![]() ![]() This is presented as an ‘official’ Targaryen history and Martin has great fun sprinkling suggestions between the lines that not everything should be taken at face valueįirst things first: we finally get a description of Aegon the Conqueror’s arrival in Westeros with his sisters Visenya and Rhaenys and, of course, their dragons. ![]() ![]() Martin’s project is unrestrained, as though when away from the weight of wrestling the rest of ASOIAF into submission (he recently admitted that he is finding it particularly hard to complete the penultimate book The Winds of Winter) he can write with the sense of freedom that made that series so enjoyable. Martin has talked about how he was influenced by Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which might make his new project sound rather more dry than it actually is. ![]()
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