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A Feast for Crows

By George R.R. Martin

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| Hardcover | 9780002247436

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Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

A Feast for Crows

It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist--or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.

But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces--some familiar, others only just appearing--are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.

It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests--but only a few are the survivors.

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It's clearly one story in 5/+ books, so I'm holding off judgement until concluded, but I have to say this: Martin clearly knows/cares jack squat about structure and point of view relevancy.
I hope that Dance will stop adding to the list of people we don't really need to know about, but I know it's ... (continue)

It's clearly one story in 5/+ books, so I'm holding off judgement until concluded, but I have to say this: Martin clearly knows/cares jack squat about structure and point of view relevancy.
I hope that Dance will stop adding to the list of people we don't really need to know about, but I know it's just wishful thinking.
What baffles me is that he's got a core of interesting and strong characters everyone would love to read more about, so why waste pages and effort on utterly irrelevant stuff?

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Erialti said on Jul 12, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | 3 feedbacks

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While I love this particular series, my love of it doesn't contribute to my attitude that this is a very good read. George R.R. Martin garners all that on his own, simply through his ability to write phenomenal fiction. I guess what makes this book good and an adequate addition to the series is also ... (continue)

While I love this particular series, my love of it doesn't contribute to my attitude that this is a very good read. George R.R. Martin garners all that on his own, simply through his ability to write phenomenal fiction. I guess what makes this book good and an adequate addition to the series is also what aggravated me a little while reading it. The characters who tell the story in this installment are, for the most part, Martin's "B-Team", the less riveting/memorable folks who still mean just as much in terms of pushing the plot along, but don't hold the reader's attention quite so well. Martin has an amazing way of creating very human, flawed players in his tale, and this is something else that exasperated me at points while reading this book. While it's great and definitely necessary, the realism in each character's development and experiences is painful--Brienne's naivety, Cersei's narcissism, Sansa's empty-headed sense of duty, Asha's arrogance, the list goes on. At the same time that each character obviously displays individual weaknesses, it seems that the only truly strong female character he leaves at this point is Dany, who didn't even appear in this book. One might argue that Arianne Martell rivals the Mother of Dragons, but she seems too hot-headed--and perhaps hot-blooded--to fill those shoes. In a sense, it is almost her very womanliness that is her weakness--despite her ambition, she lets her sexiness and others' expectations of her as a high-born, attractive woman get in her way. Despite my slightly negative musings, this is a great book overall and it served one particular purpose better than all others--whetting my appetite for GRRM's next installment.

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Chezmerelda said on Jun 28, 2007 | Add your feedback

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Book 4 in the Song of Ice and Fire Series.

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Tif said on Mar 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Very exciting and intense book, develops many of the characters from the previous books, and will leave you eagerly awaiting the 5th instalment in the series.

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Colinferguson14 said on Jun 20, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A lot of POVs leads to a lot of cliffhangers:)

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Sense361 said on Jun 6, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

As the author himself admits at the end, this book is not complete, as a good half of the characters (those still alive, that is) do not appear here, but will in the next novel.
The problem is, after having killed so many interesting characters in the previous book, most of those that remain (groupe ... (continue)

As the author himself admits at the end, this book is not complete, as a good half of the characters (those still alive, that is) do not appear here, but will in the next novel.
The problem is, after having killed so many interesting characters in the previous book, most of those that remain (grouped all in A Feast for Crows, it would seem) are dull. Boring. Stupid to the absurd. As far from life as conceivably possible.
I wanted to kill myself every time I saw a new chapter titled SANSA. Or BRIENNE. What a boring torture...

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Mat F. said on Aug 14, 2010 | Add your feedback