Book 5: A Dance With Dragons

A Dance With Dragons has been out for ages now, more than a month, and Iâ??ve read it twice and Iâ??m hoping everyone else has had the chance to read it too.

Dubbed â??the American Tolkienâ? by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his landmark seriesâ??as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.

A Dance with Dragons is the fifth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin. Despite original predictions of possible completion in late 2006, the novel was released on July 12, 2011. Martin officially finished the book April 27, 2011 by delivering the 1500+ page manuscript into the hands of book editor Anne Groell while completing it at her office in New York City.[1]

A Dance with Dragons is the fifth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin. In some areas the paperback edition was published in two parts titled Dreams and Dust and After the Feast. It is the first novel in the series to be published following the commencement of the HBO series adaptation, Game of Thrones.