Fire & Blood
Three hundred years of Targaryen rule told as disputed chronicle, by a maester who often admits he cannot say what really happened.
Written as a maester’s history rather than a novel, this covers the Targaryen dynasty from Aegon’s conquest through the civil war the family fought against itself. Martin adopts the voice of a chronicler working from partial and contradictory sources, so events arrive hedged and disputed and the reader is left weighing which account to believe. It is the book behind House of the Dragon, and it reads like a real history of an invented country.
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