Martin liked it more than I did
Apparently this series partly inspired Game of Thrones, and one can see why Martin is drawn to it, though this first volume seems to resemble Showtime’s Tudors and Borgias series as well. There is pretty of adultery happening, and nice revenge being plotted. The women characters are rather two dimensional in some ways, and the bad princesses are depicted as the stereotypical bad princesses (for the most part). Still entertaining. It’s short enough that it doesn’t drag. To be honest, though, it makes me one to watch it more than read it, if you know what I mean.
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