A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition (A Song of Ice and Fire Illustrated Edition)

Best book I've bought. Love the pics and the map. Will be buys the others in the series.

The illustrations in this book are absolutely stunning! Perfect for the story. And what a story! Ice zombies! Betrayal! Family Drama! People who for aome reason cant come up with different names! Seriously, Dany? Rhaego? Seriously, Starks and Arryns? Brandon? Jon?Not important!A series of wild events that starts with the death of Jon Arryn, Hand of the king ends up with Ned Stark taking his place. Oh, and there are ice zombies)Its a wild ride filled with some of the most lovable and despicable characters in fantasy that ive read so far.

The story’s great, everyone knows that. These illustrations are beautiful! So many illustrations! Also the book arrived plastic sealed! No dents!

I love the way this book looks. Not only is it pretty on the outside but also on the inside. It includes beautiful pictures throughout the story and has a map on the front and back of the book. Definitely recommend to GOT lovers.

I love it. In fact, I'm smitten. There is only one flaw in the book, as far as I can tell, and it is the fact that many of the illustrated pages are printed greyscale. I feel like 3/5 are greyscale. It's only one fault, but it grates my nerves. This is a collector's edition, and they took the time to give you these beautiful illustrations, but you can't fully appreciate some of the illustrations, because some of the details are lost without color. Some sigils might be hard to see, or house colors are impossible to figure out since they are shown in blacks, greys, and whites.This works against the placement of the illustrated pages, since the scenes pictured aren't necessarily happening on the page they're paired with. They just relate to that particular chapter. I'm assuming they did it to keep the cost down, but if that is the case, then why not provide the option to buy a more expensive, fully-colored version? That being said, I do appreciate the fair cost of this current book. You get your money's worth for the price. I would just like the option for the fully colored version.The reason above is the only thing that made me hesitate on giving this book 5 stars. I still fully recommend that everyone buy it. The illustrations are gorgeous. Gorgeous. And they fit the descriptions in the book alot more accurately, which is even more amazing since the illustrations were done by different people. I counted at least 4 different painting styles. All of the paintings beautifully captured the characters and various moments in the book.This book is still the well-written masterpiece by George Martin, only it now has a beautiful hardback cover (the best cover out of the ones available, in my opinion). If you don't own a copy of Game of Thrones, this is the one to buy. And if you do own a copy of Game of Thrones, I think you will still enjoy owning this book. Gift your old copy to a friend who has yet to discover the magic of Westeros, and pick up this version. It's definitely worth it.

Wonderful kindle version of Game of Thrones, one of my favorite TV shows, with really wonderful illustrations, both in black and white and in color

I bought all three illustrated editions, this one for some reason seems flimsier than the others. The binding is not as rigid compared to the Clash of Kings and Storm of Sword. The paper feels much more newspaper-like as well.

This book is beautiful, and the colors are vibrant. It arrived in perfect condition. I will say though that i wished i knew beforehand that the quality of the other illustrated versions of the series went downhill after the first book. In book 3 a storm of swords the illustrations are just really bad, and you can't tell who it is or what's going on and they are not in color. The illustrated edition of a feast for crows and a dance with dragons are not available (at least from amazon). So, if you are looking to get a whole matching set of the series i wouldn't get the illustrated versions and probably just buy the whole set. I was new to the series and thought i would buy the books as i read them but since the illustrated versions aren't available after book 3 they are not going to sit pretty together on my shelf.