Abisola Fatokun

Anyone close to me will know that I consume books. I don’t stop till I’ve read a book to the very end, if I find it captivating. I particularly love the Fantasy genre and they tend to come in epics, which means at least a Trilogy. That is a lot of reading!

I heard about George R. R. Martins’ “A Game of Thrones” through a colleague at work and I thought I’d give it a try. The first book (A song of Ice and Fire) was amazing and I immediately purchased the second one on my Kindle. I was hooked on George R. R. Martin.

The second started to get really dark and George Martin seemed to think it was a good idea to kill and cripple all the ‘good’ guys that you had spent so much time getting to know in his first book.

This gets worse in the subsequent books and, frankly, the drop in pace also makes it seem as though he just wants to sell books instead of tell a story. Discovering that book 3 was in two parts (as in two – expensive – books) probably didn’t endear me to George Martin either.

So here I am. Totally uninterested in the fourth installment of the story. Reviews on Amazon indicate a pedestrian pace and lack of direction.

Mr Martin, I want to see Bran fly… I want Jaime Lannister to clean out his house… I’d like to see Jon Snow get some respect and Arya reunited with her Greywolf. Just finish the story!!

I’ve charted my declining interest in the Epic for you as well, Mr Martin.

A chart of my declining interest in "A Game of Thrones"