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    A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

    By George R. R. Martin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 24, 2011
    ISBN9780007369218
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    A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
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    George R. R. Martin

    George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed ‘the American Tolkien’, George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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    Reviews for A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

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    • 4/5
      The saga continues:This book concentrates on the happenings at King's Landing, Dorne, and the Riverlands. Tommen is king but Cersei rules. Margaery Tyrell tries to undermine her. Jaime is waking up to what his sister really is thanks to Brienne and Tyrion. He is even looking inside himself. Lady Brienne is still on the search for the Stark girls. Meanwhile, Littlefinger controls Sansa (for her sake of coarse). And Arya across the sea learning all kinds of new skills. This book is great, just as exciting as expected. But I miss Jon Snow, Daenarys, the dragons, and Tyrion. I want to know what is going on with the others and white walkers. We are promised to catch up with them in the next book: A Dance with Dragons. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because of the missing characters.
    • 4/5
      (no explicit spoilers herein, but certainly broad ones, and discussion of the plot of previous books.)

      I read the first four books in Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" cycle over a three month period, and - as someone who had barely sampled fantasy before this - it was certainly an overwhelming experience! The first and third books were unrelenting in their ingenuity and entertainment, and the second book - although at times slightly slower than the others, due to its initial conception as the middle half of one book - was a worthy intermediary. I went into this, Book 4, aware that once I finished it I'd be waiting impatiently alongside the millions of other readers for the forthcoming Book 5 (thankfully, my wait turned out to be only nine months).

      "A Feast for Crows" suffers somewhat from its nature. Books 4 and 5 were originally one book, and that one book came out of an intended five-year-gap in the narrative, which Martin decided to tell. And it feels like it. Many of the storylines here - Brienne, Arya, Sansa, Samwell - feel like they could have been told in flashback without losing any of the important plot points (indeed, I'm not sure there are any important plot points in Brienne's tale this time around. And of the others, the tales of the Iron Islands and that of Jaime, seem again like marginal additions to the story. Only the events of Dorne and King's Landing (as told through the eyes of Cersei Lannister) propel the plot forward.

      Of course, that is talking at a basic level. On the other hand, Brienne's tale is in some ways the most expertly told: it is thoughtful and autumnal, one of many examinations of haunting post-war society that we see in these books. This feels like a meditation in the middle of the series, which is fine. The problem is - of course - that it had been five years since the previous book, and another six (hopefully!) until the next one, which itself will probably prove similar, since it is a companion piece. When you know that it will be a hundred or more pages until you see the next, say, Samwell chapter (and thus until you see everyone in his part of the world again), you hope that what you will get will be a worthwhile trip. And while very little happens in this book, it must be said that they continue to deepen the already rich texture of the world of Westeros. It's a pity that Martin found himself struggling to write the stories, as I expect these books would have been more well-received if they had come out on schedule.

      Anyway, there are many positives: the rises of some characters, and downfall of others, are appropriate and heart-stopping. As usual, Martin deftly describes the new locales - Dorne, Oldtown, Braavos - and further proves his mastery of rendering a whole world beyond belief. And the complexity of his plotting, particularly in the politics at King's Landing and the Eyrie, is brilliant. His characters and characterisations continue to defy the predictable, and he can still get the better of you with his mischievous surprises. I don't really want to comment on the 'surprise sex' nature of some of the chapters, but if Martin wanted to prove he was more than just a stereotype, maybe he should expand the same-sex intercourse beyond women. Apparently every woman in Westeros will give it up for another at some point in her life, but men are either exclusively straight or gay, and the gay ones (Loras Tyrell, for instance) don't get a point-of-view, or any lovin'.

      There are perhaps two major flaws in this book, and both - surprisingly - lie in Martin's literary style. His overwhelming descriptive passages, so appealing in previous books, sometimes come across as self-parody here. Entire pages abounding with descriptions of the banners of every single knight in the room is testing patience enough, I think. But now, characters themselves will do it. One character, for instance, has just been arrested and thrown into jail but - on seeing the first friendly face since her ordeal - takes the time to explain the colour and stylings of the dress she had ripped from her body!

      The other issue is that Martin seems to have discovered "medieval-speak" all of a sudden. When the words 'jape' and 'nuncle' started appearing, I thought perhaps it was a linguistic feature of the Iron Islands, which we had never explored in detail before. But suddenly, everyone was using it all the time. (I may be forgetful, but I swear Jaime Lannister has never called anyone 'nuncle' before in his life!) By the end of the book, everyone is 'japing' 'thrice' no matter where they live. At one point, Asha Greyjoy uses the phrase "half a groat". Fair enough. Then, in the next chapter, Cersei uses that phrase at least three times! My feeling is that this book may have been less proof-read than the previous, and it's not as if I'll stop reading the books on account of this, but these words felt like a textural detail that had been suddenly added to the world, and not for the better.

