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A Song of Ice and Fire (2): A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin
published: 1999, read: 10/3/23
768 pages, genre: Fantasy
rating: 6.083/10, normalized: 5.648/10
-1.062σ worse than average
-1.135σ or -1.188/10 worse than average in Fantasy genre
-1.619σ or -1.835/10 worse than average by George R.R. Martin
First half is rather slow. Lots of staging for the war to come. I don't remember S2 being this slow, but we get a lot more character depth at the expense of very little action: 6
The Qarth/Dany storyline is boring as fuck, and hearing about all the battles between Stannis/Renly Lannister/Rob by Raven through Catelyn Stark is also annoying. It's less annoying than it was in the show because it serves the rhetorical purpose of making those chars seem helpless, but it's still A LOT for a little
The last ~5-10 chapters where Ramsay Bolton seizes Winterfell, Theon becomes a cunt, The Battle of the Blackwater, and Bran becomes a Wharg and Jon becomes a Wildling are good, but that's like 6% of the book, the rest of which is very wanting.
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