It can be argued, however, that Catelyn had her fair part in starting the war by kidnapping Tyrion on a whim despite knowing that there was no evidence that he had any part in Bran’s attempted assassination. Tyrion, the voice of reason in my opinion, was a nasty Lannister. I couldn’t wish for the fall of the Lannister family without remembering that Tyrion happened to be apart of that whacky family. This put me in an interesting position as I read the book, because I found myself cursing Catelyn Stark and Cersei Lannister the whole way through. My favorite characters in the first book was a tie between Arya Stark and Tyrion Lannister. Unlike the YA books I had been reading at the time, the story was driven by the protagonists of the book and not simply by whatever antagonizing force happened to be around (I’m looking at you every vampire book ever). Once I started the first novel A Game of Thrones, I couldn’t put it down. I ended up finally picking up the book series thanks to the creation of my Goodreads account and friends that have been reading a whole lot more than I have.

The first bits of the book talk about how Bran is such a great climber.

A clash of kings characters