The World of Ice and Fire is a beautiful book, but with a 4th grade reading level. The pictures are magnificent, they are worth the price of admission but the prose are just awful. It is boringly written, and outside the targaryen history, I don't think their is a single fact in these books not contained in the novels. Just a bunch of shit thrown on the wall.
I can help but feel this is a blatant cash grab, though to be fair the artwork does elevate this book to a respectable coffee table book (but who would want to actually read a coffe table book?)
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