A Show for Two

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His request is that Mina acts as his tour guide around NYC because he wants to win a photography competition, kind of as a way to honor his late father. As Mina ventures across the five boroughs with Emmitt, the city she grew up in starts to look more like home than it ever has before.

During the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico in early December 2016, Martin offered the following hint as to the tone of this book: "There are a lot of dark chapters right now . As Tashie explains in her author’s note at the end of the book, the book’s premise is inspired by something in her own life – when she was in high school, the actor Tom Holland, went undercover as a student in her high school to prepare for his role in Spider-Man. Above all, the books were extremely unpredictable, especially in a genre where readers have come to expect the intensely predictable.

The series, titled Game of Thrones, premiered in April 2011 to great acclaim and ratings (see Game of Thrones § Reception). But seeing the five boroughs through Emmitt’s eyes reminds her how New York City has helped to nurture and grow her when other influences in her life have failed to measure up. Modeled on The Lord of the Rings, the story of A Song of Ice and Fire begins with a tight focus on a small group (with everyone in Winterfell, except Daenerys) and then splits into separate stories. Martin chose A Song of Ice and Fire as the overall series title: Martin saw the struggle of the cold Others and the fiery dragons as one possible meaning for "Ice and Fire", whereas the word "song" had previously appeared in Martin's book titles A Song for Lya and Songs the Dead Men Sing, stemming from his obsessions with songs.As Mina ventures across the five boroughs with Emmitt by her side, the city she grew up in starts to look different and more like home than it ever has before. According to Martin, the fantasy genre rarely focuses on sex and sexuality, [38] instead often treating sexuality in a juvenile way or neglecting it completely. Both one-time and regular POV characters are designed to have full character arcs ending in tragedy or triumph, [38] and are written to hold the readers' interest and not be skipped in reading.