A Feast for Crows

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!

** spoiler alert ** After the excitement that built for three books, this installment was a real disappointment. I try to go into these books as uninformed as possible, so after 300 pages I was like alright where are the main protagonists of this series. It really annoys me that GRRM left a note after the final page explaining that the rest of the characters would be explored in ADWD. That note should have been at the beginning of the book. I like all of the characters we get POVs for, but honestly this book did them a disservice, especially Brienne. I groaned every time I realized we were going to be subjected to yet another chapter of Brienne roaming around achieving nothing. Seriously, it felt like every other chapter was a Brienne chapter, and she didn't accomplish anything interesting until the very end. I liked the Sand Snakes, though we didn't see much of them in the latter half. The most essential part of the book was probably the breakdown of Jaime and Cersei's relationship. The tone was rather depressing and dragging throughout, making the book quite a slog. I love Sam so much, but his whole thing was a bummer. What's going on with Aria is interesting and makes a lot of sense with her pattern of assuming new identities and shedding old ones, so though she's super disconnected from the rest of the story (and where is Jaqen H'ghar?!) I'm excited to see what happens with her (but worried nothing will since I don't know if she'll be touched upon in ADWD). The end of the book recaptured what I love about this series. Massive changes to power and status occurred just when you thought things were settled. Cersei's fall from grace was cathartic because it made all her boring bumbling and political moves that made the experience of reading the book boring actually consequential. Brienne's ambiguous ending is worrying because who knows if we'll ever hear about her again. I can't believe Jaime! I also couldn't believe the final sentence of the book only makes sense if you recall what happened in the standalone prologue from 600 pages before. I mean, I know we all looked back and skimmed the prologue once Sam was in the Citadel, but still! There was an outrageously scarce amount of action in this book. A great number of chapters were devoted to the droll and tedious political dealings of characters we get the extensive biographies GRRM is famous for, but do little to excite me. (I would include Alayne's chapters in this. Yawwwn. I hope someday she can escape the abuses of powerful men.) I wish the pace of the end of the book was maintained throughout. I have high hopes for ADWD because we'll get to see the actual players of this series: Tyrion, Daenerys, Jon, hopefully Bran. It was an insane and shocking move to remove all these vital characters from AFFC, to the point that I cannot believe his editors allowed it. I'm glad I'm reading this series today, because if I had been hotly anticipated its publication back when it was originally released and then had to wait even longer for ADWD, I don't know if I would have made it through.

Well, it took me 2 years to start and finish it. Not the best one, but still has that GRRM's magic. Not eager to read the fifth, but it will be read. I'm sure of it.