"The Reign of the Dragons" focuses on the Conquest, while the third one, "The Targaryen Kings", features nearly one hundred pages elaborating on every single Targaryen monarch in the history of the Seven Kingdoms. That and the following section, "The Fall of the Dragons", paint a somewhat clearer picture which allows fans of A Song of Ice and Fire to understand exactly how events escalated and how they led to the fall of the Mad King and Robert Baratheon's rebellion. That, in and of itself, is worth the cover price. I kid you not.

"The Seven Kingdoms" section features over one hundred pages focusing on the history, the cities, the castles, and the Houses of the North, the Wall, the Riverlands, the Vale, the Iron Islands, the Westerlands, theReach, the Stormlands, and Dorne. Considering the staggering amount of historical details contained within this section, it's no wonder that The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones took such a long time to write. But in light of all this depth, the time spent to get everything right was time well spent. In "Beyond the Sunset Kingdoms" the authors focus on the Free Cities, the Summer Isles, the Basilisk Isles, the Shivering Sea, Yi Ti, Leng, Asshai-by-the-Shadow, and beyond. I would have loved to get more maps of those distant lands, even with the caveat that they were unofficial.

The book ends with appendices featuring the lineage of the Targaryens, the Starks, and the Lannisters. The last appendix focuses on