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A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

17 reviews

ten_telegrams's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, War, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual content, and Torture

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Incest, Miscarriage, and Slavery

linnylionheart's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Cursing, Torture, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Gore, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, War, Abortion, Body shaming, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Child death, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Slavery

renikajw's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Slavery, Torture, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, and War

ok7a's review

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Incest, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

ninjasunknown's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

readingwithkelso's review

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book was my least favorite of the Song of Ice and Fire series. There were no chapters set in the north, which was a huge disappointment. However, I did enjoy Arya and Sansa’s storylines. I wish we had seen more of them in this book. 

Most of the action happened in the last third of the book. It is a VERY SLOW BURN. I felt like the story could have been much shorter

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Death, Violence, Torture, Misogyny, Incest, and Death of parent

booksnbarristers's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD. AS WELL AS COMMENTARY ON THE TELEVISION SERIES.
FAIR WARNING.

A Feast for Crows follows some of the least likable characters in the entire series, i.e. Cersei and the Greyjoys. Jamie continues his character development, and we get a good round backstory on Brienne. But Feast of Crows does feel at points like a filler for the series, rounding out some of the finer points of GRRM's world building, especially in places we rarely saw but heard of in the first 3 books: Dorne and Oldtown, of note.

Speaking of Dorne, this was the best part of the book. In the TV show, Dorne's involvement in the politics of the Seven Kingdoms is pretty much eliminated. Adding the Martell family and the true power they wielded as one of the Seven Kingdoms and putting the Martell family on equal footing as the other liege lord families (Lannister, Stark, Tully, Arryn, Baratheon, Tyrell) adds another chess piece to the board that is the Game of Thrones.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Incest, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Sexual content