Does The First Law finish the story for A Song of Ice and Fire? I don't even care for medieval fantasy that much, but I'm attached to these characters.
I gave up on the possibility of a proper ending (ending? what ending??) for these books
years ago... and you'll be there soon enough as well. Maybe another book will be out by the time my daughter goes to 1st grade... and that's me being optimistic. So what... 2018-2019? After reading Dance and felt completely underwhelmed at the last 2000 pages of mediocrity from the past 2 books, I gave up. Heck, even Martin gave up. I can tell. How can the first 3 books be so awesome and the last two suck SO much? The guy lost it and now all he does is live off his old fame and blog about his shitty American football team, that fat useless fuck.
The First Law is beautifully written and to me a work of art. It's witty and engaging and this initially trilogy is treated as a project with a beginning and an end.
All one can hope for. Something Martin clearly doesn't understand. You read that right. There's an end and currently... new books of that storyline universe are coming out every 1-2 years at most and they are just as exceptional. I'm wrapping up on the 4th book as I type this and it's almost as fantastic with some parts even more engaging than A Song of Ice and Fire can ever hope to be.
And this is outside of the main trilogy. Everyone should read this book and I hope it gets its own HBO series. It's far better than GoT. The author will be releasing his 7th book this summer.
7 books in 8 years?
Martin almost died reading that.
You state you don't seem to care of medieval fantasy all that much but the fantasy part plays a more minor role than it does in ASOFAI and for what it's worth it's mostly on par of what you already read in ASOFAI. Though no Dragons. YES!!! You initially follow the POV of the 3 major protagonists of the series. Sometimes you get others. Glotka is my favorite character in the series and he's a deeply flawed noble, witty, intriguing and sarcastic. He's also a cripple, kneeling to the wills of a master who is just as intriguing. By the time I finished reading the first 50 pages, I was completely enthralled until the end of the trilogy. Thank you @
HowDroll for recommending this to me. And the other protagonists are just as great. The new book follows new protagonists (upwards to 5-6) who are just as interesting.
No one is boring as Bran.
No one is as useless and frustrating to read like Dany has been the last 2 books.
No one punishes you to read through their chapters like the chapters of the Ironbore did.
No one is as engaging as Nicomo Costa and all others are great and flawed in their own way. Nicomo reminds me of a 'dishonorable' Syrio Forel.
Do yourself a favor, buy a used book and read the first one. Heck, if you want, I'll ship you mine. Stop your suffering. After being unable to play all these great games on PC these last few years and being part of the inferior gaming race and drudging through the last 2 books of ASOFAI, you deserve something better.