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A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice & Fire)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #19951 in Books
- Published on: 2006-05-02
- Binding: Paperback
- 704 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
This is the long-awaited fourth installment of George R.R Martin's classic "A Song of Fire and Ice", continuing 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
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 ;)
Ok, so not AS fab as the rest but still.....
So this installment of the epic series isn't as great as the rest of them, but in the interests of keeping up with the story, you kind of need to read it!! Although a lot of the main characters seem completely ignored (Tyrion, Sansa, Daenarys etc) you still have plenty to read about and Arrys story is followed.
To be honest, I saw this book as more of a stepping stone from one main text across to another main text, which is a Dance of Dragons coming soon.
Still, you really do have to read it otherwise you'll miss key points and plots!
Amazingly intricate
This book is perhaps the best in the series; or, at least, it helps you to appreciate the series as a whole a lot more. More plotlines are revealed, and it is clear how incredibly complex and interwoven they are.
As the novel goes on, not only do we have the current plotlines running, the intricate politics of the aftermath, but we have even more 'flashbacks' and character development that fit in perfectly. The reader slowly starts to understand the deeper mysteries behind many of the characters, whilst still leaving so many things to keep you reading.
The story is obviously building up the tension, heightened by the profound absence of some of the main characters. Before we have been able to see things on a wider scale, but now we can only speculate. The book leaves a burning desire for more in a way that no other book has.
I cannot recommend this more.
