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A review by numinaluna
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
4.0
It's been two years and two television seasons since I read [b:A Storm of Swords|62291|A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)|George R.R. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1406378909s/62291.jpg|1164465], so I was a little fuzzy on where certain characters left off, and that left me confused for a good 200 pages before I really dug into this. For that reason, though, I am glad that this was the supposedly "slow" book in the series. I was able to get my bearings before anything really happened. (It still would have been good if something happened a little sooner.)
I apparently didn't write reviews for #2 or #3, either, so I'm really stumped for how to write one here. I do know that Brienne put me to sleep every time I tried to read, even when people were dying left and right around her. Jaime, as everyone assured me, gets better with time. I have always hated Cersei, and there is something grossly satisfying about watching her collapse into madness and failure. I definitely like Alayne better than Sansa, and reading that last statement from Littlefinger was a giant "Ah-ha!" and "Hm" all at once. (Still hating little lord Robin. Yuck.)
I want so much more from Arya/Cat of the Canals. She had such amazing potential, and I worry that she's going to grow up and be boring. I wanted to scream at her when she threw her things in the canal, but that might just be the hoarder gene in me. I wanted her to recognize Sam, at the very least, even if he didn't realize that he'd met ANOTHER Stark in hiding. Poor Sam. At least he got to live a little. There's a lot more for him to do, but I'm not sure how he'll do it (or survive) from Oldtown. Not with the ironborn around. (Also, WTF, Jon Snow?)
I did not care for Asha in previous books, but I was rooting for her in this one. I knew she wouldn't be queen, of course, but I had hoped she'd get a little more of a voice. I like the priest brother, and I have always been fascinated by GRRM's ability to invent so many religions with expansive, contradictory, and intertwining histories. Truly, the religion stories are my favorite part of these books, and almost none of that makes it into the TV series. Pity.
I felt like there should have been more from Sunspear, etc. Were there five chapters? If that? I guess I was expecting that new characters would get more attention, so we'd care about them more, maybe? It was obviously important to introduce them here, because Dany is going to have a LOT of visitors in the next story arc, but shouldn't there have been more? I'm not even sure I liked them enough to *want* more, but I wonder if I would have had clearer opinions with more "screen time." Hm.
Also, I do not care even a little bit about Lady Stoneheart/Catelyn Stark.
So, Tyrion, Dany, Jon Snow, and Bran are in the next one, right? Because I know I'm not alone in naming them as four of my Top 5 (I love Arya). I suppose I'll have to suffer through a shit-ton of Theon/Reek, too. Stannis? Or will he only be seen through Jon's eyes on the Wall? The Tyrells? Probably more new and minor characters to describe the action from more objective perspectives, right? Shouldn't they all be dying off soon? I'll jump in soon. I enjoyed being in Westeros, especially this August, but I need to go somewhere a little more familiar for a while. I'm thinking Buffy comics and Richard Castle novels for a few weeks...
I apparently didn't write reviews for #2 or #3, either, so I'm really stumped for how to write one here. I do know that Brienne put me to sleep every time I tried to read, even when people were dying left and right around her. Jaime, as everyone assured me, gets better with time. I have always hated Cersei, and there is something grossly satisfying about watching her collapse into madness and failure. I definitely like Alayne better than Sansa, and reading that last statement from Littlefinger was a giant "Ah-ha!" and "Hm" all at once. (Still hating little lord Robin. Yuck.)
I want so much more from Arya/Cat of the Canals. She had such amazing potential, and I worry that she's going to grow up and be boring. I wanted to scream at her when she threw her things in the canal, but that might just be the hoarder gene in me. I wanted her to recognize Sam, at the very least, even if he didn't realize that he'd met ANOTHER Stark in hiding. Poor Sam. At least he got to live a little. There's a lot more for him to do, but I'm not sure how he'll do it (or survive) from Oldtown. Not with the ironborn around. (Also, WTF, Jon Snow?)
I did not care for Asha in previous books, but I was rooting for her in this one. I knew she wouldn't be queen, of course, but I had hoped she'd get a little more of a voice. I like the priest brother, and I have always been fascinated by GRRM's ability to invent so many religions with expansive, contradictory, and intertwining histories. Truly, the religion stories are my favorite part of these books, and almost none of that makes it into the TV series. Pity.
I felt like there should have been more from Sunspear, etc. Were there five chapters? If that? I guess I was expecting that new characters would get more attention, so we'd care about them more, maybe? It was obviously important to introduce them here, because Dany is going to have a LOT of visitors in the next story arc, but shouldn't there have been more? I'm not even sure I liked them enough to *want* more, but I wonder if I would have had clearer opinions with more "screen time." Hm.
Also, I do not care even a little bit about Lady Stoneheart/Catelyn Stark.
So, Tyrion, Dany, Jon Snow, and Bran are in the next one, right? Because I know I'm not alone in naming them as four of my Top 5 (I love Arya). I suppose I'll have to suffer through a shit-ton of Theon/Reek, too. Stannis? Or will he only be seen through Jon's eyes on the Wall? The Tyrells? Probably more new and minor characters to describe the action from more objective perspectives, right? Shouldn't they all be dying off soon? I'll jump in soon. I enjoyed being in Westeros, especially this August, but I need to go somewhere a little more familiar for a while. I'm thinking Buffy comics and Richard Castle novels for a few weeks...