Let me start out this review on a bit of a tangent by saying that I’m a big fan of Lewis Lovhaug’s, who’s perhaps more commonly known on the Internet as Linkara, and his video review series, History of Power Rangers. If you haven’t heard of History of Power Rangers, it’s video series where Linkara does in depth reviews of each season of Power Rangers. At the time of this review’s posting, he recently released his review of Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Super Megaforce, so he’s now finally caught up with all of the seasons of Power Rangers that have finished airing. He will do his review of Power Rangers Dino Charge and Power Rangers Dino Super Charge at some point once Power Rangers Dino Super Charge has finished airing, but that probably won’t be for a while since Power Rangers Dino Super Charge apparently won’t be premiering until the end of January. If you’re interested in checking out his History of Power Rangers videos, you can watch them here. That being said, something that I’ve been thinking about a lot for a long time now is doing an in depth review series of either a TV show or a book series, similar to Linkara’s History of Power Rangers series, but in a written format. Since I’m focusing primarily on reviewing books for my blog these days, I think it could be a lot of fun to do that with the A Song of Ice and Fire book series since there’s a lot to talk about regarding the books and there’s the show Game of Thrones to talk about as well. With that said, here are my thoughts on A Game of Thrones.
Right off the bat, I have to say that I absolutely loved A Game of Thrones. I would even go as far as saying that it’s one of the best books, if not the best book, that I’ve ever read. I really regret not having started reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series a long time ago, because this book and all of the characters, along with the world that they live in is just truly amazing, in my opinion.
This might sound like a really weird and random book to compare A Game of Thrones to since they are in two completely different genres, but as I was reading A Game of Thrones, I found myself thinking a lot about the book The Bourbon Kings by J. R. Ward and what I thought about it when I was reading it. If you’re interested in knowing what I thought about that book, you can read my review for the book here. While I really liked that book, I definitely think that book had a lot of problems. One of the biggest problems that I have with it is the fact that pretty much all of the characters were very black and white, without any shades of gray to them. They were either good and likable people, or they were bad and unlikable people. Given the fact that The Bourbon Kings is essentially a soap opera in the form of a book, I really felt like the book should have had at least some characters that people could love to hate.
