4.0 / 5
Year
2011
Publisher
Bantam Books
ISBN
978-0553801477
Fiction
A Dance with Dragons
by George R.R. Martin
The narrative threads stretch to their limits—icy existential dread in the North, slow‑burn revolution across the sea.
Geek’s cut
Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.
Deeper dive
It’s a wide, uneasy book: dragons growing, threats hardening, and everyone making choices future historians will list under “critical failure.” You can feel the story leaning toward an endgame we still haven’t seen.
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