My biggest disappointment with entire book was that at first it was lovely tale of intrigue, politics, incest and all possible manners of backstabbing, but the moment they introduced magic everything started to sour a little, and when the prophecy hit even book went down the drain to completely hackneyed dark fantasy.
Both were new occurences. Nobody seen zombie for thousands of years (oh also the way they made those zombies speed like Usain Bolt in show was not cool too, in books they were clearly described as slow but very tough) and dragons for some 150, and as we are now in book 5th dragons are still out of Westeros and zombies are still unknown to most of it. I would argue that Red Priest magic of murders and resurrections is much more impactful on the continent so far (though also unknown to almost everyone since almost no one knows and/or believes in both).
Also, magical murder is not really that much different from poison, so it only soured it “a little”. What i mean is more the usual prophecy and apocalyptic danger takin over as main focus of story. Hackneyed.
My biggest disappointment with entire book was that at first it was lovely tale of intrigue, politics, incest and all possible manners of backstabbing, but the moment they introduced magic everything started to sour a little, and when the prophecy hit even book went down the drain to completely hackneyed dark fantasy.
Wasn’t it the fantasy since the beginning? With zombies, dragons and all.
Both were new occurences. Nobody seen zombie for thousands of years (oh also the way they made those zombies speed like Usain Bolt in show was not cool too, in books they were clearly described as slow but very tough) and dragons for some 150, and as we are now in book 5th dragons are still out of Westeros and zombies are still unknown to most of it. I would argue that Red Priest magic of murders and resurrections is much more impactful on the continent so far (though also unknown to almost everyone since almost no one knows and/or believes in both).
Also, magical murder is not really that much different from poison, so it only soured it “a little”. What i mean is more the usual prophecy and apocalyptic danger takin over as main focus of story. Hackneyed.