A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Rating: ā 3/5
Date Read: 2014/08/16
Pages: 1060
3.5 stars, and Iām rounding down because I find the Ironborn so ridiculously boring that I started groaning every time I read the name Greyjoy. I mean, really, do all of these characters really need their own POV chapters? Iād rather find out about whatever it is theyāre doing by means of straight exposition.
(Seriously, if you havenāt read the first three, stop now. Spoilers, I canāt help it, because if I talk about people you will know theyāre not dead as of the beginning of book 4, and thatās something you donāt want to know),
Thereās some good stuff in here though: I always enjoy chapters from Sansaās point of view, and the Sansa/Brienne of Tarth plot is pretty interesting. Jon Snow isnāt really around, but we do get some cool stuff about Samwell, and Arya has gotten a lot more engaging now that sheās not mumbling about every single person sheās going to kill eventually. Shitās going down in Dorne and it seems pretty cool, but since itās cool itās confined to only a few chapters (seriously, GRRM, why? Who cares about Krakens and kingsmoots when
The problem with the book is that itās almost a thousand pages long and not that much happens. Itās somewhat maddening because the stage is clearly being set for something, we just never really get to it. Itās a little bit like watching a making-of featurette for an upcoming movie that you really, really want to see. And itās cool to see all the characters and hear them talk about stuff, but itās not particularly satisfying. I mean, the featurette mostly just reminds you that what you really want to see is the actual movie. In real life, you can skip the making of and just watch the damn thing, but A Feast for Crows isnāt exactly skippable. However, Iām still glad I slogged through the book. Now, bring on the dragons.