Baddies in books: Joffrey Baratheon, king of villains In George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series, characters come in shades of grey – except for Joffrey, the most hateful 12-year old in literature Warning: contains spoilers His Grace, Joffrey of the Houses Baratheon and Lannister, the First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm is “truly a little shit”. He really is: we know it one page into his entrance in George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones series and so do the characters – one of them makes the above observation minutes after meeting him. And I can’t disagree; Joffrey is a pint-sized brute. He is a snivelling 12-year-old prince whose viciousness is indulged by his cunning mother Queen Cersei, and largely ignored by King Robert Baratheon, an affable drunk of a ruler. But the boy is not just figuratively a bastard: Joffrey is not Robert’s son at all, but the bastard product of his mother’s incestuous dabblings with her twin brother Jaime, thus fulfilling all your nasty suspicions about weird royal families. Continue reading... ift.tt/15NHd2x #love #read #text #bookworm #books #words #climax #readinglist #paper #library #author #imagine #pages #instagood #story #plot #quotes #art #poet #literate #book #nook #inspire #prose #poetry #inspiration #ink
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