There is far too much going on that to even hint at some of it is to take away surprises that are part of the thrill of reading Martin’s work. It is hard to fully explain the brilliance of a sequel like this in a review, without giving away its content. Stories and alliances are fracturing alike, and the reader is helpless before the onslaught of new characters, new plot lines, and revelations and cliff-hangers that leave the mind reeling. Five are vying for contention and naming themselves king, with none abiding the others. The Seven Kingdoms have been plunged heavily into civil war. Martin’s epic ‘A Song of Ice and Fire.’ With the disastrous and literally heart breaking conclusion to its predecessor, this book only continues the strife raging across Westeros, providing a total lack of end in sight.

Second in what is believed to be a planned seven book series, ‘A Clash of Kings’ continues George R. Into this, from across the sea, comes the daughter of the Dragon King to add her name to the list of pretenders to the throne. Winter is coming and the undead and Others are beginning to stir. The comet in the sky is seen as a sign of war and incest, fratricide and murder discolour the landscape. Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark are dead the crown rests with King Joffrey but Robb Stark, Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon all lay claim.

And a white raven has brought word from the Citadel itself, foretelling summer’s end.A Clash of Kings, book two of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, is the follow-up to George R. Stannis’s child Princess Shireen dreams of dragons waking from stone. A comet in the night sky, red and malevolent, the colour of blood and flame, can only be an omen of murder and war. In Dragonstone, Robert’s brother Stannis has declared himself king, while his other brother Renly proclaims himself king at Storm’s End - and Eddard Stark’s fifteen year old son Robb wears the crown of the north at Winterfell. Even so, Joffrey is now a boy-king, Cersei is his regent, and war is inevitable. His daughter Sansa is betrothed still to his killer’s son Joffrey - Queen Cersei’s son, though not the son of her late husband Robert. At King’s Landing, the head of Lord Eddard Stark rots on a spike for all to see. The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. Martin’s superb fantasy epic continues in consummate style as bloodshed and alchemy lay waste the Seven Kingdoms in the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire.

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