Books: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

I've vowed never to start reading A Song of Ice and Fire unless George R. R. Martin finishes it before he dies (which is looking increasingly unlikely), but I did pick up A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an anthology of the three previously published novellas in Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg series. 

Tales of Dunk and Egg predates A Song of Ice and Fire by 90 years, so it is not beholden to the crippling demands of continuity.  Freed of having to follow the thousands of pages in the main saga, Martin focuses the story on his two likable protagonists: Dunk, a lowly but honorable hedge knight scraping around for a living in the backwaters of Westeros, and Egg, his precocious but loyal young squire.  The stakes are small (the second novella is all about a dispute over riparian rights), but it's nice to root for some "good guys" in Martin's otherwise amoral universe.