![]() In the latter half of this volume, you will notice certain of the. (And these last three are all members of the same family!) But Dragons is also a brilliantly unified work: Each character is struggling, in his or her own way, to create order out of chaos. A Dance with Dragons is a longer book than A Feast for Crows, and covers a longer time period. There’s a pirate lord sailing through mystical waters, a warrior princess rebelling against kings, and an imprisoned traitor-prince brutalized by his captors. Daenerys Targaryen, the Dragon Queen, must contend with far more human concerns, ruling a rowdy city-state whose government rivals The Wire‘s Baltimore in complexity. Jon Snow, hero of the icy north, is building an army to battle an ancient evil. The imp Tyrion Lannister finds himself on a genuine quest, traveling by land and sea. And if Crows was only half a novel, A Dance With Dragons is its opposite: By turns thrilling, funny, scary, emotionally devastating, oddly inspirational, and just plain grand, it feels like a compilation of several different great fantasy novels as it pulls together the disparate characters’ story lines. Power is an element in the story that becomes the foundation for most wars, and the story captures how power, politics, and survival combine to create conflict. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, the characters try to survive the brutal world. But now the second half of that tale has arrived. The primary themes in ‘A Dance with Dragons’ are power, politics, and survival. ![]()
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