A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin see larger photo List Price: $28.00 Our Price: $18.48 Released 08 November, 2005 Hardcover Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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Hideous child of an awesome series.
3/5 Stars
This book kind of sucked. I hope that Martin still has something left because at this point he is ending books in a soap operatic fashion with crappy unfinished endings that leave the reader (watcher) on the edge of the couch. It is gimicky and reflects weak or unsure plot development and writing. Maybe he just wanted to stretch to more books for more money? I think it is pretty pathetic. Everyone was worried about him running down Jordan's path but it seems he found out how to turn something awesomely rich in detail, depth, action, and complexity into something complexly rich in putrescent useless filth. Anytime an author has to end or start a book with an explanation of why it does not deliver what is expected or wanted beware for the fountain pen tapping the cesspool (i.e.Dark Tower Series).

Still entertaining writing and some surprises, but is it still surprising when the formula is: something or someone is good = almost certain death and destruction. Evil, cheating, lying = success! (yea)

The formula is annoying when any gloriously huge pile of goodness is thwarted by a very simple monstrous act of evil. I know this is more realistic than most fantasy but how far does he need to stack the deck before the gloriously just? Daenyrys comes in to save the 7 Kingdoms?

All my complaining without, I will ravenously devour each book he puts out , regardless how annoyingly he hooks me to read them. Complex characters, hidden secrets, and mostly rational action blah blah blah. So Martin has what most fantasy severly lacks.

Everyone who has gotten this far has their own opinion and my drunken rantings will not change anything. But this was a 600 page book that could very likely just be skipped in the series. A voracious reader such as myself could not possible skip this book but if you are a casual reader and don't like Jordan's drawn out detail you can probably get away without reading this book at all. 600 pages of transition is a bit much.

Martin thrives on having his characters do exaclty what the reader does not want them to do. Maybe he can actually produce another book, another piece to the story, without intentionally antogonizing the reader into reading more. It is hard to believe that the story presented to us is exactly what he wanted to write. Unless he naturally writes medieval fantasy identical to the writers of the crummy TV show Lost.

I might actually give this a 2.5.

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