen, Bran, Rickon, Hodor and Osha are on foot, along with the Direwolves. This should eb an easy catch, but find no trace of them after the stream, even the dogs can't trace them. Reek thinks they are at the mill, and Theon sends everyone including Maester Luwin back. He comes back with two bodies. He puts the heads on the wall. Osha arrives and makes a couple of points, 1- as a Greyjoy their power lies in the sea, and he has wandered far to inland 2 - he has done so with too few men, far too few! 3- it is folly that he stays there for now everyone in the north is his enemy, and they were not able to win the fight at one other place thanks to Ser Rodrek (captain of Winterfell) 4- he shouldn't have killed the boys, he should have kept them as hostages for leverage. This gives me good hope and confidence that Theon is truly f#@$ed by all means. He has it coming, but as stubborn, prideful, and arrogant as he is he won't leave Winterfell for he is King there now. He points out by killing the 2 boys he has avenged his two brothers, and his father will be proud of him. Osha leaves, leaving him with only 10 men. Theon orders Reek to raise another hundred, and sends him off with money. He worries for Reek is the only one who knows what Theon did. Theon had the Miller's boys killed and used their bodies as evidence of Bran and Rickon's death. Yaaaay! Bran lives! Theon goes to sleep and has dreams of the feast when King Robert visited. However slowly everyone at the table becomes dead, and he wakes very disturbed. Oh how the ghosts of our past take vengeance and eat us in our sleep.
Jon and the lot set out, and Jon begins getting warg dreams too. He sees what is on the other side of the mountain waiting for them. Ghost comes back injured. Jon lets a wilding girl who would have killed him, go. Her name was Yigrett. Anyway the north just seems bleak. Jon finds out the Starks have wilding blood in them or something, and also Mance would keep him alive and not kill him. Mance was once a black brother, but he left... atleast that's what I understood.
Alot of things happen at Kingslanding, and we have Tyrion's perspective, and Sansa's. Tyrion sends Petry to speak to the ex- wife of Renly to see if she would take Joffrey's hand in marriage. He sends Mycella off far away, and sends Joffrey's heir - Tommen, some place safe. So Cersei is pissed, cause all her kids are kind of gone, Maester Pycelle is dead. Cersei finds out that Tyrion means to send Joffrey to war against Stannis. She does not want this, however Tyrion points out that 1- men follow a lord who connects with them 2- who fights besides them 3- men will not follow a guy who hides behind his mother's skirts. Cersei is pissed off even more. I hope Joff dies, and so does pretty Sansa. Anyway, in the mean time Tyrion is in love with Shae, and the queen reveals to him that she has his Whore. Tyrion is super sad, but tries not to show it. They bring the whore in front of him, and lo and behold it is Alayaya (virgin whore, who is Tyrion's cover for his visits to Shae). Tyrion says - if you hurt my whore I will make sure both Mycella and Tommen are raped/ beaten. Cersei let's Alayaya the innocent girl go. The thing is Tyrion doesn't want his nephews and nieces hurt, he continues to do what's good for the Lannisters, but Cersei is a paranoid queen. Everyone thinks Tyrion awful cause of his looks, but he has a heart, more so than any of the other Lannisters. When they were seeing Mycella off at the docks, the people mobbed the "Royal" Family, with some help of King Joffrey's arrogant and ignorant orders. One of the families girl's gets raped by men, and Sansa is hit on her head and suffers some injuries. Tyrion realizes they are not safe at the Keep, and must double security.
Sansa in the mean time plots with her knight, but things go very slow. He says he has a friend within who will help once he returns from a trip. Sansa becomes anxious, especially when one morning she wakes up and she has her period. She panics and sets her bed ablaze, anyway the Queen finds out. Poor Sansa and her silly dreams of Knights and Heroes, she's slowly waking up to reality, the hard hard way. Sansa like Arya prays every night for the death of Joffrey and others.
Oh boy! Davos this new pirate turned knight is instructed by Stannis to go by night with that Melisandre to go to Storms End and take the bastard from some lord who wont yield. So with the help of black magic, and a shadow which Davos knew, they seize the bastard. Maybe the bastard was Robert's true heir. Anyway later on Davos knows it, but none of the other captains of Stannis' fleet of ships would listen to a Onion Knight, they get ambushed at sea at Kings Landing. What a shame.
