A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire #1 by George R.R. Martin.
Phew, let me wipe that imaginary sweat off my brow, and say that if this
wasn't in paperback edition, I would've
happily used it as a doorstop before I commenced in reading it, because for some reason I'm the kind of person/reader who is
perpetually drawn to the large, heavy tomes rather than smaller ones, but when the time comes that I actually pick them up to read them, I'm left shaking my head, not knowing what the hell I was thinking to even pick them up in the first place. Ideally, it was a goal of mine to finish the first novel in this series before summer semester at uni started, and while that ended up not being the case (my reading habits took a bit of a nose-dive last month), the
good news is that I've read about
75% of it!
Knowing
nothing about the HBO
Game of Thrones series, and not being much a fan of fantasy literature at any rate (historical fiction is what I tend to prefer, where
fantasy, save for some series, is just a genre that I just don't tend to gravitate towards anymore), I just
had to see for myself, in regards to this series, what the world was going essentially
ape-shit insane over, and so wanted to share some of my thoughts on it so far! 😁
