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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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  • I read this whole book waiting for something to really catch my interest. I love many of the characters from previous books but this one didn't really do it for me. Then it ended just as I was finally getting into it. I'm hoping for a lot more from the next in the series.

    

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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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