My favorite thing about the books is how he reinvents fantasy tropes within a low-fantasy world.

It manages to make the fantastical feel truly fantastical in a way that no other book series I've read has.

I like that you can look at and character, or people, or faction in Game of Thrones and draw immediate parallels to real-world mythology and fantasy stories. It is comfy because, instead of trying to subvert or avoid tropes and archetypes, he appropriates them without hesitation.