A Song Of Fire And Ice
George RR Martin
"I found out about the series A Song of Ice and Fire from a friend of mine who often recommended fantasy books to me, and I usually loved everything that he passed my way. So I ran out and picked it up.
This is a fantasy series that, in short, follows the lives of several different royal families and their struggles amongst themselves, amongst supernatural forces and everyone's sort of struggle for power. Every single character is relatable in some way. I would have to say that my favorite character was sort of the "bastard son" who was sent away. I thought he was kind of fascinating, and that sort of idea of being an outsider in the family was kind of appealing to me.
I haven't read a lot of books that actually gives you the perspective of the bad guy so much, that gives a human aspect to pretty much everyone. That's great; that's real life. That's how, nobody's completely one-dimensional and just bad. So it's great to see the softer side or the more vulnerable side of somebody who, from another person's perspective, seems like the devil himself.
I'd definitely recommend the series to people who may not know that they like fantasy novels, that may be put off by the whole fantasy title and wizards and dragons, and geeky stuff. Yeah, don't hold that to this series necessarily. This would actually be a good place to sort of explore and see if you like that, because it's so well written, the characters are so great - yeah, there are dragons. There are. But they're cool! I would give this series, A Song of Ice and Fire, five stars."
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