A Clash of Kings. By George R.R. Martin

Goodness gracious, two days in a row.  No, I did not finish A Clash of Kings in a Day, but if you want to think I am that skilled of a reader, then I won’t stop you.  Anyways, A Clash of Kings is the second book in The Song of Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin.  If you haven’t read or finished reading A Game of Thrones, you may want to hold off on my review as there may be a bunch of spoilers.  Now that Ned Stark is dead, (if that death doesn’t prove to you that no one is safe in Martin’s universe then I don’t know what will) the massive struggle for power is now underway.  In this book we are introduced to even more Houses and new characters.  The Stark children are for the most part left to fend for themselves.  And we have DRAGONS.  Dany’s story is getting more and more interesting as time goes on.  We are beginning to see how magic is starting to enter the world, but isn’t a major player…yet.  In this book we see how many people have made some difficult decisions in their life.  Jon Snow is in the Nights Watch and is learning a whole lot about what is beyond the wall.  There are multiple story lines going on in this book and we finally have a number of large battles.  I have found myself actually like Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow.  I think Jon Snow is still my favorite character, but as the author has proven in the past, there are no untouchable characters, I really hope Jon Snow is in it for the long haul.  I am very curious to see how the growth of the dragons affects the world and how they play into this story as a whole.  As the story progresses, you can see that for all the battles that have happened thus far, the worst is yet to come from beyond the wall, the coming winter, and the return of the Targaryen's to the Seven Kingdoms with dragons. The next book, a storm of swords is very long so I’m going to take a break on this series and move on to some lighter reading.