A Song of Ice and Fire 2: A Clash of Kings

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This book didn't enthral me the same was that the first book of the series did. It was still however a really good read, just not quite on par with the first book.

I actually took nearly 4 months to read this book, this was in part due to the pace of the story at the beginning of the book, but mostly it was due to my anticipation of the final Wheel of Time book not leaving me the will or concentration to read other books.

I would definitely recommend this book, but I hope the next book in this series is more like the first one.



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Wheel of Time 14: A Memory of Light

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Brilliant, I want to read it again straight away.

I have been reading and rereading the Wheel of Time series for roughly the last 10 years. I started reading it because a book shop had a 3 for 2 offer on fantasy books, and there were only 2 books I needed from another series, I can't even remember which series that was. I am so glad that I picked up The Eye of the World and thought, this might be a good read. Yes it bloody well was, and the series has had me hooked since.

I have been so excited about this book, I read all of the preview bits that were released and thought they were brilliant, they just made me more excited about the actual book. I preordered the book from amazon last May, and for the week before release day I kept checking my amazon account to see when my copy had been dispatched. When I finally saw that it had been dispatched, I made a strange excited squeaking noise. On the estimated delivery day, I couldn't leave the house in case I missed the postman, I couldn't have the TV or radio on in case I didn't hear the door bell. When the postman arrived with my book, I about hugged him.

Now with the final book of the Wheel of Time in my filthy little mits, I was overcome with mixed emotions. Excited to find out what happens, sad that the series is ending and that I will never again be able to read this book, or another book in this series for the first time, worried because characters that I have grown very attached to would probably die in the last battle. So I just sat hugging the book, and smelling its booky goodness for about half an hour.

When I started reading it, I tried to read it slowly, 1 chapter, do something else, another chapter. I wanted to savour this book. By a third of the way through that plan went out the window, I needed to gorge myself on this book. I could not put it down, I needed to know what happened next.

This book did not disappoint at all, thank you so much Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, this series will always be part of my life, I can see myself still rereading it in 20, 30, even 40 years time.

I really hope that at some point there will be more prequels to go along with A New Spring, I would love to find out how Moiraine and Lan found the Dragon Reborn in the Two Rivers.



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