A Feast for Crows

Easily the weakest book of the series so far, still pretty damn good one.
Not having any chapters based on Tyrion, Jon and Danny was disappointing, but this book does try to put more light on other characters/region such as Brienne, Sam, Jaime and Dorne, which I enjoyed.
The slow downfall of Cersie and Arya's struggle with her identity was fun to witness.
I didn't really enjoy the Greyjoy power struggle storyline and Sansa's chapters were boring too. Won't shelve this one to my favourites.

This one felt like Westeros on Xanax—slower, sadder, and oddly obsessed with Brienne's trauma. I missed the heavy-hitters (Tyrion, Jon, Dany), and the tone was bleak from page one.

Cersei's spiral was a wild ride, and the side character glow-ups (hello, Grey Lady?) were a nice touch. But the constant threats of rape—especially aimed at Brienne—left a sour taste. Martin, buddy, we get it.

Important for the lore, but not my favorite serving of this saga.

While I enjoyed a lot in this book, it’s evident that we’re missing many key characters. The introduction of not only new POVs but new characters in general made this feel like a reset, and thus, a step back. I found myself disoriented more than I wanted to be, which made the pacing of this awfully slow for me. I still very much enjoyed a lot of this book — namely the chapters surrounding Jaime, Cersei, and Sansa; however, this was undoubtedly my least favorite in the series so far. There’s a part at the end explaining the stylistic choice GRRM made with this, and while I understand, it still dampened my experience.

Oh, George R.R. Martin even though I expect the worst of your books you still surprise me every time. I loved that this book lacked certain main characters because it gave us the chance of meeting smaller characters and they became so much interesting because of it. But that's something I hated too, the fact that those characters were missing and that's why I only gave it 4 stars. Overall, a very solid book that raised a lot of interesting new plots. Personally, the one I'm looking forward the most is about certain object found by Euron Greyjoy.

Slower than the other books with some less interesting characters, but still worth reading.

this took me so long to finish😭 loved brienne, sam, and sansa’s povs, i honestly skipped most of jaime’s pov bc i dont like him

I would give anything to see Game of Thrones season 5 remade with everything that actually happened in AFFC. Especially the Dorne plot. While the most unusual book of the series, it might just be the easiest to get into of the four thus far. I found myself getting easily sucked into the book every time I picked it up. Cersei and Sansa/Alayne chapters are my most favorite. Brienne chapters were so hard to read sometimes because she is such a genuinely good character I can't bear to see her suffer every time. I hope she finds Sansa or Arya soon.

Serinin dördüncü kitabı ve bence şimdiye kadar okuduklarım içinde en sönük olanı.. Bir önceki kitaptaki ardarda gelen şok edici ve sarsıcı gelişmeler bu kitapta yok; bir önceki kitapta yaşanan şok edici olayların etkileri bu kitapta sürüyor ancak yeni gelişmelere pek yer verilmemiş..Öyle okurken şaşkınlık yaşadığım sadece bir gelişme vardı, o da Mance Rayder'in oğlu ile ilgili olandı..Serinin bu kitabı öncekilerin aksine Demiradalar ve Dorne'daki gelişmelere odaklanmış. Yeni karakterlerle tanışıyoruz..Ama Dany, Jon, Stannis, Bran, Davos bu kitapta yok; yazar kitabın sonunda onlarla ilgili gelişmeleri "Ejderhaların Dansı"na sakladığını söylüyor. Sonuç olarak savaşın olmadığı ama iktidar mücadelelerinin devam ettiği; tansiyonun düştüğü ama ilginin kaybolmadığı bir kitap olmuş..

Entertaining, as expected.

This was the slowest of all of ASOIAF books. There are also less POV chapters and characters that I personally was interested me. Personally for me Cersie chapters were such a fun delight to read and that was what kept the motivation for me to keep reading. I loved Euron's introduction into the series. This book was still a struggle to read through, the slow pacing had me believing the plot wasn't moving at a rate that I was comfortable in reading. It was turning into a task for me to finish this Novel but the last 100 pages elevated it three stars.I feel like giving this book 3 stars is being harsh to my man, George Martin, but I'm trying to separate the truly great books in this series from the merely good ones. With all being said it ended on a very high note with an epic cliffhanger ending. Can't wait to get into the Last(I hope this doesn't turn out to be true, I need TWOW & ADOS) ASOIAF book that I have left on my shelf.

Not my favorite of the series so far.

My favorite part was all the autumnal vibes throughout, it was the perfect read for October. Still a great book though, and very excited for the next one.

DNF

Not the most exciting part of the series. I almost dosed off on this book, as it lacked action. But again, you still have to read this to get the context, back stories of the rest of the collection.

