“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”
Martin.Ī collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings. Although the writer of historical fiction has to fill in fictional dialog and thoughts for the characters, as very little of this will have been recorded anywhere, I think that as far as the large tapestry of events taking place at the time, this series stays pretty close to what are known to be the actual events of the time.“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. It is the story of the French Kings, their political struggles, and their succession – or lack thereof. Most of the story as it appears in these first three volumes of the series is set in France. The kind that was much abetted by real poisons and the imaginings of guilty consciences. The kind that often eventually got its practitioners burned at the stake (although as of the end of the third of these three books that had not yet happened to the witch weaving the magic). The magic here though is the kind frequently practiced in fourteenth-century Europe: the kind woven of herbs and candles and mysterious chants and malicious intentions. I am tempted to say there is no magic in it either, but, in fact, I think there may be almost more magic in it than in A Song of Ice and Fire. There are no dragons in The Accursed Kings. The Accursed Kings is historical fiction rather than fantasy. It's easy to see the parallels between the two series, although of course there isn’t an exact matchup of events or characters. Besides the three books in this set, there are another four books in the complete series, the last of which had not been translated into English at the time Martin wrote the introduction to the English translation. I had already put it on this year’s short list of books to actually attempt to read when I saw another mention of it in Ed West’s Iron, Fire, and Ice that implied somewhat the same thing.
Martin (the author of Game of Thrones) saying that this was the original Game of Thrones. I first bought The Accursed Kings Volumes 1-3 box set because it had a promotional blurb with a quote from George R.R.
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