 Hi guys, it's Hanan. Today I'm here to talk about Fire and Blood of George RR Marchion, which came out on 28th of November 2018 and it is a sort of prequel to Game of Thrones series. And before I go into review, I just want to say that I'm a big fan of Game of Thrones. I did not like the last book, the fifth one and actually even the fourth one, but the first three. So my history with Game of Thrones is that I watched the first three seasons first and then I went into the books and yet after, I think it was the fourth season because Jaffrey was dead by then. And after that I went into the books and the first three books I consumed within days. I couldn't put them down. They were so so good. But then unfortunately the fourth one was really really horrible and actually as a matter of fact the TV shows skipped, they completely went to the fifth one and then only later when they didn't have that much material they came back to the fourth one. But till the fourth book they were really following the plot of the book and that's where the mess came. And I don't understand why because the fourth one is absolutely horrible and the fifth one becomes really annoying. It's the book where you're just marching off like dinaries, pretty much everybody. And it's also the book which finishes with Jon Snow dying and we all know how everything else like the TV show shows it later. I'm also not a fan of TV show anymore to be honest. Last two seasons were really horrible in my opinion and I just, like with the last one I didn't even care for it. I watched the whole season later I think quite a few months after. I just didn't really care even though I do consider myself a big fan of Game of Thrones but I do think that both books and TV shows are going really downhill and that's really disappointing for me. So if George Martin decided ever to go back what he wrote, the way he wrote in the first three books and as well the TV show first four seasons was so great, was so great and I really missed that time. Anyway, so because I have read all the books, watched the TV show, I'm quite aware of all the characters and the stories and also even the like hypothesis of the fans and all that. I kind of decided to go into The Fire and Blood even though it is a prehistory but again it's a Hungarian prehistory so it's like 300 years before the rule of Tongarians, how they became the rulers, how the king's landing was created and all that. And at first I was really excited when I started this book. Let me just say this is over 700 pages book so it's pretty big one, it sticks to the other books of George Martin. Obviously they're all really big and I really loved it in the beginning. Yeah, the keyword is in the beginning because in the beginning it's how the Tongarans came to King's Landing actually. They named it King's Landing, how they fought the Starks, the Baratheons and how they were stuck fighting Dorn and how Dorn just like took a totally different turn and then they couldn't take Dorn so literally they just signed the peace in a way. How the first Hungarian king was actually married to two his sisters and we do know that the Tongarans tend to marry within the family and yeah that was like pretty familiar. We also had a lot of familiar names like as I said Baratheons, Starks, Lannisters, all these and it's just in general going back in that world but that we are so familiar with all these locations and everything even though these hartes themselves, we never met them before but it's the like it feels really nice to be back in that familiar world that we so well know and it feels like it doesn't feel like fantasy in a way, it feels like something real and therefore I was really happy. And the first generation actually quite few first generations were really interesting. Unfortunately after that it went really downhill and for me it was the main thing, the main problem that it was very repetitive. It's basically the idea of this book is that you take many many generations, it basically this book could have been made into really nice like sort of fan thing like for fans of the Game of Thrones, companion thing where you have these like family trees all of that who was who and you could have like a little descriptions to them you know like this one was really pretty, this one was crazy, this one took away his brother's throne and split somebody's throat you know. This one was also crazy like this was a jealous you know like this kind of like little description I think would have been much more interesting but unfortunately this is exactly what this book is about. It literally takes every generation and talks about the children, about the spies, about the aunts, about the uncles and all that and how one of them suddenly becomes a ruler, how who knows who you know and if it was a real history it might have been interesting for at least 10-20 generations but now that it's I don't know at this point you really feel it's fictional because you really detach yourself it doesn't make any sense after a while. So in the beginning it really was fun to read it I think it was way too long and I just even as a fan of Game of Thrones I don't see this as a good thing, like a good book, I would not recommend it to anybody. I would say read a few chapters and you're gonna be good with it because the rest is just pure petition because how many times you can say he married his sister, September didn't approve, he married her anyway, had two children, one of them was weak, one was like strong, became a king. That married another sister let's say or like you know it's very very repetitive I mean you can't think that much all that I mean they all either pretty or crazy or I don't know there were some weird things in general happening where like like Kissing Game is a very popular thing throughout this book apparently all the girls want to try Kissing Game and all that it's just I don't know there's so much repetition that at some times I caught my because I was listening to the audiobook of this one I caught myself on my way to work listening to it and just losing my attention so then I wouldn't go back like an hour or so and listen to it again because I totally blacked out on that part I was like I was not accepting permission anymore because it was so so boring and even though Game of Thrones the original series feels very alive that reveal and all the politics and everything yeah it was just like somebody was reading like family trees to giving a little bit of description on it but it wasn't good I think a time was kind of wasted on this book that could have been used for you know writing an x-book in a Game of Thrones series or Ice and Fire series if you prefer calling that name but yeah I just don't think it was a good thing even again as a Game of Thrones fan I wanted to love this one so so much like so so much and it was really sad because again in the beginning I felt really nice reading it I was like pumped you know all this so good going back into that world you know all the Hungarian so cool and yeah it wasn't that so I gave this one actually only two out of five stars again we back in the world some interesting stories but in the end how many times you can listen about the same thing happening again and again just different names don't ask me the names because there was so many and I did not care to remember and I just I don't know it just it just doesn't feel like a good book you know like worth really spending your money because this is obviously overpriced because it's still for three part of Game of Thrones and I don't think you should be spending your money on this one I think if you want to try it take it from the library I mean majority of libraries have this one both order book and the physical copy just do that I don't think it's worth spending 20-30 dollars on this book I really don't so yeah that is my take on fire and blood let me know if you read this one if you're planning to read it and what are your thoughts in general and yeah thank you for watching and I'll see you next video bye