A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Long, but crazy good, even with all the milording and miladying, which still makes me giggle.
Wonderfully strong female characters, especially for a fantasy novel; seriously, where have you been all my life? Especially when I was a teen? (Maybe I should’ve asked my local librarian back then.)
I started watching the show, as well, and was trying to hold off on reading ahead, but in typical me fashion, I failed and am already starting book two, even though I’m only up to episode 4 in the series, ha!
Really fantastic pacing, plot, descriptions (every time I read a bit, I want to go eat meat and drink beer afterwards), characters, dialogue and vocabulary – two of my new favorite words are now smallclothes and smallfolk, but I am probably biased because I am a small person. 