Last but not least - Catelyn - she is at Riverun and gets the news of Bran and Rickon dying. She worries about Arya and Sansa, memories come back to her. She tells Brienne, the only person she tells. When she says it, it feels like she is making it true. She plots to talk and get answers from Jaime. She goes to the cellar after midnight with Brienne, and she gets him to 1- admit that Joffrey et al are his sons 2- he pushed Bran out of the window 3- everything he ever did was for Cersei 4- he's only ever slept with Cersei 5- the truth of how Ned's brother and father died. In exchange she tells Jaime that his father, Tywinn, Son and Cersei are all ok. She then takes Brienne's sword....
Blimey!
Breathe!
Let's start of with Dany. Her chapters seem a little dull, although she's in Quarth, has a dragon, is totally smokin hot, single now, and is really driven to take back the throne. If I were her I would let my past go, meditate, and move East with 'what's his face' Mornmont, and life happily ever after with dragons. Oh no, she must have ships to take back what is hers, because after she lost everything, and lost everything again, only war and getting her parent's throne back will make everything ok. Bah! She decides to go into Pyath Pree's (yes there is a character named Pree! but he is not nice at all), house of the living dead, or some such tourist trap. She walks through it with her dragon Drogo, and has visions, speaks to dead people and psychedelic mumbo-jumbo, or if you wish to call it spiritual you may do so. So it leaves us there with that. Her chapters are spaced out and few in this book. Either way I'm just glad her vile brother is not abusing her anymore.
After realizing she had 2 inconsequential men killed, Arya realizes she need Jaquen (spelling) to kill the Tywinn. She can't find Jaquen anywhere though. So she just keeps her eyes, and ears open, and goes about her duties as the little servant person. By night she plays and prays at the wierwood or Godswood I'm so confused by these damned trees, the trees her forefathers prayed too... the magical ones with faces. While playing Jaquen approaches her and asks her to name a third. She does, she says Jaquen. He asks her to take the name back, for a friend would not do this to a friend. She says only after he helps her, for friends help each other. I forgot to mention, that in between a whole bunch of men who ride under the Stark banner and other banners allied with the Starks were captured and put in the dungeons there. So she says to Jaquen, if you help me free them, I will take the name back. He is true to his word. He sets off, gives her instructions to make some broth. So she goes to the kitchen and does so. She realizes that this Jaquen seems to be magical for how did he get the other two mysteriously killed? Anyway one of the other guys who she had set free with Jaquen way back when, orders her to bring the broth. So they take the broth down to the dungeons for the guards and pour it all over them, while another slays the guards. Arya releases the prisoners, and Halenhaal falls to the Starks! Arya names herself Nymeria, since Weasel is a mean name. She is appointed as somebody somebody's maid. Jaquen takes Arya's leave and infront of her kills his old self and dons a new face... he gives her his business card (or something to that effect), if she ever needs him she should go to Braavos, and seek him out. Dun dun dun!
In the mean time, Bran's warg dream and Jojan's green dream come true. Theon has taken over Winterfell, and is killed the two guys Jojen had foreseen dying - Mikken and another. Very sad. Osha pledges allegiance to Theon, and so does a stinky prisoner named Reek. Bran being a child, Theon tells him it's best you yield and you will be my ward... or something to that effect. Theon is a major #$%#@ Bran yields, sweet little cripple Bran. Life goes on, and one day, Theon wakes up to find Bran missing. Here's how two chapters/ characters collide. Theon sets out a search party (he has the joy of f#@$%ing whores in Eddard Stark's bed), and they realize Meera, Jojen, Bran, Rickon, Hodor and Osha are on foot, along with the Direwolves. This should eb an easy catch, but find no trace of them after the stream, even the dogs can't trace them. Reek thinks they are at the mill, and Theon sends everyone including Maester Luwin back. He comes back with two bodies. He puts the heads on the wall. Osha arrives and makes a couple of points, 1- as a Greyjoy their power lies in the sea, and he has wandered far to inland 2 - he has done so with too few men, far too few! 3- it is folly that he stays there for now everyone in the north is his enemy, and they were not able to win the fight at one other place thanks to Ser Rodrek (captain of Winterfell) 4- he shouldn't have killed the boys, he should have kept them as hostages for leverage. This gives me good hope and confidence that Theon is truly f#@$ed by all means. He has it coming, but as stubborn, prideful, and arrogant as he is he won't leave Winterfell for he is King there now. He points out by killing the 2 boys he has avenged his two brothers, and his father will be proud of him. Osha leaves, leaving him with only 10 men. Theon orders Reek to raise another hundred, and sends him off with money. He worries for Reek is the only one who knows what Theon did. Theon had the Miller's boys killed and used their bodies as evidence of Bran and Rickon's death. Yaaaay! Bran lives! Theon goes to sleep and has dreams of the feast when King Robert visited. However slowly everyone at the table becomes dead, and he wakes very disturbed. Oh how the ghosts of our past take vengeance and eat us in our sleep.
