I'm going to break down and do it. I heard about this series a while back, but likened it to Lord of the Rings and figured that the books were going to be too thick and more fantasy-minded than I like - so I turned my nose up at it.
But then I saw the first episode on HBO a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed the show...so of course I had to check the book out further and ended up downloading the first chapter free on my Kindle. HOLY COW it was really good. From the first chapter I've read it seems a bit like Outlander and Lord of the Rings. Or the perfect amount of romance, adventure, and fantasy.
It's a little daunting to think about launching into this series (which is actually called A Song of Fire and Ice series) because the first book is pretty hefty...and there's 4 books in the series with another book coming out in July and 2 more planned after that. The books range from 800-1100 pages long, so to call this an epic series is the perfect description.
Getting into a series like this can be intimidating. I've heard that there's a lot of characters and stories swirling around in the books and that sometimes the author will leave a cliffhanger for a long time (the length of a book...that may make me crazy!) - but I think if I know that going into it, then maybe I can handle it.
I also have to be in a certain frame of mind to start a book like this...it doesn't seem like a novel that you can drag out for a while and that you really have to really sit down and immerse yourself in it in order to understand the story. I have a couple of library books to get through and then I think I'm going to hunker down with this and see how it goes. I'll keep you posted on progress...
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