The fourth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire turns away from open warfare and towards what follows it: exhausted kingdoms, empty treasuries and quieter forms of ambition.
George R. R. Martin narrows the cast for this book, giving extended attention to characters whose stories had run in the background while others held the foreground. Chapters move between regions of Westeros and beyond, the political manoeuvring is detailed, and threads planted in the earlier novels begin to shift into position.
Worth noting:
• Book four in the Song of Ice and Fire sequence, following A Storm of Swords
• A shifted point-of-view structure with several narrators new to the saga
• Emphasis on succession, religion and the cost of war rather than battlefield set pieces
• Source material behind later seasons of the Game of Thrones adaptation
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