I’m hoping her plotline will pick up in the next book as she is an interesting character. I felt quite bored reading her chapters because nothing much was happening to drive her story forward. ![]() Sadly Daenerys’s plotline was rather uneventful. I’m guessing at some point it was no longer in the sky, but considering such emphasis was placed on it, it seemed odd that it was never referred to again later on. There was a lot of emphasis on the red comet blazing through the sky at the beginning of the book, but then allusions to it sort of disappeared. It does get a little confusing at times trying to remember who belongs to what house and who is allied with whom. Many of the characters have now been well and truly separated, meaning it feels like there are more threads to try and keep track of. With Westeros divided, there are plenty of rivalries and tensions between the various houses to provide conflict. I wondered whether A Clash of Kings could live up to the high bar set by the first book, and while I think I enjoyed A Game of Thrones more, there was still plenty to love about A Clash of Kings. For contextualisation, this is my first time reading the book series A Song of Ice and Fire and I haven’t watched any of the TV series. Having read A Game of Thrones last year and being completely sucked in, it was no surprise that I picked up its sequel, A Clash of Kings. Brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky – a comet the colour of blood and flame – five factions struggle for control of a divided land. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. ![]() Publishing Info: July 2011 by HarperVoyager (first published 1998)
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