There's a lot of things going on in this book that I've been wanting to happen, but knowing the brutal candidness of Martin's writing, I wasn't entirely sure I was going to get those things. However, certain characters are getting their comeuppance, certain characters are redeeming themselves, and I'm starting to think that Robert Baratheon bred like an Olympian god. New characters introduced in this book were vibrant and engaging, for the most part, although honestly I think that the latter half of Arya's chapters were a bit dull. Aside from that, this was lovely, and while I can't wait to move on to Dance of Dragons, I'll be taking a bit of a break to read Jim Butcher's Ghost Story, mainly because I need a break and because a friend is borrowing Dnace of Dragons from me. :P

Most of it was interesting except Samwell and some Iron Island plot tbh Really liked Dorne and Cersei chapters. Will miss Sansa chapter (there's none in the next one I believe)

A Feast for Crows kicks off just after the war of the five kings, mainly centered in Kingslanding, the Iron Islands and the Riverlands, most of the important character are missing in this book yet the the ones are featured are interesting enough, A Feast for Crows is the weakest book in the series missing some of the elements that makes The Song of Ice and Fire great but it surely was enjoyable..

** spoiler alert ** First thing it was way more grotesque than the previous novels which was hard for the little beit Yaakov girl inside of me. Secondly the problem with a realistic war book is eventually the favorite characters will die leaving the reader unsure of what they’re still doing reading this book especially if it doesn’t feel like the book is going anywhere. I mean I understand that in real life there isn’t some ultimate plot and life consist of many small trials but….. this isn’t real life. This is a book. And I would appreciate if I felt like there was some direction to the story. Only at the very end did I realize there was anything to root for. I will say that George RR Martin as always wrote very compelling and intricate characters but that can be annoying when you’re reading only a single chapter and must learn about their way of thinking though you’ll never hear from them again. Oh and maybe I’m just an idiot but I didn’t really understand the “kingsmoot” or how in the world such a tiny place plan to conquer Westros. Anyway even though the book often felt pointless I was pleasantly surprised in the end how intentional every small interaction was (it doesn’t change the fact that it was difficult to get through) Notable mention: I got so deep into Cersi’s head that when Tommen started talking about what Margery said I got furious and only Cersi extreme reaction snapped me out of it enough to realize that Tommen was right. Brianne in the end what the heck she saved them why was she hanged and what did she say I need to know For someone who’s supposed to be so cunning the princess of Dorne is a huge disappointment. What did she hope to accomplish with her little rebellion

Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed this book and I liked the change of POVs, but I felt like it was such a step down from the previous book. I missed characters like Daenerys, Jon, Sansa, etc. It was just missing something that I loved. It was still good, but I wish it could've been more.

Tho i love the series, this book feels like a let down after the amazingness of book 3, tho there are still enjoyable story arcs in this addition they lack something important

Oh my godddd, I feel I've aged 5 years after every ASOIAF novel. I really enjoyed this one, outside of Cersei's chapters because I not only despise her, but reading anything from her POV is an absolute slog. Yes yes you're awful and want to secure your power as queen, I get it. 🙄 I fear I won't enjoy the next book as much because most of my favorite POVs are in this one, but fingers crossed. More than that, I fear this series won't ever be finished... GRRM please I beg of you.......

“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.” #1: A Game of Thrones ★★★★★ #2: A Clash of Kings ★★★★☆ #3: A Storm of Swords ★★★★★ #4: A Feast for Crows ★★★★★ Best book in the series ('till date). That's it. 1. We get to see how Cersei's mind works and it's both oddly terrifying and funnily embarrassing. She paved her own downfall and the ones that had a hand in it better start running. 2. JAIME "character development" LANNISTER. 3. Brienne is the only true knight around here. 4. I shit on the Greyjoys as much as the next person but Asha Greyjoy is the only bitch in that house that I ever respected. 5. My baby girl Arya is going to come for everyone who ever wronged her. Just watch. 6. Alayne Stone. Lies and Arbor Gold, that's all I'm going to say. 7. HOUSE NYMEROS MARTELL 8. Daenerys isn’t in it. 9. Tyrion isn't in it.

This book left me as awestruck as the first two. Perhaps the only reason why I docked a star was because of my reasons from AGOT and ACOK, and it sorta fell flat after ASOS. It was still good, though, but like the rest of the books, it had me throwing up my arms in the air every other page because of how much Tyrion gets the short end of the stick. Gah, he's gotten it so many times he probably has the short end of a forest. Catelyn...Catelyn...death still won't stop you from deciding stuff, eh? You do that a lot. Sometimes not for the better. Even after four books, I'm still on the fence about you. I guess that says something for multifaceted characters, then. I feel awful for Cersei and Tyrion in general, actually. Four books and still kickin' (which is saying something for the amount of characters that GRRM has killed off so far), but getting worse and worse. wherethefuckwasdaenerys?! Will continue my search for a cheap copy of ADWD.

Even though I liked this book, I think it was my least favorite of the Ice & Fire series. The story has gotten so complex and some of my favorite characters are MIA. A lot of new point-of-view characters are introduced, and while their perspectives on what's going on in areas we haven't visited before are interesting, I didn't care as much - until all of those story lines pointed to the east and what may happen in the next book. Looking forward to the next volume!