The Ice Dragon

Very powerful short story. I don't think I understand all the thematic significance going on here but I was very moved regardless.

I thought I was too salty about ASOIAF to enjoy Martin much anymore, but this was a really lovely fairy tale, lushly illustrated. It looks like a novella, but it's really a short story, and Martin's prose works really well within those confines. If you like a story that feels like an old tale but with a modern take, definitely give this one a try.

Audio read by: Maggi-Meg Reed

While I understand this was GRRM's attempt at a book for middle-grade readers, and while I believe GRRM's prose is solid...this book was just sort of an empty fairy tale that did not really do anything for me.

Short fun story amazing illustrations

This was a truly beautiful tale

I listened to this one and really liked it.

This is a short story about a girl named Adara and an ice dragon.

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A cute, sad and poetic short-story, very faithful with the traditional fairytale outline. I enjoyed it.

Solid story with beautiful illustrations. Also, DRAGONS.

I loved this! A nice short fantasy story. I immediately got into the story and the illustrations are so beautiful that I stayed on a page for a while after I finished reading it. Though it's geared towards children I think everyone would enjoy this light read. I'd love to read more books like this!

Gotta say: I adored this book. It is a really nice read through. It's a realpy nice childrens book, although there is a scene about split heads, other than that I think it's really nice. The illustrations are beautiful and it is nice to see that there is a book written by GRRM that doesn't include chopping the main characters heads off and having incest. I was kinda unsure about the world, it said that the world was the same as the one from A song of ice and fire, although it contains dragons, I do not think it's the exact same world. I have to admit, I find the ending really sad, first of all the dragon dying and also that Adara became so “summery”, I liked her coldness and I didn't see any sadness from her side about the Ice dragon dying. Other than that, once again a really great story, and I hope to read it to my children once.

A fun, but dark, little children's story about dragons and winter, which has some thematic similarities to Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. Enjoyable enough but nothing special.