A Dance With Dragons
by George R. R. Martin
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67%
Critic Reviews: 29
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79%
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Synopsis
The long-awaited fifth book in #1 bestselling author George R. R. Martin's critically-acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series comes to mass market as season two of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones reaches its stunning conclusion! Features a special preview of the next book in the series! A Song of Ice and Fire is one of the most beloved and bestselling series in fantasy, and A Dance With Dragons quickly became a major hardcover phenomenon on its July 12th... more
About George R. R. Martin
Published: August 28, 2012 by Bantam Dell
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy. Fiction. 1152 pages
- All Critics: 29
- Positive: 20
- Negative: 9
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Los Angeles Times | 12 Jul 2011
Martin seems poised in the last two books to bring home one of the best series in the history of fantasy.
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The New York Times | 14 Jul 2011
“A Dance With Dragons” meets the high standards set by its four siblings... I know that I’ll be happy to cling to the hard and scaly back of this particular dancing dragon as I wait for Book 6
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Time Magazine | 7 Jul 2011
the real power of Martin's work arises from his extraordinary skill as a plotter... his skill as a crafter of narrative exceeds that of almost any literary novelist writing today.
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The Washington Post | 12 Jul 2011
epic fantasy as it should be written: passionate, compelling, convincingly detailed and thoroughly imagined.
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The Independent | 7 Aug 2011
While there is much for the most robust of fans to wallow in here, A Dance With Dragons is perhaps a book that tries to please all kingdoms yet doesn't quite please any.
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Graeme's Fantasy Book Review | 20 Feb 2012
‘A Dance with Dragons’ is a bloated affair and I’d say that GRRM needs to grasp the reins a little more firmly if the rest of the series is to live up to early promise.
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The Independent | 22 Jul 2011
It is hard to accept that something that enormous and that popular can be as good as people tell you it is.
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Fantasy Book Review | 27 Jul 2011
This entire book feels like a build-up... It’s new, but it isn’t better and it’s not half as compelling.
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Bibliophile Stalker Blog | 25 Jul 2011
Most satisfying is the fact that A Dance With Dragons remains interesting and unpredictable
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AV Club | 20 Jul 2011
a book to be savored for its flavor, for Martin’s considerable talent at world-building, characterization, and interaction, for his characters’ humor, bravery, skullduggery, determination, and pathos.
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Kirkus Reviews | 27 Sep 2011
There’s plenty of wiggle room for more volumes in the series, but on the evidence, one wonders if Martin isn’t getting a little tired of it.
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Best Fantasy Books Blog | 15 Aug 2011
A Dance with Dragons is full of promise and raises expectations for the final two books.
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Dear Author | 7 Sep 2011
I was bored for stretches of this novel. Parts of it dragged and other parts were repetitive.
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SF Signal | 12 Sep 2011
extremely well written and full of fantastic and memorable characterizations.
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the cumulative effect, once the book is over, is formidable, proving Martin's mastery of epic narrative hasn't deserted him by a long chalk
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SF Site
A Dance with Dragons is meticulous in its execution, rich in detail and a wonder to read.
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Mother Jones | 6 Aug 2011
A Dance With Dragons shows that pressure is getting to him. Instead of aggressively pushing the storyline forward, he's getting distracted by the little details
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Christian Science Monitor | 12 Jul 2011
“A Dance with Dragons” may well be one of the best books in the five-book series so far. Martin’s prose is concise but pithy, begging to be devoured over and over again.
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Tor | 2 Sep 2011
it’s satisfying. It reaches back to what has come before, and it reaches forward to what isn’t there yet and shows some satisfying signs of coming towards a conclusion.
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io9 | 7 Jul 2011
It's a brilliant, horrifying, depressing book that takes the characters Martin made you fall in love with, and plunges them just a little bit deeper into hell.
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Huffington Post | 17 Jul 2011
The suspense is finely honed as a knife's edge, ensuring that readers are always left hungry for more.
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National Post | 22 Jul 2011
A Dance with Dragons, feels like connective tissue to make all the plot elements line up correctly, by the end Martin has returned to the breathless pace of the first three volumes of the series
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The Millions | 29 Jul 2011
A Song of Ice and Fire is perhaps the most compelling, fully realized narrative in modern literature.
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Review (Barnes & Noble) | 12 Jul 2011
Each of the drama machines that Martin has set to work in his earlier books keeps humming here with an admirable precision. It’s a thundering good read that... enthralls as the greatest adventure fiction should.
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Entertainment Weekly | 12 Jul 2011
By turns thrilling, funny, scary, emotionally devastating, oddly inspirational, and just plain grand, it feels like a compilation of several different great fantasy novels as it pulls together the disparate characters’ story lines.
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A Book a Day Till I Can Stay Blog | 8 Jan 2012
Martin is trying to encompass every facet of the plot that he has unraveled, but it feels overwhelming.
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The Daily Beast | 6 Jul 2011
A Dance With Dragons... might also be Martin’s finest work yet, a taut and relentless masterpiece that reaffirms the reader’s obsession with the panoply of unforgettable characters that Martin has created, and the brutal, glittering, terrible world in which these novels are set.
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The League of Ordinary Gentlemen | 8 Aug 2011
Dance with Dragons could have been a good book, but it would have taken a bold editor with a very red pen to make it great.
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New Jersey Newsroom | 25 Jul 2011
For all the treasures buried in this saga, the call should go out throughout all the lands of Westeros and Esteros: will pay dragon's gold for skilled editor.
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