      So, I realise I've written a review worthy of Martin's verbosity itself. In closing, I can't really analyse this book until we see its companion piece, "A Dance with Dragons" sometime in (pretty please?) late 2011. It's mostly well-written, and continues to fascinate me. This is a world like no other imagined, and I can understand why it takes the author a long time to render it in glorious detail. But I do hope that once Martin starts on Book 6, getting back to the race-to-the-finish plotting, that he'll feel compelled to publish the books a little quicker. I very much desire to know what is to happen to the Starks, the Lannisters and the Targaryens, but I don't want to be in my dotage before it happens.
    • 2/5
      The thing that astonishes me, continually, is the fans who cannot see it and, in some cases, cannot even perceive that the quality has fallen off disastrously as he got mired in unimportant sub-plots. He reminds me of a story told by one my bosses I used to have a long time ago. This guy was head director. When I started working in that department I found none of the rest of the staff would speak to him because they had decided he was completely incompetent. He wasn't. He was good at certain things but not all the things he had to do (such as managing people) as head director. Work piled up and up and his desk was a vast pile of papers which stuff disappeared into. As the time went on things got worse and worse. He did almost nothing as far as running the Business Unit went. The rest of the staff organised it themselves, getting more and more pissed off with him as they did so, while he went off to conferences on Management and things like that. Things where he could play being head director but didn't actually have to do the work that needed doing. There's just no let up from those sorts of things Martin uses as plot devices. It's just bleak, dismal 'twist' after bleak, dismal 'twist' with no let-up or variation in tone. The book sometimes marginally works because in amongst the horrors there's humour, humanity and history (alliteration not intended). In the show it's just death, rape, death, death, rape, death. The people who adapted the show clearly just like the shocks and gore, and aren't really interested in anything else. My bet is that Jon Snow and the gang kill the night’s king but they get thrown back in time and become the last hero and his gang of Chums. They rig up a time machine and jump throughout history to fight evil and show off their nude parts.
    • 3/5
      Finally finished!
      While I didn't like it as well as the first three in the series, I pushed through the dull bits in hopes that there was some good stuff hidden somewhere, and there was. I am really hoping that getting back to my two favorite characters in the next book will be worth the wait of a thousand pages without them.
    • 4/5
      Oooooh boy. So this one took me awhile to get into again. I think a lot of people are big fans of how each book tends to start with this sort of long chapter that focuses on people we don’t know and won’t likely see again (or see much of any time soon). I … am not. I think in retrospect those chapters are an interesting way to set the tone of the book, but it also means that I’m going to really need to struggle to get through it to get to the characters that I know and love.

      Without getting into further detail on this, I have to say that while I don’t think book was as full of “HOLY SHIT” moments as book three, it still definitely has some very strong and shocking moments. I didn’t really realize it until the end, but Mr. Martin only tells the next chapters for about half of the well-known characters in this book. I won’t say which ones, but there’s a cute little note at the end, where he says that he could have either told half of everyone’s stories, or a book’s worth of half the stories, so the next one (book five, which thankfully is already out) should tell what was going on with the rest of the characters during this time.

      I think there’s definitely some good character development in this one, especially for one character (I won’t say which because given the propensity for people to get killed, it seems like mentioning that someone is still alive is now considered a spoiler), who I think Mr. Martin has done just a fabulous job with. I want to get started on the next book, especially before season five (plus I really want to go back and read Joanna Robinson’s spoiler posts from Pajiba), but at over 1000 pages I think I need to take a break before tackling that tome.
    • 4/5
      My least favorite of the books but I still liked it a lot.
    • 4/5
      So frustrating... some parts were the thrilling and exciting GoT I recall while others were drab and painful. I'm excited to get some of the characters I've been missing back on book 5 and see where it takes me
    • 5/5
      The epic story continues. Every time the point of view changed I couldn't wait to find out what happens next.I didn't like some of the voices the narrator used for the women.
    • 5/5
      I just finished the fourth book of the epic Fire and Ice series and I was both pleased and a tad disappointed with the book. While my review will not be unique or revolutionary and will sound similar to many othe reviews, I plod ahead...

