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A Dance with Dragons
- Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire
- Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
- Length: 48 hrs and 53 mins
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A Dance with Dragons is part one of book five in this sweeping epic fantasy audiobook series A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R. R. Martin and narrated by veteran British actor Roy Dotrice. Now the inspiration behind the major HBO TV series Game of Thrones. Queen Daenerys’ dragons have matured. They have been locked away and are simmering with unimaginable power. Her enemies have found out of their existence. The dragons are loyal to no one. The monstrous army gathering behind the wall of ice and stone continues to grow stronger. Available now from Audible.
Summary
The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Dance with Dragons.
HBO’s hit series 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 Dance with Dragons is the fifth volume in the series.
The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance.
In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies.
Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her dragons. Among them the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King’s Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father, Lord Tywin.
To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault.
On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all....
Critic reviews
"In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best...tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting." (Time magazine)
"An absorbing, exciting read.... Martin's style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages." (The Times)
"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)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Neville
- 20-01-12
Victarion Australian ?
Well yes, that first - had Roy Dorice really run out of accents so badly that he had to make Victarion Greyjoy australian ? That really is bizarre. Why not scandinavian or even russian?
And secondly, there are so many characters in these books that someone must be keeping a record of how they sound. How come the producer, who together with Roy Dotrice, must have had a reference file of how everyone sounds, didn't say "Hang on Roy, that sounds nothing like Xxxx !"
I'd love an explanation of why Dany goes from young english to old irish; Bran goes from child english to child westcountry; Stannis goes from quick northern to slow northern; Cersei goes from english to welsh; Melisandre goes from exotic siren to girly french and Strong Belwas covers an entire spectrum.
But now we've established that voices can change willy-nilly, can Victarion PLEASE not have an accent that couldn't have existed at the time.
I know Roy does a lot of voices but couldn't he do Cockney for some characters, or Spanish (as I reckon Dorn is Spain)
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- amndwall
- 01-06-21
Roy Dotrice does a poor job.
The accents and mannerisms acted out for many characters are either too intense or they change between chapters/books. Before I could barely stand to hear him talk as walder frey or coughing Giles but now as well in victarions final chapter dotrice makes him sound incredibly weird, the accent used for victarion there is absolutely dreadful, it's as if he has some kind of old American twang in his voice. It's like Dotrice tries his best to show off his acting and voices but doesn't realise that his efforts to show off are actually ruining the book.
Also if you pick an accent for a character don't change it constantly, arya now sounds like utter garbage. Such a shame that such a good book could have such little effort put into acting out the story
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- Matthew Webb
- 10-12-21
Generally good
The overall Reading is good, but the Narrator’s voices for a few of the characters has changed throughout the novels, which is a little frustrating as I feel his first voices for characters like LittleFinger were perfect.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-10-21
incredible book, dragged down by by the narration
Good book let down by Roy's uninspiring performance and constant inaccuracies. Still would recommend
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- john
- 23-12-12
Life goes on -in a surprising way!-
The Game of Thrones keeps going on, while the characters you've learnt to love or hate throughout decades and hundreds of pages live and die. Their stories get interwined in such a surprising way you simply can't wait for the new books to be available. In between, you can be led by the perfectly suited voice of the reader to Westeros and the Free Cities, to King's Landing or to the Wall, to watch the plot unravelling again and again. With a camera that keeps changing point of view and therefore offers snapshots of inner motivation of friends and foes alike, the eternal comedy of man, love, hatred and lust for power, is been played before your eyes.
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- Alex
- 08-07-13
One of the best series I have ever read
Where does A Dance with Dragons (Part One) rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The Game of Thrones in general is a series which ranks up with the best I have ever read or listened to. The various plots and sub-plots are intertwined, play upon each other and are all developed. At no time have I noticed a sub-plot just being dropped and not concluded.
Character development is brilliant. The size of the books allows leisurely character development which is exploited to the full. You become really interested in the characters and their successes and failures and the outcome of their lives.
Plot development is fabulous, full of twists and turns and unexpected outcomes.
I much prefer the books to the TV series, although the TV series is well produced and managed (and is why I started to read the books), the more leisurely pace of the books suddently starts to explain a lot of things which happen in the TV series.
I absolutely loved the series and will be waiting patiently for the last book in the servies to be published.
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- Kieran Horgan
- 06-05-17
I really enjoy this book
This story was very interesting just as good as the others, made better by the lack of stupid voice by Roy Detreece.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mr
- 23-12-12
One of the best books in the series
Some significant advances in the story line develop in this book, while some threads are still developing others are making some long awaited revelations. This is another fantastic book in the series and a must ready to follow and complete the series.
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- Gwen
- 21-12-18
Excellent listen.
Great voice overs.
An adictive story to listen to.
Consistency of character accents.
Good plot development.
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- George Bailey
- 30-08-18
pronounces the second t in trebuchet!
the only issue I found, a stupid and petty issue but still annoying!
great book!
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