A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was my return to the wonderful world of A Song of Ice and Fire. I read this book out of wimp, this mainly because I decided stopped reading A Dance with Dragons about half-way through because I felt it was more of the same as of A Feast for Crows, where the story was going at such a dire pace; it was becoming somewhat painful to endure. Like the rest of the world, I’m hopeful of George RR Martin’s assertion of working full time on the next novel The Winds of Winter, and finally finish the novel, would eventually motivate me to restart A Dance with Dragons once The Windows of Winter is published. So for now, I have the prequels.

This book is awesome, it was such a pleasant and enjoyable read, it truly reminded me why I loved the first three novels of A Song of Ice and Fire. In this book, we get to read the adventures of a “hedge knight” ie knight errant Ser Duncan “The Tall” and his squire, Egg. In a way, this book felt like the Don Quixote of ASoIaF. Thus said, the setting is very much Westeros, so the brutally of this fictional world is the same that we already know and love.

The book is divided into three short stories ie novellas. The standalone stories are not necessarily connected (as far as I know) to the main story line in A Song of Ice and Fire. However one thing that I really liked about this collection of short stories, was reading more about the history of the world and the current state of it. This book includes illustrations that certainly help bring the stories to life. Reading this book actually motivated me to go back to my book shelf and checkout The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones which has been sitting there anxiously waiting to be read.