      The writing and the world building of this series are still outstanding. It is fun to read and the characters are all unique and well flushed out. I liked some of the new characters in this book, and will not complain that the story did not move forward as much as the first three books. My bigger complaint is not that the overarching story didn't move forward, it is that the story within the book never left me wanting more. In the first three books, when a chapter ended for a character, it took everything in me to not flip ahead to find the next chapter for that character to find out what happened next. I don't think that happened a single time in this book. The cliffhangers did not really stick with me until the final few chapters, and for that reason I would probably rate this book more of a 4.5/5.

      I am looking forward to the fifth book, especially because the characters I am most interested in will be in that book. Still one of my favorite series of all time.
    • 4/5
      Slower pace, and no bomb shells like Storm of Swords. It feels like Martin is setting up for book 6 (this book is concurrent with book 5) with all the political manoeuvring and skirmishes. Cersei's delusions and overconfidence were probably the most entertaining for me, though Brienne's adventure has its moments.
    • 5/5
      this one was a bit slow compared to the previous one and i could definitely feel the absence of certain characters, but it was necessary to the series.
    • 3/5
      Not a big fan of this one, since he broke it up geographically because he had to (so he claims, I think he could have done it differently), so as a result there's no Daenerys, no Jon, no Tyrion. My response? ZZZZZ. Lots of Cersei (blarg), Jaime, Brienne, Arya (Arya's okay, I like her), and Sansa. Sansa is stuck in the Eyrie with Littlefinger, pretending to be his bastard daughter and an impostor posing as Arya Stark is married to Ramsay Bolton. Cersei had the brilliant idea of arming the Sparrows, which is going to come back to bite her in spectacular fashion (I love that part). Brienne meets Gendry and realizes right away he's a Baratheon. Instead of going to Dorne, like he did on the show, Jaime is at Riverrun, dealing with the siege there, and the Blackfish escapes.
    • 4/5
      This series just gets more WOW!, more OMG!, and more WTF! as it goes on.

      I read books 1-4 one after the other because I was so soaked into the story that I didn't want to leave. This one beat the rest for those HOLY COW moments and I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THAT.

      I think I audibly gasped about a dozen times throughout this book and did a very loud OH MY GOD when I was reading this in hospital. But I loved it all the same.
    • 4/5
      This one takes a step back from the previous three in this saga. Martin claims in the back of this novel that he had written so much material for this book that he had to divide it into two novels, the other being my future read, A Dance With Dragons. However, Martin took half the characters and wrote about them in this book, the other half being covered in the upcoming ADWD.That made this read tougher. While reading about the characters in this novel, I was continually wondering what was going on with the other half. My concern is this saga is now bloating to the point where it is approaching Wheel Of Time glut. In Wheel Of Time novels, you may read about a character in book 3, then pick up his/her story in book 9. Maddening....That being said, I am looking forward to the next book. Hopefully, at that point I will be ready to tackle the sixth book, if he ever releases it.There were parts of this book that were enjoyable to read, just not on the scale of the previous books. This one seemed more concerned with establishing political alliances among the seven kingdoms and familial lineage where inheritances were concerned. Important, yes, but page after page of dozens and dozens of potential characters in line for a throne or a lordship produced heavy eyes at times. Here's to hoping that things pick back up soon...
    • 3/5
      A bit slower. Less action. More people. Sometimes confusing. But in the end lots of cliffhangers.
    • 4/5
      A downgrade from 3, mainly because of those dreadful parts to do with Dorne. The beginning is so god-awful I almost gave up reading.The nasty stuff with Cersei and Qyburn comes to the plot's rescue, and saves Cersei's character from being the total disappointing drag that it had previously been.The refreshingly linear sideplot with Brienne is perhaps one of my favorite aspects of the series so far. Martin writes in a classically romantic style in a very believable and earnest way.No Tyrion, unfortunately, but that dullard Davos was nowhere to be found. I was happy with the trade.Martin is getting painfully lazy with his descriptions of sunlight slanting through windows, etc. Hope he adds a little more panache for the 5th.
    • 5/5
      "Feast For Crows" has been one of my favorite of the series. Im not sure why. It may be that Martin has given the books a certain pattern so that each book does not contain to much information,so Not finished yet.
    • 5/5
      Still one of the best series ever written. I'm sad to start the next one because I don't want to have to wait for the next book!!!
    • 4/5
      Found this one a bit more dragged out than the others... in fact I almost gave up half way through .. went away to read other things.. and then came back to it. I started again from the beginning and persevered.. and finally got to the end where George aplogieses to the Reader!! LOL.. and so he should, I reckon. Still a good read and the four stars is more an appreciation for the previous books and an expectation of the next one :)
    • 4/5
      Not Martin's best, but still better than most. I understand why he chose to focus only on half the characters, but a Song of Ice and Fire book without Tyrion just doesn't feel right. I'm hoping the story as a whole will sit better for me once I finish the next one.
    • 3/5
      I found myself almost entirely skipping some chapters on characters i did not care for. In hopes of quickly getting to the main characters which i very much am interested in.
    • 5/5
      Another book to love. It's so easy to crawl into the skin of the characters, even though some I like more than others - obviously; doesn't everybody? I can't wait to read the next one!
    • 5/5
      Easily as good as the first three.
    • 3/5
      Lots of words.
    • 5/5
      Simply great
    • 4/5
      George RR Martin regals us with the forth verse of A Song of Ice and Fire. The way the characters interact with each other is only bested by the way you find yourself wondering f you are reading a fantasy novel or a mystery one. In his Universe, evil and good are foreign concepts. People are people, with sins and virtues, and, while some characters are openly ambitious and would be seen as villains, you understand where they come from and, why not? sometimes hope they get away.As a non-native English speaker, the prose full of words that escape common use is a welcome change, and a demonstration of the complexity and value of the English language as a literacy juggernaut.
    • 3/5
      Somewhat disappointing in the end, mitigated by Martin's apology and explanation that this was one very long book that he decided to break into two ("the full story of half the characters" in each)...
    • 4/5
      Not as great as the others. Still good though. It was disappointing to find out why we didn't see too much of Dany, Jon, and Tyrion.
    • 4/5
      This book literally took me forever to read because it started off really, really weak. I put it down and then didn't pick up very many books for a good while. But then I finished another book I had been trying to finish for a long while and suddenly became determined to finish this one as well.

