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Quests for chivalry and loyalty in Westeros

June 27, 2017 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

This is a review for the audiobook version of the first three ‘Dunk and Egg’ novellas by George R R Martin, set about a hundred years before Game of Thrones. They come together in one file on Audible, which is quite nice and easy. Each novella is about 3-4 hours long (much easier to digest than the 33+ hours of A Game of Thrones, for example). The novellas are difficult to find on their own, coming in edited volumes from a variety of sci-fi/fantasy authors (at […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Harry Lloyd's voice, the hedge knight, the mystery knight, the sworn sword

Aquillia's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Harry Lloyd's voice, the hedge knight, the mystery knight, the sworn sword ·
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Dunk and Egg Strike Back

January 18, 2014 by narfna 1 Comment

NOTE: The Sworn Sword was originally published as a novella in the Legends II anthology, edited by Robert Silverberg. As before in my review of The Hedge Knight, I did not read many of the novellas due to spoilers, so this review will only cover The Sword Sword, which is the second Dunk and Egg novella. (Actually, the only other one that I read was Gaiman’s American Gods novella, which was pretty good, by the way.) The Sworn Sword opens a year and a half […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: a song of ice and fire, fantasy, george r.r. martin, legends ii, narfna, novellas, prequel, the sworn sword, the tales of dunk and egg

narfna's CBR6 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: a song of ice and fire, fantasy, george r.r. martin, legends ii, narfna, novellas, prequel, the sworn sword, the tales of dunk and egg ·
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