A Dance with Dragons: More than 650,000 Copies Sale!

July 11, 2011 more than 650,000 hardcover copies of A Dance With Dragons (Bantam, $35), go on sale in the USA, with translators in 40-some languages standing by. A Dance with Dragons, the fifth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, was actually the title of the second novel in the sequence. That Martin’s latest Song hits bookstores on Tuesday. After the publisher announched On March 03, 2011 A Dance with Dragons would be officially published on July 12, 2011 and publishers are expecting a blowout best-seller.

A Dance with Dragons



"A Dance with Dragons" is just simply a book, of course. This book is not the Second Coming or anything. And I know that George R.R. Martin must feel a lot of pressure concerning this one. It’s late and it has to repair some of the damage done by "A Feast for Crows," which frankly thought as if it was created by a ghost writer at times. Last but not least that book is here, and some of the things we’ve been wondering about for more than a decade are actually revealed (not everything, but at least some things). "A Dance with Dragons" has the same structural problems as the previous book; this is sprawling and incoherent at times, but at least the characters are more interesting than in the previous installment. It does feel like I’m reading a bunch of separate stories within the same setting–the chapters are told through the eyes of various characters–but that doesn’t really bother me as I love the setting and like to see it through various points of view.
"A Dance with Dragons" novel has been the carrot George R.R. Martin’s been dangling before his fans, and now that it is here I sincerely hope work on the next novel in the series, "The Winds of Winter," commences quickly and that Martin will update his readers regularly on the progress of that sixth volume, without riddles and metaphors. HBO’s TV series based on his books, "Game of Thrones," has won him a very good number of new readers, so he’ll have many more starved fans for the next volume.