A review by ar2chn30713
Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire by Myke Cole, James Lowder, Andrew Zimmerman Jones

4.0

I was interested by this book when I first saw it and then when it was listed for under 3 bucks as a Kindle edition I went for it. Take this book at face value, it's fans and bloggers looking at the series as a whole and chatting about it. Scholarly research it is not. But what this is essentially is paramount to buddies sitting on the couch and talking about books they dig. Chock full of spoilers and conjecture this book digs into the series and discusses a lot of cool ideas: romanticism, feminism, and Post traumatic syndrome. It discusses the Dunk and Egg stories and really digs into one of the greater mysteries of the series... Jon Snow's parentage. This is a worthwhile read if you like the series but if you frequent the online forums there is nothing new here. Also, the essay about collecting the paper books fell flat for me. Otherwise this book was a lot of fun and a fast read.