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HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. ‘Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing’ Sunday Times In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction. Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has escaped from King’s Landing with a price on his head. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone – a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark’s bastard son Jon Snow has been elected 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. But Jon has enemies both inside and beyond the Wall. And in the east Daenerys Targaryen struggles to hold a city built on dreams and dust.

Review: A Dance With Dragons: Dream and Dust is one of the final books in the A Song of Fire and Ice series. The books runs in the same time frame as the previous book (A Feast for Crows). As the two books run in the same time frame, some of the characters are excluded. Dreams and Dust primarly follows Tyrion, Daenerys, Bran and Jon Snow. This is the first the reader meets again of Tyrion since his disappearance before a Feast for Crows. Tyrion now resides outside Westeros, fleeing after killing Tywin Lannister, his father. Across the sea to the east, Daenerys Targaryen holds Meereen with her army of unsullied and freedmen. Here she tries to maintain peace, whilst many are unhappy she abolished the slave trade and closed the fighting pits. Bran heads north of the wall seeking the three eyed crow, together with the Reeds, Hodor and what appears to be a wight. Down at the wall Bran’s half brother Jon Snow serves as lord commander. Snow plays host to Stannis Baratheon and Meslisandre seeking alliances in the north, as well as a mass of wildings seeking refugee. The characters’ stories featured in Dreams and Dust really begin to unfold, in a series of spectacular events, making the book difficult to put down at times. George R. R. Martin does a fantastic job bringing out some really unexpected events, which may have strong consequences for the end outcome of the series. Well worth reading and one of the stronger books in the series. The story has a great level of depth and the reader really builds a connection to the world and characters after reading the 6 books.

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.