Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1652 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 976 pages

Synopsis
This work continues the most ambitious and imaginative epic fantasy since "The Lord of the Rings". Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. But fear and deceit are in the air: their enemies are poised to strike. The Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead, and the heir of King Balon of the Iron Isles, Euron Crow's Eye, is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail. Across the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms, Brienne the Beauty (thus named in mockery of her great size and strength) seeks for Sansa Stark, having vowed to protect Sansa from the wrath of Queen Cersei, Tommen's power-hungry mother. Meanwhile apprentice Maester, Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms south to the Citadel from the cruel frozen north where the sinister Others threaten the Wall! "A Feast for Crows" brings to life dark magic, complex political intrigue and horrific bloodshed. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.

Customer Reviews

An unexciting genre-exercise
Epic travel medieval fantasy. It's pretty well written epic travel medieval fantasy with lots of overlapping plots and characters and whatnot, but it's boring and full of irritating characters that I don't care enough about to cheer on or worry about when things happen to them. Perhaps Martin's choice to split this book in two and only talk about half the characters (who happen to be the boring half) was the problem, but this sort of fantasy really doesn't appeal. Try something from Erikson or K. J. Parker if you're looking for something original.

disappointing & disjointed
I am a newcomer to this series , but have read and loved every single book in it over the course of a month...until this one. Perhaps if i had waited months or years for it my view would be more gentle, but reading it in quick succession with the earlier (and far more coherant) books it does suffer by comparison.

Of course it still needs to be read if you want to finish the series, but the decision he made to split the book into 2 and tell half the characters in 1 and half in the other just doesn't really work, he would have done better, in my opinion, to do as he did with the 3rd book in the series and split it chronologically instead.

it doesn't help that it's the less interesting half of the story in this book, or that there feels like a fair bit of padding out (for example, Brienne's story feels like it could have been edited down and large amounts of the story in Dorne feel a bit dry if you pardon the pun)

i still read the book through and will read the next one which i hope is a return to form, it was just harder work than the others and it feels a little as tho he is losing his way under the weight of his ambition to tell the best story ever, which would be a real shame!

so read it, but keep your fingers crossed for the next installment and a return to high standards!

Good, not that great.
I'm a newcomer to the series as was hooked after he first few chapters of 'a game of thrones' Very enjoyable books up until 'A Feast For Crows' where, after the blood bath that was blood and gold we seem to have hit the breaks hard!

Due to the way this series has been written this short review wont really apply to everyone but if your favorite characters are: Jon Snow, Dany, Tyrion and everyone else not in Kings landing your going to go away from this book feeling a little let down.

I found it hard to get into, there wasn't much exciting ever really happening the only parts i enjoyed where the Arya parts but they where few and far between, with alot of the story focusing on a game of hide and seek only you know where the person is hiding and the seeker doesn't. Becomes a little annoying after a while. The rest focuses on court politics which I find drags on, and on, and on!

This book won't appeal to everyone but the joy of being inside Martin's world is well worth the price (Like your going to stop reading this far into the series though) It leaves you wanting more. but not more of this book, more of what we enjoy and found in the previous books.

If you are going to buy this book now i would recommend not reading it until just before 'A Dance with Dragons' comes out if you read it before your going to die waiting to hear some news from the wall.

hoped this helped although this is a spur of the momment/review so if it sucks, cut me some slack ;)