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

by George R.R. Martin

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.
 
Here is the fourth book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece in the making.

A FEAST FOR CROWS
 
After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. But it’s not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. Now, 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—emerge from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges of the terrible times ahead. Nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages, are coming together to stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.
 
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

• ISBN10: 055358202X
• ISBN13: 9780553582024
• Publish Date: 26 September 2006 (first published 1 January 2005)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
• Imprint: Bantam USA
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 1104
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780553582024

Reviews

[KitsuneBae]

Ahm, there were a lot of good things here but then the whole book was just too tedious. New boring POVs were suddenly added and they could have been tolerable to read if they weren't ~10 pages long. And Martin's habit in listing all mundane stuff is really annoying (I didn't mind the list from books 1-2 then books 3 to 4 still have the fucking lists so it got really annoying). They were served a platter of shit, ten goblets of shit, bowls of stewed shit... you get the idea... Or he could see that the walls were adorned with heads of shit, seven tails of shit, horns of shit that can only be found in shit... Or the list of the fucking banners. The hell?!

[mitabird]

3.5 stars

[boghunden]

Brienne ♥

[clq]

It took me quite a long time to read Feast for Crows. At first I blamed myself for not making enough time for it, but after a while I started blaming the book, and I think I have some right to do so.
Sure, it is fairly entertaining, the story is solid, and a lot of things happen. The problem is that, for a bit too much of the book, these things happen to people I don't really care about. I'm sure I'll start caring more about these people as the story progresses, but for now it failed to captivate me. It held my interest, but not in a way which made me want to pick up the book instead of doing something else.
Yes, there are also stories about characters I care more about, and yes, many of them were very good, but they felt few and far between. The book lacked what I liked so much about A Game of Thrones: In GoT the narrative skipped swiftly between characters and places, but I always felt like I was reading exactly what I wanted to read about. With Feast for Crows I felt like I was being told to read a story rather than being told a story. It's probably my fault. Perhaps I didn't invest enough in getting immersed, and perhaps my returns were diminished because of it. I'm still blaming the book for that.

However, I love the story, and I'm very much looking forward to the rest of it. I just feel that Feast for Crows didn't tell it as well as it could, and perhaps should, have done.

[layawaydragon]

Warnings: Trigger Warning for rape threats and rapes, which are common among the series.Very common, and it gets a bit more disturbing in this book as point of view character is threatened and almost raped half a dozen times (if not more).

The series is long and often long winded with facts repeated. But considering the scale of the story and the length between publishing, it's understandable and I would think helpful for those reading this as it came out. Hell, I'm reading it straight through one after the other and find it helpful to keep everyone and their great-great-grand mother straight. It does get difficult to remember. I'm sure I will go to read the wiki on this book to find a hundred little things I missed or forgotten, even though I just put the book down.


This book does not feel like a complete book. A very WTF moment when it ended. Not surprising since Martin had to chop it in half due to the complete book being too long. It does help that Martin explains this in the afterword.

The scale and cast of point of view characters is growing. I hope Martin can keep it all together in the next books as well as he has. It does get frustrating wondering what the hell as been happening with some characters. I can't even imagine how it must have felt for people waiting for these books to be published.

I couldn't put this book down. I was more engaged in some passages than other due to not liking the POV character. However, it wasn't unpleasant and wanted to know them more, or at least what's going on.
I eagerly devoured this entire series. I went in looking for answers to some questions but only found more questions. It's like wanting desert after the main course only to have more horse put in front of you. I want the sweet ending. Give me the lemon cakes already Martin you greedy fuck. I want to know what happens to my people!
{sigh}

[neddieb]

Awesome!!!! Can't wait for a A Dance with Dragons