glad this was an audio book otherwise wouldn’t have bothered to finish. i mainly wanted to read it because of the tv series house of the dragons -  and have to say i’m glad the screenwriters did a great job at improving the story, namely they toned down the sexism, fatshaming, ableism and hints of racism of the book.
 
having focused on more diverse fantasy books in the past years i found myself really bored of the stereotypical tropes here. 

the storytelling is tiresome, even though at times this pretense historiography adds some comic relief in the form of mushroom, the court fool, who wrote down parts of the history. 

also, spoilers,

the slaughter of 4 dragons by a bunch of drunk shepherds makes absolutely no sense

- feels like a lazy plot to me.