adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Extremely violent. Too many deaths per chapter. Lands are devastated by wars, but there are no victims of contagious diseases (?). 
adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

Incredible series & I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the final 2 books!
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Having seen a lot of reviews declaring this book the ‘black sheep’ of the series I was reluctant to dive into this book. However, this may be one of the better ones in my opinion. I can totally see why people dislike this one more than the others if you don’t like the sections in Kings Landing or the less popular characters. Through the series these have been my favourite scenarios and a whole book with no Bran was a breath of fresh air. This made me not want to pick up the next one as I know I’m going to have to read my least favourite parts.

I didn't remember much about A Feast for Crows from my first reading except a vague recollection that that was when the series started to feel like it was king of plodding along. I liked the book overall much better this time around, and I like the arcs for all the main characters.

All that said, at about the two-thirds mark I did realize that with the exception of some chapters towards the beginning, basically none of the main characters ever interact with other main characters. They're all off on their own disconnected journeys, and as interesting as those journeys are, it still reads almost as an anthology rather than one interwoven narrative.

George R.R. Martin succeeds yet again to blow my mind.