 God, I hate myself sometimes. Hello book world! I'm back and literally I think I've been in the lab more than I have been on this bed. Can't wake up with that being said. Let's begin with a review of Clash of Kings by George R. Martin. A review that I promised you a long time ago. For this one this is going to be just a review. I'm not going to talk about any of the spoilery details involved in Clash of Kings. If you have read the book and do want like a more like discussion based video where I do talk about the things that actually go on and happen in this book in detail and give some spoilers, please check out my Game of Thrones discussion. I will leave a link in the thing down below if I remember or they'll just be on my channel. I would expect that you have read Game of Thrones if you're interested in this at all. If we want to give a brief summary here, basically a Clash of Kings centers around the idea of a bunch of different kings now competing for the throne and then of course you have Danny who is slowly building up her army in the south. And of course we have all of the different perspectives, all the different start perspectives. We have Arya who is going on a very difficult journey disguised as an orphan and trying to live her life without being captured by the Queen's people. We have Bran who is trying to run Winterfell basically all on his own. We have Theon who is trying to balance the idea of being in power and being kind which he doesn't do very well. And of course we have Danny who is like I said competing. We have Tyrion who is trying to run things at home and I really enjoyed his perspective this time. It was always super interesting, always really refreshing and quite frankly Tyrion brought a really smart dynamic perspective to the table that you don't really see with some of the other perspectives. The Clash of Kings obviously has many new perspectives and I enjoyed them but I honestly have to say especially when it came to Theon Greyjoy's new perspective as kind of what I would find a replacement for Med. It didn't really suit me, it didn't tickle my fan- what I was gonna say, it didn't tickle my fancy. I don't know what that means but it didn't do it. I just find Theon incredibly unlikable and there's not that many redeeming qualities about him making him kind of a very stereotypical like superhero movie villain versus like an actual real life villain. He's immature, he's supposed to be my age, he kind of reminds me of some of the boys that I know. We also get two other perspectives that we didn't get last book and that is Davos Seaworth and of course Maester Crescent who only had a perspective in the prologue. Now I liked Maester Crescent's brief little prologue because I think it was a really interesting insight into Stannis and Davos of course brought more insights into Stannis as the book progressed. Now Stannis himself is a really interesting character but I really do enjoy how people are viewing him from the outside because so much of what makes Stannis Stannis is his concern with how other people are viewing him versus how other people view his brother. Now of course at the end of Game of Thrones there is a new seat kind of for the throne available because Joffrey is supposedly illegitimate so you have a ton of kings currently competing for that spot. The more important ones in this novel I feel are Rob and Stannis and Renly and of course we still have Tyrion, Arya, Sansa, Jon, Dany, and Catlin. And I actually didn't dislike Catlin as much in A Clash of Kings as I did in a Game of Thrones. I do have to say the one thing that I didn't like is that there was a part in the book that got very very slow. I think it was about 500 pages in but that was weird to say but it was about like 500 to 700 pages in. It just dragged on which is interesting because the first 500 pages actually went a lot faster for me than Game of Thrones. Another complaint I have about this novel is that some of the perspectives got really boring really fast such as Theons and Catlins and Johns. I feel like those three especially really lacked the certain spark that George R R Martin was able to put into the other perspectives and the certain likeability that he's usually able to put into his characters. I also think it's disappointing how Margaery in the TV show, Margaery Tyrell, and if you haven't seen the show it's not going to be a huge spoiler. It is much more present in the show than she is in the book. In the book it's much more about Renly and also it's interesting like it's definitely hinted at that Renly is in a gay relationship but it's not super like canonized I guess. Well I do think it's actually more well written than at Game of Thrones. It has a lot more complexity but also a lot more like truth and different characters and different perspectives and really different parts of this world that weren't touched on before so I really do appreciate that and I'm also sorry because as I am speaking my voice is slowly leaving me. It is cold and flu season and I have a terrible immune system. Anyway I know this was kind of a weird review, kind of messy, kind of just my thoughts just thrown at you at random. Thank you so much for watching, I hope you keep writing, reading, and doing whatever else you're doing. I will see you next time. Bye!