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A review by rrrebekahmay
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
3.0
This one was probably my least favourite so far, but still really good. After all of the action of A Storm of Swords this one didn't quite live up to my expectations. Martin says at the end that he felt it was better to tell the full story for half of the characters than to half the story of all of the characters but in some way I wish he had done the latter.
A Feast for Crows follows mainly Brienne, Cersei and Jaime, but also Arya and Sansa, with little bits of Arianne Martell and other people in Dorne, and Victarion and other members of the Greyjoy family on the Iron Islands. I really enjoyed seeing Jaime's development and how he's changed and grown into a much better person, even if he still has his flaws. Cersei is surprisingly immature, for all she's managed to get away with throughout the series. Arya is still a little girl, which I keep forgetting but she's been through so much and she's a survivor. Sansa is one of my favourite characters and I loved reading her chapters, I'm only sad there wasn't more of them (three is not enough, I'll be mad if I have to wait until Winds of Winter for the next one). It's so weird to see her starting to lose herself in Alayne because of Petyr Bealish, interesting and sad at the same time. I really liked Arianne and Victarion, the Greyjoys were actually surprisingly enjoyable to read about.
And then there was Brienne. Seven Hells. I didn't hate all of three of her chapters, and there are eight of them, and even then only one of those three I actually enjoyed, I liked Meribald's story about the soldiers.
At points this was a real slog to get through. Martin says in his acknowledgements, 'This one was a bitch.' and it was. I usually devour these books, I've read longer ASOIAF installments in half the time. In the end, I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it. It was ok. I'm glad I read it when I could move straight onto A Dance with Dragons though, if not I'm not sure it would have been worth the effort. I almost started skipping certain chapters, in all honesty. But whatever, I did it, and I'm glad to finally be moving on with the series.
A Feast for Crows follows mainly Brienne, Cersei and Jaime, but also Arya and Sansa, with little bits of Arianne Martell and other people in Dorne, and Victarion and other members of the Greyjoy family on the Iron Islands. I really enjoyed seeing Jaime's development and how he's changed and grown into a much better person, even if he still has his flaws. Cersei is surprisingly immature, for all she's managed to get away with throughout the series. Arya is still a little girl, which I keep forgetting but she's been through so much and she's a survivor. Sansa is one of my favourite characters and I loved reading her chapters, I'm only sad there wasn't more of them (three is not enough, I'll be mad if I have to wait until Winds of Winter for the next one). It's so weird to see her starting to lose herself in Alayne because of Petyr Bealish, interesting and sad at the same time. I really liked Arianne and Victarion, the Greyjoys were actually surprisingly enjoyable to read about.
And then there was Brienne. Seven Hells. I didn't hate all of three of her chapters, and there are eight of them, and even then only one of those three I actually enjoyed, I liked Meribald's story about the soldiers.
At points this was a real slog to get through. Martin says in his acknowledgements, 'This one was a bitch.' and it was. I usually devour these books, I've read longer ASOIAF installments in half the time. In the end, I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it. It was ok. I'm glad I read it when I could move straight onto A Dance with Dragons though, if not I'm not sure it would have been worth the effort. I almost started skipping certain chapters, in all honesty. But whatever, I did it, and I'm glad to finally be moving on with the series.