A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three

George R. R. Martin

Mar 2004 · A Song of Ice and Fire Book 3 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Roy Dotrice

About this audiobook

THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.

Here is the third book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.

A STORM OF SWORDS
 
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons left in the world. As opposing forces maneuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a supernatural army of the living dead. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords. . . .
 
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

Ratings and reviews

Ray Dotrice is an amazing narrator, I'm glad he's back for this one. I found his portrayal of Tywen Lannister with the voice of Winston Churchill to be rather tongue in cheek :D My only gripe is the ridiculous interruptions of "end of disk 1. Disk 2" throughout. They were not in the other two and it's very offputting.

The book is great. The narrator is great. My one issue (which I didn't have with the previous reading of A Clash of Kings) is the abrupt announcements every 45 minutes or so that disk the has ended and a new one is beginning. It's as if the recordings were originally on CDs and when they were transferred to the digital format those breaks weren't removed through editing. It's fairly distracting because they aren't placed between chapters and interrupt the passages at unexpected times.

The google books app crashes when I try to play this.

About the author

George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid ‘90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.