A Storm of Swords

Book 3 of A Song of Ice and Fire

By: George R.R. Martin

Narrated by: Roy Dotrice

Length: 47 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Storm of Swords.

HBO’s hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A Storm of Swords is the third volume in the series.

The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.

The men of the Night’s Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings 20000 strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness – poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown.

But Robb’s defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark’s enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei’s ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery.

And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband’s funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.

©2011 George R. R. Martin (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"Colossal, staggering.... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world...one of the greats of fantasy literature." ( SFX)

"Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads.... Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias." ( Guardian)

Great book!

Such a crazy ending of this book; the epilogue... Sick (In a good way) I think this is my favorite book out of the first three!

Gripping!

this was another masterpiece by GRRM. spectacular writing, wonderful narration save a few minor gaps in the audio.

Brilliant epic

Would you listen to A Storm of Swords (Part One) - Steel and Snow again? Why?

The narration is excellent and suits the story which is also of epic proportions

Who was your favorite character and why?

Tirien witty character with a good helping of the good and bad in him and really cunning

What does Roy Dotrice bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Excellent narration his uses of the different dialecs and ability to switch between them in conversation makes the story all the more authticland excitinga

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

A classic epic involving in depth explainations of the 7r ealms

More than pleased

Loved it, stretch lissend for a whole week and loved every chapter. Great for slack..

The best in the series yet!

A Storm of Swords is the third book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. It is in my view the best of the series so far. There is so much going on, and its all nail-biting and exciting! It evokes so many emotions in you, you literally cannot stop until you get to the end. The characters grow and start changing. You see different sides to most of them and start understanding them much better.
 
The narration is, once again, absolutely amazing. Roy has more voices than you could ever imagine and does them all with flair. What an epic performer!
 
This was definitely the best in the series thus far, I highly recommend this book.

stunning

absolutely amazing storytelling and such gripping narrative . every character shines and grows with every page

Brilliant riveting and a saga to rival LOR

Where does A Storm of Swords (Part One) - Steel and Snow rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Its great and whats fabulous is the series and the book match which is double the benefit

Hotdamn, Roy

Roy Dotrice is a complete rockstar. His performance, which much have taken an obscene amount of time (He's done audiobooks for the whole series) is flawless, and the giant range of character voices is extremely impressive. An awesome audiobook that I absolutely powered through.

Minor editing

Two chapters mixed in as one chapter number 78 where tyrion's and sam's chapter mixed as one

The overall performance is so bad

The story is of the highest quality but the narrator performance and the production are horrendous. Why Missandei character spoke as if she had a mouth full of marbles?! Is it a joke?! The producer is just as responsible for this poor production as the narrator.