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A Knight's Watch
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Relationships: Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Melisandre of Asshai/Jon Snow, Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen
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Jon Snow is forbidden to take the black by his father. Instead he sent to squire for a famous knight, beginning a long arduous journey that causes him to cross paths which characters he never would have. Along the way he learns truths long hidden and discovers love in the most unlikely of places. All of this in the shadow of the War of Five Kings and the coming of the Others.
Relationships: Jon Snow/Sansa Stark, Melisandre of Asshai/Jon Snow, Lyanna Stark/Rhaegar Targaryen
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Jon Snow is forbidden to take the black by his father. Instead he sent to squire for a famous knight, beginning a long arduous journey that causes him to cross paths which characters he never would have. Along the way he learns truths long hidden and discovers love in the most unlikely of places. All of this in the shadow of the War of Five Kings and the coming of the Others.
- GenresFantasyFan Fiction
2711 pages, ebook
First published January 21, 2016
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August 2, 2022
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Outside of GRRM, the only other person I trust with stories about Westeros is DolorousEdditor, the only fan fiction writer I liked. They truly got GRRM's work in ways D&D and HBO never could. It's a shame they never finished most of their stories because they were just as good as the ASOIAF series. The only one they "finished" was "A Knight's Watch", about an alternate timeline where instead of going to the Night's Watch Jon Snow was sent south to squire for a Knight of the Vale. It takes a bit of time to get going (first few chapters are a speed run of major events of ASOIAF books 1-3 with Jon now present at important events) and the Jon x Sansa romance which takes too long to start/is a bit repetitive.
Other than that, I enjoyed seeing Jon come into his own and frankly be more tolerable than in the books/show. Both the battles Jon is in and the political games Sansa plays are exciting. I appreciated Edd's take on a number of characters like the Black Fish (whose love life is something I now consider headcanon) and Stannis (whose fall from grace is much better than the rushed and illogical version on the show). It made me appreciate minor characters in the main series I never dreamed I would (Patchface in particular), and D&D would never bother to do. The struggles that Jon, Sansa, Arya, and the rest of their allies go through is believable and at no time is it feeling like wish fulfillment, Edd once again does a better job than other fan fic writers whose work I've skimmed, showing that ASOIAF fan fiction should be as grim and unforgiving as GRRM wrote it to be.
Like all of DolourEdditor's work, we're never going to see how the story of this alternative timeline is resolved. Although the sequel will never manifest (although one always hopes Edd will be back), "A Knight's Watch" was at least brought to a satisfactory "end" for Jon's and Sansa's story at this point. While I still prefer "Our Choices Seal Our Fate", A Knight's Watch is still a fantastic bit of work that's worth reading (and rereading) during the long wait for The Winds of Winter.
Outside of GRRM, the only other person I trust with stories about Westeros is DolorousEdditor, the only fan fiction writer I liked. They truly got GRRM's work in ways D&D and HBO never could. It's a shame they never finished most of their stories because they were just as good as the ASOIAF series. The only one they "finished" was "A Knight's Watch", about an alternate timeline where instead of going to the Night's Watch Jon Snow was sent south to squire for a Knight of the Vale. It takes a bit of time to get going (first few chapters are a speed run of major events of ASOIAF books 1-3 with Jon now present at important events) and the Jon x Sansa romance which takes too long to start/is a bit repetitive.
Other than that, I enjoyed seeing Jon come into his own and frankly be more tolerable than in the books/show. Both the battles Jon is in and the political games Sansa plays are exciting. I appreciated Edd's take on a number of characters like the Black Fish (whose love life is something I now consider headcanon) and Stannis (whose fall from grace is much better than the rushed and illogical version on the show). It made me appreciate minor characters in the main series I never dreamed I would (Patchface in particular), and D&D would never bother to do. The struggles that Jon, Sansa, Arya, and the rest of their allies go through is believable and at no time is it feeling like wish fulfillment, Edd once again does a better job than other fan fic writers whose work I've skimmed, showing that ASOIAF fan fiction should be as grim and unforgiving as GRRM wrote it to be.
Like all of DolourEdditor's work, we're never going to see how the story of this alternative timeline is resolved. Although the sequel will never manifest (although one always hopes Edd will be back), "A Knight's Watch" was at least brought to a satisfactory "end" for Jon's and Sansa's story at this point. While I still prefer "Our Choices Seal Our Fate", A Knight's Watch is still a fantastic bit of work that's worth reading (and rereading) during the long wait for The Winds of Winter.
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