"Dunk the Lunk as thick as a castle wall". 


It's always an absolute pleasure to delve back into the expansive the world and lore of Westeros!! It really is amazing how vividly Geroge R.R Martin has imagined it. These extra stories are fascinating in context with the rest of the series and its always great to get the opportunit  to piece together more of the backstories and histories of Westeros. This gave so much more information about the Targaryen Dynasty as well as the Blackfyre Rebellions and the political and social fall out of them in the years that followed. 

I loved Dunk and Egg as characters and I loved the relationship between them. Dunk was such a wonderful character. So great to have a character that grew up in Kingslanding and rose to greatness through his honesty and chivalry. Really rare in the world of Westeros. I absolutely love love loved Egg. I hope we see how he develops from the cheeky precocious hardworking boy he is here to the future king. You can already see how his perception of the value of life and the dangers of war to the common people of Westeros change his worldview from story to story. You also see him come to understand how the Targaryen family are perceived throughout the seven kingdoms,  which also influences him as a ruler later on. Just so great!!


This was just so much more lighthearted than the rest of the series...almost like a buddy-cop road trip kind of story when compared to the darker more twisted and political plot lines of the rest of the main series.