Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon)

Diving into this book, I thought it would be wordy and a little drawn out. I'm pleased to say that I was wrong to assume that.
Fire and Blood read much like a history book. (For me that is far from boring.) Pulled into the history of the Targaryen's was fascinating and consumed me until the last page. This is only the first part of the Targaryen reign over Westeros. From Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon the 3rd you get a great deal of detail of the history behind each of the rulers within that time. I look forward to volume two.

This was a good, read it like a history book, book. I listened to the audio and it was about 26 hours, I think. So it took a bit to get through. For the most part, I'm pretty happy learning the history of the Targaryen family, even if it did meander some. But after watching the last season of the HBO series, I'm ok with meandering instead of weird character turns that were ran through way too quickly.

Yes, I did like the show so don't complain there.

As for the book, it was really cool to hear the back story and to know there was a time when dragons flew over the kingdom like birds.

Let it be said that I did want to give this less stars because some parts were so boring BUT what self respecting book of history isn’t boring at times? The fact that GRRM can write a history book about a fictional world is actually really impressive.

I live it and it's a great story .

I started with this book as House of Dragons s. 1 was airing but at the time I hadn't read any of the Song of Ice & Fire. I still really enjoyed the book however. I loved the way the story was told as if I was reading a history book from Westeros and how the accounts of what happened can differ. After I finish Song of Ice & Fire I'll definitely be reading Fire & Blood again with a better understanding of the different houses and characters.