There are no outright evil characters here. Martin excels at in "A Song of Ice and Fire", it is an intelligent set-up to a much greater story that will inevitably contain many unexpected twists and turns.Īs one of the opposing protagonists - Yang Wen-li - states repeatedly, no one considers themselves the "bad guy" in their own narrative, and this is probably at the core of the novel's theme. It's not a style that everyone will enjoy, but while the story lacks the constant chapter-by-chapter tension that George R.R. Anyone familiar with the series (especially the 80s anime rather than the newer adaptation which keeps closer to the books but hasn't advanced much beyond the first) will know Legend of the Galactic Heroes as a rather ponderous, complex epic.
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