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5.09k reviews for:
De opkomst van het huis Targaryen van Westeros
Niels van Eekelen, George R.R. Martin, Jet Matla, Renée Vink
3.97 AVERAGE
5.09k reviews for:
De opkomst van het huis Targaryen van Westeros
Niels van Eekelen, George R.R. Martin, Jet Matla, Renée Vink
3.97 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
dark
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I am glad I have read this book, as it provides great backstory for a lot of the events in the GoT series. However, I felt the book to be very fragmented. Of course the nature of the book is to explore the events of each monarchy in the Targaryen line, but some plot lines were exciting and fast paced whereas others just felt boring.
The book is told by the perspective of maesters and a court jester which is interesting as stories get told differently at times. Yet as I got further into the book, it felt more like a history book than a fantasy book.
The ending felt quite unsatisfactory for me too. I feel the end of the book felt like a bit of a trudge.
Glad I read it, but maybe wouldn’t be quick to recommend to others
The book is told by the perspective of maesters and a court jester which is interesting as stories get told differently at times. Yet as I got further into the book, it felt more like a history book than a fantasy book.
The ending felt quite unsatisfactory for me too. I feel the end of the book felt like a bit of a trudge.
Glad I read it, but maybe wouldn’t be quick to recommend to others
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a great view in to the pre-history of the Fire and Ice saga, all the way back to the first Targaryen king when dragons still ruled the sky. Highly recommended for any Game of Thrones fan.
The universe of a Song of Ice and Fire is impressive, I started with the 5 books of the main saga, then the author published a saga talking about 100 years before, this book leads you 300 years before and the only thing I can say is that now I need to know what happened 500 years ago. The amount of characters is overwhelming but incredible, knowing the stories from the conquest to almost reach the knight of the seven kingdoms is a trip you must make if you like the main saga. It does not matter if you are a fan of the Stark or the Targaryen, the Lannister or the Baratheon, this book will fascinate you. The narrator is well implemented and you feel natural, although for a few moments he makes use of a class of "spoilers" to keep you reading. I'm sure you will enjoy this book.
Written like a history book. Easy to read. I found this very interesting.
I'm sorry that this had to come to an end, it felt like it was never going to.
It's hard to critique the book because Martin hides behind a fictional author and several sources in its telling and thus any faults are intentional and pinned on them. I think the lack of any in depth treatment of any female character is striking - almost all meet horrible ends and are not well loved by history and Westeros' patriarchy. I think the show is taking the right direction to give the Queens much more depth and humanity than they are given here. We get insight into the emotions and thoughts of many men but never any of the women. Alysanne is the closest we get. I got SO TIRED of women dying in childbirth, getting raped, forced into protestution, multilated, and murdered, however. Martin needs to do better for women.
I am glad the show chose to portray the Velaryons as Black and I think it's ingenious; Westeros is so stupidly white and it is hard to tell Velaryons apart from Valyrians and Targaryens while reading. Keeping with the Black depiction in my head, it made it much easier to tell everyone apart as bloodlines merged and diverged.
Mushroom is really fucking annoying. I get what Martin is doing, he wants readers to question everything critically and uses Mushroom's over the top stories to emphasize that. But goddamn he and his stupid stories don't need to be present in 75% of the book to make the point strike home.
Corlys Velaryon and his family are honestly the true heroes of the Dance, having lived through, what, 5 or 6 kings/queens? I'd love to read more on their family. And the Starks are constantly keeping the shitty kingdom together and holding people responsible. I think having Aegon III have PTSD, hate dragons, and be emotionally empty after watching his family destroy itself is smart. Too many fantasy stories end in unrealistic happy ever afters. I like that this expands on the Westeros lore but leaves so many holes and untold stories for my imagination to fill and have fun with. Questions are answered....but many new ones are asked.
Reading this ahead of the show's end may have ruined some of the emotional surprises for me but the show runners have changed so much and have so much wiggle room with this text that there will still be many surprises in store for me and how they decide to tell this story.
It's hard to critique the book because Martin hides behind a fictional author and several sources in its telling and thus any faults are intentional and pinned on them. I think the lack of any in depth treatment of any female character is striking - almost all meet horrible ends and are not well loved by history and Westeros' patriarchy. I think the show is taking the right direction to give the Queens much more depth and humanity than they are given here. We get insight into the emotions and thoughts of many men but never any of the women. Alysanne is the closest we get. I got SO TIRED of women dying in childbirth, getting raped, forced into protestution, multilated, and murdered, however. Martin needs to do better for women.
I am glad the show chose to portray the Velaryons as Black and I think it's ingenious; Westeros is so stupidly white and it is hard to tell Velaryons apart from Valyrians and Targaryens while reading. Keeping with the Black depiction in my head, it made it much easier to tell everyone apart as bloodlines merged and diverged.
Mushroom is really fucking annoying. I get what Martin is doing, he wants readers to question everything critically and uses Mushroom's over the top stories to emphasize that. But goddamn he and his stupid stories don't need to be present in 75% of the book to make the point strike home.
Corlys Velaryon and his family are honestly the true heroes of the Dance, having lived through, what, 5 or 6 kings/queens? I'd love to read more on their family. And the Starks are constantly keeping the shitty kingdom together and holding people responsible. I think having Aegon III have PTSD, hate dragons, and be emotionally empty after watching his family destroy itself is smart. Too many fantasy stories end in unrealistic happy ever afters. I like that this expands on the Westeros lore but leaves so many holes and untold stories for my imagination to fill and have fun with. Questions are answered....but many new ones are asked.
Reading this ahead of the show's end may have ruined some of the emotional surprises for me but the show runners have changed so much and have so much wiggle room with this text that there will still be many surprises in store for me and how they decide to tell this story.