By George R. R. Martin
NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO sequence GAME OF THRONES
From a grasp of up to date delusion comes the 1st novel of a landmark sequence in contrast to any you’ve ever learn ahead of. With A online game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has introduced a real masterpiece, bringing jointly the easiest the style has to provide. secret, intrigue, romance, and event fill the pages of this remarkable saga, the 1st quantity in an epic sequence certain to satisfaction myth lovers everywhere.
A video game OF THRONES
A music OF ICE AND fireplace: ebook ONE
Long in the past, in a time forgotten, a preternatural occasion threw the seasons out of stability. In a land the place summers can final many years and winters a life-time, difficulty is brewing. The chilly is returning, and within the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing past the kingdom’s protecting Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his such a lot depended on adviser lifeless below mysterious situations and his enemies rising from the shadows of the throne. on the middle of the clash lie the Starks of Winterfell, a kinfolk as harsh and unyielding because the frozen land they have been born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to function the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not just his family members however the nation itself.
Sweeping from a harsh land of chilly to a summertime state of epicurean lots, A video game of Thrones tells a story of lords and girls, squaddies and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come jointly in a time of grim omens. right here an enigmatic band of warriors endure swords of no human steel; a tribe of fierce wildlings hold males off into insanity; a merciless younger dragon prince barters his sister to win again his throne; a toddler is misplaced within the twilight among lifestyles and loss of life; and a made up our minds lady undertakes a treacherous trip to guard all she holds expensive. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the destiny of the Starks hangs perilously within the stability, as either side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the sport of thrones.
Unparalleled in scope and execution, A video game of Thrones is a type of infrequent studying reviews that capture you up from the outlet pages, won’t allow you to move till the top, and depart you craving for more.
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Lord Eddard Stark used to be now not a guy to sleep with whores,” Jon stated icily. “His honor—” “—did no longer hinder him from fathering a bastard. Did it? ” Jon used to be chilly with rage. “Can i'm going? ” “You cross while I inform you to head. ” Jon stared sullenly on the smoke emerging from the brazier, until eventually Noye took him lower than the chin, thick palms twisting his head round. “Look at me whilst I’m chatting with you, boy. ” Jon appeared. The armorer had a chest like a keg of ale and a intestine to compare. His nostril used to be flat and extensive, and he constantly appeared wanting a shave. The left sleeve of his black wool tunic was once fixed on the shoulder with a silver pin within the form of a longsword. “Words won’t make your mom a whore. She used to be what she used to be, and not anything Toad says can switch that. you recognize, we have now males at the Wall whose moms have been whores. ” now not my mom, Jon idea stubbornly. He knew not anything of his mom; Eddard Stark wouldn't speak of her. but he dreamed of her from time to time, so usually that he may possibly nearly see her face. In his desires, she used to be appealing, and highborn, and her eyes have been sort. “You imagine you had it tough, being a excessive lord’s bastard? ” the armorer went on. “That boy Jeren is a septon’s get, and Cotter Pyke is the baseborn son of a tavern wench. Now he instructions Eastwatch by way of the ocean. ” “I don’t care,” Jon acknowledged. “I don’t care approximately them and that i don’t care approximately you or Thorne or Benjen Stark or any of it. I hate it the following. It’s too … it’s chilly. ” “Yes. chilly and tough and suggest, that’s the Wall, and the lads who stroll it. unlike the tales your rainy nurse informed you. good, piss at the tales and piss in your rainy nurse. this can be how it is, and you’re the following for all times, similar because the remainder of us. ” “Life,” Jon repeated bitterly. The armorer might speak about existence. He’d had one. He’d purely taken the black after he’d misplaced an arm on the siege of Storm’s finish. prior to that he’d smithed for Stannis Baratheon, the king’s brother. He’d noticeable the Seven Kingdoms from one finish to the opposite; he’d feasted and wenched and fought in 100 battles. They acknowledged it was once Donal Noye who’d solid King Robert’s warhammer, the person who beaten the existence from Rhaegar Targaryen at the Trident. He’d performed everything that Jon might by no means do, after which whilst he was once outdated, well beyond thirty, he’d taken a glancing blow from an awl and the wound had festered till the full arm needed to come off. basically then, crippled, had Donal Noye come to the Wall, while his lifestyles used to be all yet over. “Yes, life,” Noye acknowledged. “A lengthy existence or a brief one, it’s as much as you, Snow. the line you’re strolling, certainly one of your brothers will slit your throat for you one evening. ” “They’re now not my brothers,” Jon snapped. “They hate me simply because I’m larger than they're. ” “No. They hate you since you act like you’re higher than they're. they give the impression of being at you and spot a castle-bred bastard who thinks he’s a lordling. ” The armorer leaned shut. “You’re no lordling. keep in mind that. You’re a Snow, no longer a Stark. You’re a bastard and a bully. ” “A bully? ” Jon virtually choked at the observe. The accusation was once so unjust it took his breath away.