A deep, nuanced review of Game of Thrones
Thursdays are job hunting day for me. Also general tidying, grocery shopping, errand running, what have you.
Today, though, I couldn’t do anything until I’d finished reading Game of Thrones. I sat in bed reading it after LM went off to work, and aside from forcing myself to take a shower before I was done with it, I spent all morning curled up with Bran and Robb and Tyrion and Arya and Daenerys and Jon and direwolves.
Y’all, I think I have a new fandom.
I don’t actually commit to fandoms very quickly. But OHMYGODYOUGUYS this book is SO DAMN GOOD. I don’t even care that I’m late to the party. And I haven’t even seen the series yet! LM has started on A Clash of Kings already and if I wasn’t so determined to finish my unread shelf this year I’d probably go out and get my own copy so I wouldn’t have to wait.
I don’t normally go for multi-volume medievalesque High Fantasy, but this series had just got it all: addictive, character driven plot lines. Multiple, complex female heroines. Moral ambiguity like whoa. Distinctive, believable cultures and societies. Epic battles, magic, prehistoric animal life (MAMMOTHS, Y’ALL!), freaking zombies, pet ravens, knights and queens and castles and did I mention DRAGONS! It’s like what we all secretly wish the Middle Ages had been. The heroes are foolishly, wonderfully noble and do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. The villains are so delightfully wicked you kind of root for them in spite of yourself. But most of the characters are enjoyable shades of gray, and you never know which way they’ll go. Including the women, for a nice change. They’re mostly wives - this is a feudal society after all - but they’re still people in their own right, and their designs rarely line up with their husbands’. I really have nothing more interesting to say beyond OMG THIS BOOKS IS SOOO AWESOME YOU GUYS!
in the meantime, I’ve started on Wolf Hall, as it’s the only book on my shelf likely to distract me, and frankly the Tudors aren’t all that different from the Lannisters when it comes to bloodthirstyness and ambition.
And now I'm off to find Game of Thrones icons!