Game of thrones. A clash of kings

Clash of Kings is the second book of the Game of Thrones saga and I want to talk a little about this one.

If you have read the first volume you will know the 3 major storylines of the book, but if not, you will understand now.

On the one hand we have the war for the iron throne. This time there are not only 2 families fighting but everybody in the kingdom. Each knight of the realm joins the family he has sworn allegiance, and many battles that take place are carefully planned by the most influential families of the kingdom.

On the other hand we have the battle of the wall. The Stark family lemma is “Winter is coming” and reading the book, I imagine that in this land there are two “cycles”: a season where the days have a normal duration and one where there are very few hours of sunshine (similar to what happens at the poles of the earth). When they say winter is coming they refer to the arrival of the season where there are many hours of darkness and magical creatures awake. The night guard receives information about the plans of savages, who are beyond the wall to cross to the south. They send a troop to further investigate the issue and they leave us more info about the creatures that inhabit the northern parts of the wall.

And finally, we move from north to south. Daenerys continues recruitting an army to cross the sea and reclaim the throne of his family, the famous iron throne. (Personally I think that, if it is succesfull, we will have a good battle ). On his way to recruit his army she passes through magnificent cities where their heads are very colorful and rich merchants. Beliefs, religious or not, and magic reign in this area so that in this part of the story may occur very strange things.

After talking broadly about the events taking place in this second volume of the saga, I want to say that the only problem that I saw in the first volume ( the overwhelming number of names to be controlled to avoid getting lost in history ) continues to increasing, so if you don’t pay attention to what you are reading, you can loose the urge to keep reading. This does not mean that the book is bad or anything like that but needs to be treated carefully.

If I said in the entry for the first volume that the series was incredibly faithful to the book, now I say that the second season loses this quality. In the book there is a huge amount of details that are impossible to capture in the series and, without being proud of what I will tell you, I think is more “efficient” to see the series than reading the book.

I hope I have helped to read, or not,this book if you have not done yet and, of course, the ones who have read the book can comment here.