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A Dance With Dragons: Part 2 After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5) Paperback – 15 Mar. 2012
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The fifth volume, part two of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast.
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.
In King’s Landing the Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, awaits trial, abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern city of Yunkai her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. From the Wall, having left his wife and the Red Priestess Melisandre under the protection of Jon Snow, Stannis Baratheon marches south to confront the Boltons at Winterfell. But beyond the Wall the wildling armies are massing for an assault…
On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all.
NOTE :This is not a new book , but a new release of a previously published book.- Print length592 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperVoyager
- Publication date15 Mar. 2012
- Dimensions12.9 x 3.7 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-109780007466078
- ISBN-13978-0007466078
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'Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R.R. Martin is by far the best'
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George R.R. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- ASIN : 0007466072
- Publisher : HarperVoyager; 1st edition (15 Mar. 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 592 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780007466078
- ISBN-13 : 978-0007466078
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 3.7 x 19.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 15,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 234 in Film & Television Tie-In
- 320 in Fantasy Anthologies (Books)
- 402 in Military Fantasy (Books)
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About the author

George R.R. Martin is the globally bestselling author of many fine novels, including A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons, which together make up the series A Song of Ice and Fire, on which HBO based the world’s most-watched television series, Game of Thrones. Other works set in or about Westeros include The World of Ice and Fire, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. His science fiction novella Nightflyers has also been adapted as a television series; and he is the creator of the shared-world Wild Cards universe, working with the finest writers in the genre. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. They appreciate the compelling plot with twists and turns that keep them engaged from start to finish. The writing quality is praised as well-written and vivid. Opinions differ on the character variety, with some finding the new characters interesting and fitting in nicely, while others feel the story develops slowly.
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Customers enjoy the book. They find it an enjoyable read with similar themes as before. The writing is phenomenal and better than the TV series. It's therapeutic escapism, even better than the TV series itself.
"...The whole thing is pure and very therapeutic escapism, but it’s also great fun to look for historical – and current – parallels...." Read more
"...This is a splendid read. Let's just hope it can all be brought to a satisfying conclusion sooner rather than later." Read more
"...Not a lot of books I review will get that kind of reference. It's excellent, there are a lot of strands that are slowly being woven together, at..." Read more
"...A wonderful series, though this is not one of the strongest books...." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's twists and turns. They find the story compelling as it progresses, with a good narrative. The concept is intriguing and complex, making the series fascinating and frustrating at times.
"...The former have more characters, more sub-plots and more background...." Read more
"The Game of Thrones series has been both fascinating and frustrating in equal measure...." Read more
"...Some storylines do make interesting progress. Although there's hardly anything in the way of action. There's a fair bit going on in the north...." Read more
"...There is an absence of large scale action in After the Feast and most of the story progress is instead focused on the individual characters...." Read more
Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable. They say the plot keeps them hooked from the beginning. The book has a lot of action and transports them back to the Middle Ages with its realistic language.
"...This still generates a lot of interest and leaves many of the characters in a state where you just can't wait to know what happens...." Read more
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Customers enjoy the writing quality of the book. They find the story engaging with vivid descriptions and language that transport them back to the Middle Ages.
"...Whilst this remains very readable and does have you desperate to know what will happen next, the events in the north and west do tend to be a bit..." Read more
"...stars for a lot of reasons, it's a cracking read and it's also very well-written. Not a lot of books I review will get that kind of reference...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2018Although this review is attached to the latest book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series (Volume 5 Book 2, “After the Feast”), I’m referring to all the books in the series, and to the TV series “Game of Thrones”.
I began reading Volume 1 of ASOIAF at the same time as I sat down to watch Season 1 of the TV series in the summer of 2017. Yes, about six years late for the TV series and over 20 years late for the books. Since then I’ve read all the books up to “After the Feast” and watched Seasons 1-6 of the TV series. I delayed reading “After the Feast” because I assumed it would tie in with Season 7 of the TV series, and I thought I would read and watch simultaneously. However, I soon realised that “After the Feast is still deep in Season 6, and as George RR Martin hasn’t yet published Volume 6 of ASOIAF, I have no idea what Season 7 of the TV series is based on, nor what Season 8 (due to air in 2018) will be based on. Season 1 followed Volume 1 fairly closely, if memory serves, but subsequently, the gap between the books and the TV series has gradually widened. It’s clear that to keep within budget and timescales the TV script writers have had to do a major pruning job as the books are far more complicated than the TV version. The former have more characters, more sub-plots and more background. That makes them in many ways more satisfying and entertaining than the TV series. On the other hand, the TV version has an economy and pace that the books sometimes lack. My biggest gripe about the books is that sometimes the detail seems unnecessary and slightly self-indulgent, e.g. descriptions of meals that add nothing to the plot and action. Also, the dialogue can be a bit clunky and an uneasy mixture of modern and faux mediaeval. When Jon Snow talks about “structural defects” in the Wall, you think why didn’t he just say “cracks”? On the other hand, the author very sensibly makes no attempt to replicate all the various languages that are spoken in this world, unlike the TV series which gets a bit silly when characters babble away in High Valyrian or Ghiscari and we get the subtitles in English. In the books we only get a couple of key (mystical) phrases and that’s quite enough. No point trying to out-Tolkien Tolkien.
