What a book, what a book, what a book, what a jolly good book!
It's not jolly at all however. The book starts up slow, random, and even confusing. It's a puzzle unfolding, but then you get the flow, you get lassoed in. It's a story about kings, politics, innocence, rape, murder, war and fighting, in a medieval world, with a mysterious magic lurking. There is not much magic at all in this book, its lurking, and not evident and in your face like Harry Potter. The politics and war isn't between a good and bad as between middle earth and Sauron; Although we begin to feel there IS a good, a bad and an ugly, but it changes as fluid as life is itself. We understand each side. It's almost like the Mahabharata, but told differently, in a different culture, race, a different world.
The story is about the politics and how dirty humans can get. It's about love, infatuation, blindness, loyalty and the opposites of each. It's a story which gets one ready for the real world... a world where everyone is playing a game with your life. I read about the various characters, their personalities, their moves, their weakness, and it strangely reflects real life. I see the game of thrones here in our world politics today, politics at work, the wars between corporations... It has helped me accept the game of life better, waking up to realize I can be whoever I want to be. I can be the wretched Cersei, or Joffrey, or I can be the raw passion of Arya, or blind like the infatuated Sansa. I could be just and righteous like Eddard Stark, and know that even though one means well, there are teams who cheat and are against you. Beware your downfall.
It's an entertaining book, an entertaining way to learn about the brutal world, however there is a certain darkness to it. Although I experience lucid dreams, they have been very dark and troubling whenever I read it before bed time. So I try to read it in the morning, or early evenings. Otherwise the dark tones haunt my dreams and turn them into nightmares.
If you like any of the themes above, or are curious, give the book a try. Once you are sucked in you have to read the next book and the next book and the next. The maps help and downloading some family charts too. There's a lot of characters and its as complex as real life can get.
Breathe! Read! and Enjoy!
It's not jolly at all however. The book starts up slow, random, and even confusing. It's a puzzle unfolding, but then you get the flow, you get lassoed in. It's a story about kings, politics, innocence, rape, murder, war and fighting, in a medieval world, with a mysterious magic lurking. There is not much magic at all in this book, its lurking, and not evident and in your face like Harry Potter. The politics and war isn't between a good and bad as between middle earth and Sauron; Although we begin to feel there IS a good, a bad and an ugly, but it changes as fluid as life is itself. We understand each side. It's almost like the Mahabharata, but told differently, in a different culture, race, a different world.
The story is about the politics and how dirty humans can get. It's about love, infatuation, blindness, loyalty and the opposites of each. It's a story which gets one ready for the real world... a world where everyone is playing a game with your life. I read about the various characters, their personalities, their moves, their weakness, and it strangely reflects real life. I see the game of thrones here in our world politics today, politics at work, the wars between corporations... It has helped me accept the game of life better, waking up to realize I can be whoever I want to be. I can be the wretched Cersei, or Joffrey, or I can be the raw passion of Arya, or blind like the infatuated Sansa. I could be just and righteous like Eddard Stark, and know that even though one means well, there are teams who cheat and are against you. Beware your downfall.
It's an entertaining book, an entertaining way to learn about the brutal world, however there is a certain darkness to it. Although I experience lucid dreams, they have been very dark and troubling whenever I read it before bed time. So I try to read it in the morning, or early evenings. Otherwise the dark tones haunt my dreams and turn them into nightmares.
If you like any of the themes above, or are curious, give the book a try. Once you are sucked in you have to read the next book and the next book and the next. The maps help and downloading some family charts too. There's a lot of characters and its as complex as real life can get.
Breathe! Read! and Enjoy!
