The Princess And The Queen, Or, The Blacks And The Greens (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Everybody dies in the most brutal way would be a fitting title for this story. It is a good story, though, a lesson that civil war should be avoided at all costs. Having grown dragons of different glowing colours clash in battle is wonderful for cinematic scenes in the head; I so hope they make a GoT spinoff for this or Aegon's Conquest. Besides, this story contains some new insight into dragonlore which I greatly appreciated. Still, it does not fit the anthology's title "Dangerous Women". The "Queen" is an old woman really appearing only in the beginning to sit at a table and scheme against the "Princess", who herself never sees any battle action, but sits in a room clutching her children and swearing vengence much like Cersei in the Battle of Blackwater. The only women with a tiny bit of action are a bastard girl becoming a dragonrider, a "Queen who never was" and the daughter of the Princess' husband. BUT, all these actions are only about two pages each - the rest is done by men. Thus, a very good but sad story which does not deal as much with female action as promised. What a tale of woe! This was a very enjoyable read, and it was great to see Westeros in a time when dragons were still plentiful. As this was a short story there were no chapter breaks, but with the huge amount of characters George Martin likes to throw into a book, this became overwhelming at times. It was also quite hard to intimately follow the storyline. Nevertheless I'm glad I picked it up, and look forward to reading some of his other short stories before the next season of Game of Thrones starts. I should mention that the editing was atrocious; I picked up about 10 spelling or grammatical errors.
What do You think about The Princess And The Queen, Or, The Blacks And The Greens (2013)?
not the work of its own. just for ASOIAF fandom, also written in dry chronicle language
—Alicia
I only read this to feed my addiction to Westoros and glad I did really good story.
—Britt
Part of me wishes GRRM had spent the time writing The Winds of Winter instead.
—tasha