However, the TV series is much tidier than the books, and the quest for simplification and the need to keep the stars in the limelight mean that the TV version is often more dramatic, e.g. the reunion between Jon Snow and Sansa Stark in the TV series is a brilliant adaptation of the equivalent incident in the books where Jon Snow hears that a young girl has been delivered to Castle Black and he thinks it might be Arya Stark, but instead he finds himself face to face with the daughter of a minor retainer of the Starks, a girl he hasn’t seen for ten years and barely recognises. It’s a bit of an anti-climax for Jon Snow and for the reader. Another example: in the TV series, after Tyrion Lannister flees from King’s Landing, he eventually reaches Meereen where he becomes a trusted adviser to Daenerys. In the books no such thing has happened by the end of “After the Feast”. Tyrion has joined a mercenary company in an army besieging Meereen, and his place as trusted adviser is filled by Barristan Selmy, who was killed off sometime earlier in the TV series, but is still clinging on to life in the books.
The whole thing is pure and very therapeutic escapism, but it’s also great fun to look for historical – and current – parallels. For example, although it’s been said that the English Wars of the Roses provided much of the inspiration for the books, there are other parallels, e.g. Roman history. I’m sure the name Lannister is taken from the Latin lanista, a gladiator trainer. The trial of Maergery Tyrell is clearly based on the fate of Anne Boleyn, and the parallel is all the more stark because HBO cast the actress who plays Maergery – Natalie Dormer – as Anne Boleyn in “The Tudors” a few years ago. The first bloke to admit to fornication with Maergery is a musician, obviously based on Mark Smeaton who confessed to committing adultery with Anne Boleyn. A contemporary parallel is the impact of religious fundamentalism on the politics of Westeros with the rise of the “sparrows” and the followers of the Lord of Light. Both sects are very mediaeval, and there are obvious parallels with the Reformation and the Inquisition, but also chillingly modern.
I could go on, but I won’t. I’ll just say that although I’m not that keen on fantasy novels and not a great watcher of TV, I found the books incredibly entertaining, and the TV series compulsive viewing.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2014The Game of Thrones series has been both fascinating and frustrating in equal measure. Martin's epic fantasy about the lives of the rich and not so rich of Westeros and its surrounding lands has become a tale in which you have certain characters you root for and others you wish very much would either die horribly or do something different with themselves.
A Dance with Dragons Part 2 follows the continued fortunes of Houses Lannister with its ruling members and exiled other, Bolton, Stark, Tyrell, Martell, Targaryen and all of their followers. The big stories seem to be the grief that the Lannister family are having at Kings Landing, with King Tommen continuing his young and increasingly precarious reign, his scheming mother, his uncle (who is his real father) who has largely abandoned them and his household who seem to be at war with themselves. It also follows the fortunes of exiled Lannister, Tyrion the imp who is trying to find his way to helping would be Queen Daernys Targaryen but keeps getting captured and sold as a slave or winds up going from one bad situation to another. His current fortunes include jousting in an arena on the back of a pig for Daernys' amusement and then getting away with his life to end up with soldiers of fortune in a company at Mereen's walls.
Meanwhile, in another city, the Stark formerly known as Arya is learning the assassin's trade at Braavos, something she has wanted to do. Her sister, Sansa who fled being imprisoned for a crime she had nothing to do with and being married to Tyrion is now in the hands of master schemer Petyr Baelish. He is continuing his domination of the Vale of Arryn and trying to connive his way into getting Sansa married to someone who is willing to go to war for her and retake her birthright, Winterfell. Then there's the Boltons who are the current landlords of Winterfell and probably the worst. Son Ramsay is a sadistic, bullying young man who has terrorised his fake Stark bride and ruined Prince Theon Greyjoy.
Yet all is not lost. Whilst Daernys seems incapable of leaving slave city Mereen and using her Unsullied army and dragons to re-claim the iron throne, the Targaryen formerly thought of as dead, now emerging as Prince Aegon has landed at Westeros and is about to head on to re-claim his birthright.
The next books should be even more interesting. Will Tyrion have his meeting with Daernys, become her advisor and lead her to Kings Landing and have the opportunity for his own revenge on his awful sister? With Daernys ever leave Mereen and realise her true purpose? Will Tommen remain as ruler for long? And will Sansa Stark be able to marry, call her banners and re-claim her birthright? Only the next few novels will tell.
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- JDReviewed in the United States on 10 September 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice buy
Great Read
- Suzanne BrowningReviewed in Canada on 11 August 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Duplicate
Dance with Dragons is excellent..however Dance with Dragons 2 is the exact same book! Disappointed when I started to read it thinking it was the next addition to the series. Spent the extra money for nothing! Buyers beware!!!! Correction...It's not the exact same book..only the last half of Dance with Dragons.
- cjReviewed in Australia on 23 July 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Fantasy Writer since JRR Tolkien
The whole series is A+
- Piyush MalankarReviewed in India on 18 February 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Story. One time read
5 stars for delivery. The story is not as gripping as other books of the same series. There are few areas where you loose connection and are bored a lil. Overall for story point of view this is 3.5/5. Last of Dany Targeryen chapters are not so much intriguing, you can read 2 pages of beginning of the chapter and last 2 pages and you will understand the whole chapter the majority middle portion of Danny's last few chapters contribute nothing to the story. So overall this book is mediocre and not as great as " Clash of Kings". But we all know we GOT fans will read it not matter what.
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Cliente AmazonReviewed in Brazil on 10 February 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars top
mto, melhor série que eu já li, esta demorando muito para sair o proximo livro mas tudo bem, vale a pena a espera