lightreads

Fiction. Third in the epic A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series. GIBBER! FLAIL! I love this with the quivering adoration of a kicked puppy. Make me love them all! Scare me half to death! Break my heart! And then do it again, pretty please. This is unexpected and twisted and brilliant, and I need to stop talking now because I want to save this series for a post of its own. Except to say that I love the way he contravenes standard fantasy tropes and makes them fascinating or horrible, and I pretty much adore every single one of his characters, including the hateful ones, and I gawp at the way he writes without
flourishes, with smooth simplicity that is spare but vivid (how does he do that?).