A Feast for Crows
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Written by George R.R. Martin.
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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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Za thinks this book is Good.
I enjoyed this book as I've enjoyed everything else so far in A Song of Ice and Fire, but I couldn't quite get completely absorbed in it. GRRM narrates the stories of only half the characters of the series in this fourth instalment -- the stories of the remaining half have been reserved for the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, due to have been released in 2006 but not yet out. His writing style is engaging and the twists and turns the tale takes continue to be tantalising, but there were definitely gaping holes in the narrative because so many characters were just... missing from the plot. While there are pages and pages on Sam, Cersei, Jaime, Brienne, I really missed Tyrion and Jon Snow and the Onion Knight, to name a few. I can't say I approve of the idea of splitting the stories. Nevertheless, anyone who enjoys this series will have to read this book to keep up with what's happening, and it's not a bad read at all.