      The beginning of the story was somewhat confusing as the author introduced a host of new people that had crap all to do with the rest of the story (as far as I was concerned). Once I picked it back up, I forced myself through a few chapters before pausing again. Eventually--I'm not exactly sure when--I hit a chapter that seemed closer to the pervious books and it got me genuinely interested rather than determined for principle's sake.

      This book got good a quarter or third of the way in. Half way through, it got really good. Three quarters in and I couldn't put it down!

      The author truly redeemed himself once I got past the boring/confusing first chapters of the book, which is why I gave it four stars.

      So much betrayal and intrigue and finally we see some people beginning to get what they deserve!! I'm even starting to like Jamie Lannister! This game of thrones is just starting to heat up and is far from being over. I cannot wait to see what happens in the next book!!
    • 2/5
      This is probably the worst book in the series up to this point. The pace is overwhelmingly slow, in a good 80% of the book. It's so highly political, with very little magic, if any at all, that it's an exceptional bore. The very first part of the book starts strong introducing you to the Drowned Prophet, the Four Shields and the Greyjoys. Then it gets slow, only to peak with the Greyjoys in the middle of the book, then slows down to cold molasses on a winter day with Cersei and Sansa/Alayne. It ends strong, for sure. The last 8 chapters really bring a lot of the story to good points, but overall, this book is a struggle to get through.

      Even worse, knowing that now I get to read "A Dance with Dragons", and start off with book 5 where book 3 left off, means I'm not looking forward to this next book. GRRM really is not a good author. This series is a serious struggle to get through. There are several problems with this story:

      * It's not clean, morally or ethically. There is a lot of rape, child sex, and incest. I don't care if "that is what it was like back then". I don't want to read about it.
      * Martin throws around characters like they're going out of style. Every chapter, it seems, some character or family name is mentioned. It's hard to stay on top of.
      * The momentum is amazingly slow for very long stretches of time, to the point of boredom. Then, jarringly enough, it picks up quickly, only to slow down fantastically slowly again.
      * It's very stereotypical fantasy. There really isn't anything unique magic-wise.
      * Characters can go several chapters before being discussed again, while other characters are discussed frequently.
      * The prologue is never flushed out in the story, which is just strange to me.

      And now with this book:

      * I am looking for a maid of three-and-ten with blue eyes and auburn hair. Ugh.

      Even though those are my negative reviews of the book, there are some saving graces:

      * Imagery is fantastic. There is no doubt in my mind as to what people or things look like.
      * It's a political story firstly, magic second. However, the magic isn't neglected, and it's slowly introduced through the story, enough to keep you reading.
      * There really isn't any "good vs evil" story. Everyone has their own agenda, good or ill. So in that case, it's very much NOT a stereotypical fantasy.

      The only reason I'm reading the series, is because the HBO series seems to be doing so well. Even though I haven't seen any of the episodes, I'm interested in what HBO sees in the story. After reading the series in full, I'll checkout HBO's interpretation.