![]() ![]() If I had to rank the Lannisters from most evil to most humane, I guess it would be: I made the same face when Cersei told Ned that she and Jamie were “one person in two bodies.” I don’t care if the Targaryens marry siblings too, it’s…sick. This was my face when I found out about the incestuous relationship between Jamie and Cersei, just before they pushed Bran out the window so he couldn’t tell anyone he had seen them together: There were other clues besides their eye color that the Lannisters weren’t going to be the heroes, but about 30 pages after reading these descriptions and predicting that these particular characters would be especially “bad” somehow, I was proved very, sickeningly correct. Ser Jamie Lannister was twin to Queen Cersei tall and golden, with flashing green eyes and a smile that cut like a knife. Prince Joffrey had his sister’s hair and his mother’s deep green eyes. A jeweled tiara gleamed amidst her long golden hair, its emeralds a perfect match for the green in her eyes. His lord father had come first, escorting the queen. This is how they were introduced, promenading into the great hall of Winterfell in a chapter from Jon’s perspective: ![]() I knew at the first physical description of Cersei, her brother Jamie, and her son Joffrey that they would be unlikeable, yet another example of the annoying “evil” green eyes stereotype. I like Tyrion best of all the Lannisters, but that’s not saying much. And while I like Tyrion Lannister’s humor and sympathize with his difficult past, he’s a little slimey and morally ambiguous, nothing like the noble Lord Stark. And of course I love Bran! I guess I loved everyone while I was reading from their point of view, but I connected with Catelyn Stark and Daenerys Targaryen the least. And then towards the end I really fell in love with Robb Stark, too. ![]() I’d have to say my favorite character was Lord Eddard “Ned” Stark, but whenever I was reading a chapter from Jon Snow or Arya Stark’s perspective, they were my favorite. This was my face for the first few chapters, giddy over the incredibly rich detail of this fantasy world and the intrigue of the characters’ relationships. I hope I can stay spoiler-free until I’ve caught up on the series, and I don’t want to ruin it for anybody else, so look away now if you haven’t yet read Game of Thrones! Because the rest of this post will contain **SPOILERS**!!! My vigilance paid off, because I was able to fully appreciate all the unexpected twists and the roller-coaster emotions that I felt towards the characters throughout the book. I managed to stay fairly spoiler-free by meticulously avoiding clicking on anything remotely related to the books or show and plugging my ears and humming to myself whenever people around me would talk about it. Four more of the planned seven books are already published, so I’m sure have plenty of glorious plot twists ahead of me. I gave it 5 stars, and I am now completely obsessed with this fictional world and its inhabitants,eager to devour thousands more pages. And I kept putting off the books because they are so long, I had other things I wanted to read first, and I knew that once I started I would probably get sucked into a new obsession that would take over my life. I saw the “first look” in Entertainment Weekly when they started filming the television show adaptation, and I immediately thought “this looks like something I would like.” But I haven’t seen the show yet, because I wanted to read the books first. Martin series A Song of Ice and Fire, has been on my to-read list for over a year.
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