The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wilderness is poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. And Robb?s defences are ranged against the South, the land of the cunning and cruel Lannisters, who have his younger sisters in their power. Throughout Westeros, the war for the Iron Throne rages more fiercely than ever, but if the Wall is breached, no king will live to claim it. ?If those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best? - Time Magazine ?Colossal, staggering? all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome? - SFX ?The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads? Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias? - Guardian.
