Title: Where's the magic?
Product review: The first book in George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is a true example of "political fantasy", much like the Daughter of the Empire trilogy.While this book begins quite dull, the plot turns in many surprising ways. Martin is not afraid of using very, let's say, unconventional grips to make the story advance. The plot is nevertheless, or perhaps because of that, more plausible than the mentioned trilogy.The only thing that can be held against this collosal epic is the lack of magic and other elements of fantasy. Most of the time it feels like medival-story with a new map, save from a few direwolves. Only at the end does a few things show up, but Martin does not integrate them as well as Robert Jordan.
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