And the stories are so rich with history and lore and backstory, with little clues to the past and its trove of mysteries, you can’t help but get lost in it all (in a good way). Westeros is so much more well-drawn than most fantasy realms. The characters he’s created are real and complex.
Listening to the novel as an audio book for the first time, and diving back into Martin’s fiction for the first time in years, reminds me just how absolutely brilliant he is as a writer and storyteller. Now, my daughter, Aria, is 15, a year older than Jon Snow and six years older than her namesake, Arya Stark, was in the first book. I am now 41, six years old than Eddard Stark is (again, in the books, everyone is older in the show). I was 19 years old-just one year older than Theon Greyjoy in the books-when I found that copy of A Game Of Thrones. In other words, between 2000 when A Storm Of Swords came out and right now, 2022, we have only progressed the story’s chronology the length of one book. Martin split A Dance With Dragons from it, and the result was two books that came out years apart ( Dance in 2011) but took place across the same timeline. In any case, I read through all three of the first brilliant novels in the series in short order and then eagerly awaited the next. A prequel set much closer to the events of 'Game Of Thrones' than 'House Of The Dragon.' Credit: HBO
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