This was announced months ago in a news section on the front page. It's a story that quite literally already existed in the Dragon Age games as a (in-joke) parody of the events of the game and some of its characters. It was entirely available to read for FREE years before. But they suckered in a bunch of people to actually buy it (a second time, if that was not already apparent) in a super-thin hardcover with some 'okay' illustration work. It did not add anything definitively new to the story or the series at large, given its events are fictional... based in a fictional world... within a video game... *Inception BWAHHHH plays in background*.

^Yeah that's true, but I still want to get it and add it to my physical DA collection. Having Hard in Hightown that has Varric listed as the author sitting on my bookshelf is too good to pass up. ?

I'm currently half-way through the 3 books (Asunder) - this is on my shopping list (if only for the novelty of it).

I can also recommend the "Worlds of Thedas" Volume 1 & 2 - fantastic books and wonderfully detailed.