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smittyDX

[Spoilers Extended] Best chapters in Fire and Blood?

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I'm not typically a book reader but after hearing about the House of Dragon spinoff show, I wanted to read the book Fire and Blood. So for Christmas I got both Fire and Blood and A Game of Thrones. Initially I didn't bother to read AGOT because, well I had already watched the show so I started reading Fire and Blood.

The first few chapters were great but after that, the Jahearys chapters are dreadfully boring, a ponderous tome, as Pycelle would say. I had to stop reading when GRRM wouldn't shut up about these damn maidenhood books at the Citadel for 4 pages.

Since Christmas I've read not even 200 pages of Fire and Blood but I'm loving the main series, I have to stop myself from reading too much of it each day.

Just wondering what the best chapters are and if I really need to read all of the damn Jahearys stuff?

Posted Mar 20, 2020, 1:49 AM UTC

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azgx29Aegon III Targaryen, The Broken King•

You really have to read all of it, but the last chapters are the best. The ones with Aegon III

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AGOT is only first book of the series and books are very different than show, characters don't suffered from lobotomy. About F&B, the best character for me is Rhaena Targaryen and if you ask why? Keep reading Jahearys's stuff.

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smittyDXOPEnter your desired flair text here!•

Yes I know I am nearly finished with the 2nd book and indeed they are different.

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JTC97•

My $0.02. Definitely just keep working on the main series for now. F&B is fun supplemental material if you’re okay with reading a fictional history textbook or are particularly invested in the Targaryens, but holy shit the actual books are just SO GOOD.

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MyrishWeaver•

I enjoyed the Jahaerys chapters to no end, he (GRRM) lulls you into a sense of all's peaceful and stuff only to set the dumpster fire that follows to unbearable levels of grief and sadness, of wasted opportunities and couldawouldashoulda. And yet, the story makes perfect sense. Skip them if you like, though the wake of the story lingers on to the Dance and beyond, so it would be a lot of later stuff with no context. But I agree that, even though I have enjoyed F&B very much, it is a different beast than ASOIAF and it's a different type of read.

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BaelonTheBae•

Don’t even need to get to the prelude to the Dance, Aegon III’s regency and the Lysene Spring for it to get good.

Midway through Jaehaerys I’s chapters, right around the time where he and Alysanne had established their family and produced the best heir and the spare the Seven Kingdoms had ever seen (aside from Breakspear), would be the turning point — a good mix of ‘war’, if you would call it that, and political drama.

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GatoEnPraga•

The Hour of the Wolf

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ShinyPlatypus91•

Jaehaerys the Conciliator is actually one of my favorite characters in the ASOIAF canon so I liked all his chapters. Especially when he does epic king shit like when he made Ser Joffery a part of his kings guard.

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