A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Excellent book. I have recently enjoyed the tv series, so I thought would buy the book and it is presented beautifully. Great quality and the illustrations really help capture the characters and story. Highly recommend to any fan of the tv show and game of thrones

I read ‘ fire & blood ‘ ( which was 700 odd pages ) and loved the world created by George RR Martin , having also been a fan of the t.v shows . This book is next in the reading order , being set a more than a hundred years after the dance with dragons ( which features in fire and blood ) and about a hundred odd years before game of thrones. ( which I intended to read next ) . This is a novella , so isn’t as long as the other books , very palatable read so far with great drawings every couple of pages . GRRM gives a great sense of depth and geographical space in his descriptions and explanations of the world making it easy to imagine and drawing you as the reader into. Fully invested in these characters and looking forward to what they do with the upcoming tv series .

As an absolute fan of the whole ASOIAF world I was really curious about this book and boy is it brilliant! Not to spoil anything but the Trial of Seven and the interactions with Egg funny yet knowing what happens after the events of this book really made it bittersweet. Good quality book and looks and feels brilliant! Anyone who’s a fan of George RR Martins book has got to read this one :)

Love it after watching the tv series. Never read any of the others but may start to now. Easy read it flows. However I did find the many pen line illustrations distracting.

Great book

As a huge GRR Martin fan and, especially, a Game of Ice & Fire fan, perhaps I've just waited too long for the next instalment of the story and the fact that the HBO TV series has now caught up with the books, not to mention changing lots of things, hasn't helped. So I leaped at an opportunity to read a proper GRRM / Game of Thrones prequel, to keep me going until Mr Martin gets around to his next proper edition in the tale. My expectations were high and, possibly because of that, I am left slightly disappointed. Don't get me wrong, any GRRM book is in a different league to most other authors, but, by his standards, this isn't one of his best. As with many of his stories, this one takes ages to get going. That's fine in a series of books covering thousands of pages, within which the plot has time to build and develop, but in a stand alone novel like this, it just feels slow. The first half of the book feels more like it's aimed at a child or adolescent market rather than the usual adult clientele, with just a single use of a shocking word to gainsay that feeling. The main hero, Dunk, is very childlike in all things and his sidekick is, actually, a child. There is the usual character switch of the child being more worldly than the adult but that's hardly new. The descriptive writing is entirely up to Mr Martin's usual impeccable standards and really brings this fantasy world to life. Add to that GRRM's signature mechanism of having characters with shades of grey, so 'friendly' characters can turn out to be villains and vice versa and there is enough here to keep a reader engrossed. Plus, I have always liked the style of using the proper names for bits of armour without spoon feeding the reader with descriptions of what they are; if you don't know what a gorget is, look it up! The action sequences are few and far between and, while that's consistent with other books, I did wonder if the involvement of HBO might have prompted a little more action. It seems not. If you've read the other books, it helps a little as there are frequent references to familiar Houses but it isn't, at all, essential. As a prequel, this story is sufficiently separated from the main series as to be another story entirely. The last quarter of the book lost me entirely in its reliance on the complex interrelationships between the heraldry and complex political arrangements between just about every character in the book. While I had little difficulty in absorbing the intricacies of the House structures and loyalties within the GoT / Game of Ice & Fire series, I soon became utterly lost here. In the end, I gave up and just assumed that Dunk would only harm the bad guys. The book is, very clearly, set up to allow others in the series. Lots of loose ends to tie up and beautiful damsels to meet again. I do hope that Dunk grows up a bit in the next one and isn't such a 'Dudley Do-Right'. I also know that GRR Martin is notorious for not just taking years to finish a book but for also having many books in progress at any one time, often in collaboration with others, so I hope that writing more adventures for Dunk and Egg doesn't draw him away from at least progressing the Ice & Fire series. The first of the Ice & Fire series was a bit of a struggle for some, with the pace picking up as the series progressed, so I'm happy to give GRRM the benefit of the doubt and assume that it's the same in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. As usual, Mr M has inserted a 'hook' into this book as, although the reader is lead to believe that he knows what Dunk's origins are (an orphan of Flea Bottom), we don't really know and the potential for a shocking revelation remains. If he follows his usual style, such shocks may either never come or only come after several books. I'll be happy to give the next book in this series a try. But I won't hold my breath while waiting!

A really enjoyable romp around Westeros with two very likeable characters. I look forward to the HBO series in the autumn. I am.not too sure we will see the promised further adventures; we can hope!

A great story from Westeros, set 100 years before the main story some of the characters mentioned in the main story are mentioned. Feels like a "short story" Well written expands your appreciation for the world and characters dragging you into another aspect of life and point in the history or story of westeros. You could read it as a standalone book or even as the first book you read (as it is the first chronologically) but probably best to read the main story first and then come back as it doesn't really relate to the main story. Enjoyed reading it and the story was over too soon, reading the epilogue it sounds very much like it was in itself intended as the first book of a series following Egg and Dunk's adventures and certainly the book had been setting things up for a continuing journey. That's the only thing about it that makes me rather sad as it seems pretty certain that there will never be a sequel now and so we'll never know the rest of their story. I can understand the pull of writing for TV and likely it's more lucrative but It does feel that it has all robbed us of what would have been a great series of books! I suppose that in itself is a testimony to how much I enjoyed it.

If you are familiar with universe of A Song of Ice and Fire, I am sure you would like this book. PS: Shipment couldnt be any worse.

Having devoured every word of each book in the GOT saga, perhaps I just never gave a try to RR's other spinoffs simply because "nothing could ever compare to that journey." Just maybe it was also because the ending of the series on TV was so painful. Anyway - I fell head over heels in love w Dunk and Egg in the TV series, and was excited to take a deeper dive with the book. But I found it ridiculously confusing to figure out exactly WHICH book to purchase to read the original story. "HBO Tie-In Edition?" I'm still not certain this is RR's original work, but... FYI, if you watched the series first, so much of the key dialog and one-liners are exactly the same and (instead of being annoying and eye-rolling) it seems to draw up all those awesome whooping emotions again. Bravo. Hooked before long and carrying my book to all my appointments and meetings for a few pages here and there. The story follows the TV series EXACTLY (or maybe the other way around?). It is a great read and the sketches along the way add to the charm. I also love that the paperback version is a bit larger, and easier to handle. What is ugly is that the paper of the pages is similar to the texture of newspaper. Maybe there is a reason. Maybe this is where all books will be soon. Maybe it is environmentally more sound. Not sure... but I do like a book to feel good in my hands, and I don't like these flimsy delicate pages - just me.

An instant GRRM favourite in my collection. Incredibly fun and easy read with beautiful illustrations to go with them. Can't wait to read these stories to my children once they get a little older. The story of Dunk and Egg is Inspirational on many levels and teaches many a life lesson.

El libro está muy bien hecho, si tienen la oportunidad, háganse de una copia, el encuadernado es de muy buena calidad, los dibujos son muy buenos y las hojas de muy buena calidad.

I loved it!