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A Storm of Swords (Part Two) - Blood and Gold: Book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire (Unabridged)
 
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A Storm of Swords (Part Two) - Blood and Gold: Book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by George R. R. Martin (Author), Roy Dotrice (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 23 hours and 29 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • Audible.co.uk Release Date: 12 July 2011
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005CW88TQ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (474 customer reviews)
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George R.R. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues with the third in the series A Storm of Swords. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Unabridged and split into two parts. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.

The men of the Night's Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness - poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. But Robb's defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei's ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery. And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband's funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.

©2011 George R. R. Martin; (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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63 of 69 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Lost sleep 13 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is the best in the series by far. I read the first in the series of George Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and I was blown away by it. So much so I wrote a review here on Amazon to exult it to those considering buying it. I have now read Book 1, 2, 3 part 1 and this book, A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold, Book 3 Part 2. I was let down by book 2 and 3 part 1, they were good but not great and if I tried to write a review I could not because the plot all amalgamated into a fuzzy series of events that I think should have been shortened down. However this book makes up for the previous 2 completely. It is a fantastic read and truly insomnia-inflicting! I could not put this book down virtually till I finished it. There are more twists and turns in this book than any of the previous. Events that were dragged out in the previous two are teetered over the edge and thrown off into a thundering development that you cannot help but get swept up in. Remarkably characters that were evil redeem themselves, characters that were good frustrate and annoy the reader.

Martin's use of the written language makes him a master at his craft and can slow or pick up the pace at will and completely manipulate your emotions. If you are reading this review then I presume that you have read at least the first one in the series 'A game of Thrones' therefore I wont summarise the plot incase I ruin it for anyone.

If by book 3 part 1 your getting a little stuck in the mud from the length of the story and the lack of significant movement then please read on because it is worth it to reach this far.
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56 of 63 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The finest work of epic fantasy since Tolkien 25 Jan 2010
By A. Whitehead TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
Format:Paperback
The Battle of the Blackwater has radically shifted the balance of power in the War of the Five Kings. The Lannisters and Tyrells are now allied together, granting the boy-king Joffrey a vast army against which it appears that Robb Stark, the King in the North, and his allies cannot stand. In the distant lands beyond the Wall, Jon Snow has infiltrated the wildlings to learn more about their plans and objectives, but finds his loyalties torn when he learns that even the free folk have their own codes of honour. And, far beyond the eastern seas, Daenerys Targaryen attempts to hire an army of warriors to her cause from the stinking cities of Slaver's Bay, and decides to bring justice and freedom to these lands, despite it delaying her return home to Westeros.

A Storm of Swords is both the third volume of A Song of Ice and Fire and, individually, the finest work of epic fantasy published since at least The Silmarillion in 1977. George R.R. Martin's writing skills in the first book were good, better in the second and hit impressive new heights here in the third, with growing layers of description and writing giving the Seven Kingdoms more colour and more depth with each passing volume. The characterisation remains strong, and in A Storm of Swords Martin delivers one of his masterstrokes by upgrading the hitherto villainous and reprehensible Jaime Lannister to full POV status. By taking us into the head of one of the 'bad guys' and showing us what makes him tick without descending into cliche (Jaime is still a dangerous and somewhat unpleasant character), Martin achieves some very fine character description and growth.

Elsewhere, Swords gives us some of the most out-and-out memorable moments in fantasy fiction in a long time.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An epic read! 4 Oct 2013
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The plot ever thickens!! This has got to be the most exciting and heartbreaking book so far, but despite everything that happens, you are compelled to read on! Also, don't skip the epilogue! Has to be one of the biggest twists yet!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best so far 25 Sep 2013
By Dave
Format:Kindle Edition
Everything comes to a head in this book. The plot is reverting, Tyrion's dialogue is at his sparkling best and important characters are killed off in dramatic style. I couldn't put it down!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Unpredictably amazing drama 30 July 2013
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Book three and a half of A Song of Ice and Fire is really the second half of the third book, but I've read it a few months after finishing the first half, and thought it worked well on its own, being a length that felt more manageable to read in one go.

This is a really action packed episode in the story, full of unexpected twists and events that really shake up the ongoing storyline. I love how unpredictable the plot can be and how Martin can play with my perceptions of each character throughout.

I found my criticisms of earlier novels in the series swept away - the pacing was perfect, the points of view more at good intervals, and there was never a moment that I didn't want to dive straight into the next chapter.

This is probably my favourite entry in the series so far - it brings a lot of character and plot, and if the following novels are this good, I'm really looking forward to reading them.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Consistently good quality 15 Mar 2014
By Isis TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Whenever I pick up a book from the A Song of Ice and Fire series, something strange and unusual happens. I read, and I keep reading, and it’s a wrench to stop reading before the final page is turned.

I’ve praised George R R Martin’s series before for its deep world-building, authentic character creation, and refreshing unpredictability, so I thought I’d talk about something else this time. Readability. This series has it. George R R Martin truly is a master of the English language. His knowledge is broad enough to add flair to description and keep repetition at bay, but he never succumbs to flooding his work with incoherence. He knows how to construct a sentence so it is both interesting and elegantly simple, creating the sweet spot of literary flow that makes it so easy to read that it’s like the words carry you along like a current. That’s one of the reasons it’s so difficult to put down his books when I pick them up. The fluidity feels to natural that there never quite feels like a good point to put the book down and come back to it later.

Another reason is that Martin is a genius of plot structure. The alternate character pov chapters dole out just enough of that character and what’s happening with them to please, but not enough to satisfy, and before you know it the chapter’s over and you’re on to another character, with a strange mixture of thwarted disappointment that it’s now going to be several chapters before you find out what this character does next, and eagerness because now you get to find out what happened to that other character when you left off several chapters ago.
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