Jon and the lot set out, and Jon begins getting warg dreams too. He sees what is on the other side of the mountain waiting for them. Ghost comes back injured. Jon lets a wilding girl who would have killed him, go. Her name was Yigrett. Anyway the north just seems bleak. Jon finds out the Starks have wilding blood in them or something, and also Mance would keep him alive and not kill him. Mance was once a black brother, but he left... atleast that's what I understood.
Alot of things happen at Kingslanding, and we have Tyrion's perspective, and Sansa's. Tyrion sends Petry to speak to the ex- wife of Renly to see if she would take Joffrey's hand in marriage. He sends Mycella off far away, and sends Joffrey's heir - Tommen, some place safe. So Cersei is pissed, cause all her kids are kind of gone, Maester Pycelle is dead. Cersei finds out that Tyrion means to send Joffrey to war against Stannis. She does not want this, however Tyrion points out that 1- men follow a lord who connects with them 2- who fights besides them 3- men will not follow a guy who hides behind his mother's skirts. Cersei is pissed off even more. I hope Joff dies, and so does pretty Sansa. Anyway, in the mean time Tyrion is in love with Shae, and the queen reveals to him that she has his Whore. Tyrion is super sad, but tries not to show it. They bring the whore in front of him, and lo and behold it is Alayaya (virgin whore, who is Tyrion's cover for his visits to Shae). Tyrion says - if you hurt my whore I will make sure both Mycella and Tommen are raped/ beaten. Cersei let's Alayaya the innocent girl go. The thing is Tyrion doesn't want his nephews and nieces hurt, he continues to do what's good for the Lannisters, but Cersei is a paranoid queen. Everyone thinks Tyrion awful cause of his looks, but he has a heart, more so than any of the other Lannisters. When they were seeing Mycella off at the docks, the people mobbed the "Royal" Family, with some help of King Joffrey's arrogant and ignorant orders. One of the families girl's gets raped by men, and Sansa is hit on her head and suffers some injuries. Tyrion realizes they are not safe at the Keep, and must double security.
Sansa in the mean time plots with her knight, but things go very slow. He says he has a friend within who will help once he returns from a trip. Sansa becomes anxious, especially when one morning she wakes up and she has her period. She panics and sets her bed ablaze, anyway the Queen finds out. Poor Sansa and her silly dreams of Knights and Heroes, she's slowly waking up to reality, the hard hard way. Sansa like Arya prays every night for the death of Joffrey and others.
Oh boy! Davos this new pirate turned knight is instructed by Stannis to go by night with that Melisandre to go to Storms End and take the bastard from some lord who wont yield. So with the help of black magic, and a shadow which Davos knew, they seize the bastard. Maybe the bastard was Robert's true heir. Anyway later on Davos knows it, but none of the other captains of Stannis' fleet of ships would listen to a Onion Knight, they get ambushed at sea at Kings Landing. What a shame.
Last but not least - Catelyn - she is at Riverun and gets the news of Bran and Rickon dying. She worries about Arya and Sansa, memories come back to her. She tells Brienne, the only person she tells. When she says it, it feels like she is making it true. She plots to talk and get answers from Jaime. She goes to the cellar after midnight with Brienne, and she gets him to 1- admit that Joffrey et al are his sons 2- he pushed Bran out of the window 3- everything he ever did was for Cersei 4- he's only ever slept with Cersei 5- the truth of how Ned's brother and father died. In exchange she tells Jaime that his father, Tywinn, Son and Cersei are all ok. She then takes Brienne's sword....
Blimey!
Breathe!
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| Winter is Coming - By Jayson M. |
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