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Jul 12, 2011

Joel rated it:

A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. A highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair. (A highborn maid of thre More...

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Jan 31, 2010

Kelly rated it:

Dear George,

How do you do this lovely May morning? I'm terribly sorry to bother you, but I really did think that I must in good conscience warn you of this problem I have. You see, I know many people who read these books and absolutely adore them. Legions of fans. I'm sure you know that. Really, the books are quite high quality and quite enjoyable and whatever you need to do to get them to stay at that quality, please do it.

... within reason. It has come to our (the masse More...

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Sep 24, 2011

mark rated it:

Behold: the Ugly Stepchild of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Behold: the Readers of A Feast for Crows: angry, sullen, vengeful.

silly readers! i'm not sure i've ever read such a collection of resentful reviews for one book. one reviewer just decided to repeat the same phrase over and over and over again (sorry Joel, had to say it). another decided to note that "...kids are inherently boring. Kids aren’t clever..." er, wtf?

sigh. i suppose i can understand the bac More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Becky rated it:

This book was fantastic.

These books are so amazingly good. I love them. I can't wait until after I read A Dance with Dragons. Then I can join the hordes of people standing outside GRRM's house, looking at their watches and tapping their feet impatiently while they wait for the 6th book in the series. I haven't experienced that wait yet. I will be one of you soon... Squeee!

Anyway... so, A Feast for Crows. I was talking about the awesomeness. So here are some things, in r More...

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Jul 26, 2011

Matt rated it:

The context here is everything.

A Song of Ice and Fire began with the publication of A Game of Thrones in 1996. Thrones introduced us to the land of Westeros, a continent the size of South America but suspiciously similar to medieval England. We followed a handful of characters representing various factions of the Seven Kingdoms, squabbling for the right to sit upon the Iron Throne. Its grittiness, tactility, fully-realized characters, and high stakes (a major character loses a head) More...

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Aug 20, 2008

Justin rated it:

I'm not quite sure what happened, here.

As others have mentioned, Martin slows the pace of the story down considerably in this fourth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire, ostensibly writing this as the first half of a two-book volume, with a 3-5 year production time on each. As such, the book is by necessity filled with unresolved storylines, AWOL main characters, and lengthy travelogues where nothing of importance happens. Of course, this draws the inevitable comparisons to another More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Guy rated it:

Simply put, the entire Song of Ice and Fire series is my favorite (topping even my beloved Gaiman). I fell in love with the series and I obsess about it in the way that some people obsess about Tolkein or Harry Potter.

In my mind, it's the best epic fantasy since Tolkein. Like Tolkein, Martin creates a real world with an extensive history filled with its own languages and cultures and songs. Tolkein's world is high fantasy with elves and magic and even the main characters aren't huma More...

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May 21, 2011

Melissa rated it:

George R. R. Martin's A Feast for Crows (of the Song of Fire and Ice series) suffers from MBSS, or Middle Book in a Series Syndrome. It lacks the addictive excitement and intrigue necessary for early books and the catastrophes and closures I'm looking forward to from later books. It's just a link in the chain. My initial response to it reminds me of my initial response to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I trust in the vision of the author and am certain the book is More...

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Mar 31, 2008

Ryan rated it:

I was fully prepared to be disappointed by this book, for several reasons. First of all, the last book, A Storm Of Swords, ended with a very large cliffhanger and I knew that it was a cliffhanger that wasn't going to be fully explained/explored in this volume.

Additionally, I knew that in general the story was not going to feature the characters that I was most interested in (namely Daenerys, Theon, Tyrion, and especially the whole issue of Jon and the Night Watch). That being said, t More...

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Aug 31, 2008

Kim rated it:

George R. R. Martin is a blowhard.

I mean that with respect, I suppose. I guess any author that got me to read over 2400 pages of his writing garners some respect, right? A smattering, maybe? I don’t know, maybe it’s because I was raised Catholic, or maybe it’s my sense of follow through or maybe just the fact that I’ve invested so much time in this damn series… whatever. I’m here, I’ve finished book #4. Yay.

Okay, so the reason I’m grumpy More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Kate rated it:

I started reading this series when watching the recent HBO series and I loved the first three books - could hardly put them down in fact - and then I got to this one and the momentum faltered. I'm not sure what has happened -is it a glut of fiction when I normally read mainly non-fiction, is it too much of a good thing all in one go or is it an author that has perhaps lost his way? Perhaps it's a little of all three. Whatever it is, I struggled to get through this book in parts. I feel that s More...

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Feb 29, 2008

Collin rated it:

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.

Bottom line: fans of the series waited too long for this and therefore were in a position of being impossible to please once this finally came out. This coupled with the facts that numerous spoiler chapters had been available online for years and that George cut his original manuscript in 2 to produce this and the sub More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Duncan rated it:

(Review applicable to entire series.)

George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series is still a work in progress after eleven years and four installments; I came to it late, so I read the first four back-to-back, and now I have to play the waiting game. Part of what's frustrating about reading them spread out over many years is that it's going to be virtually impossible to remember what's happened up to now when I finally get to the next one--there are so many damn subpl More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Jan-Maat rated it:

Of all of the volumes in ASOIAF to date this is the one that continues to grow on me.

This an autumnal volume in the series. Here entropy always increases. There is a sense that the chivalric ideals and dreams of the society inevitable deteriorate to terrorism, savagery and destitution. Political idealism decays into naive failures and the motivation for plotting and manipulation on a grand scale appears to be to create an abusive relationship with the daughter of a lost love. Then More...

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Dec 15, 2011

Rad Ryan rated it:

3.5 STARS!

I slept with words swirling in my head. I woke up in the morning because words are spinning in my unconscious mind. I don't know what's happening to me. When I close my eyes, suddenly paragraphs are reeling but they doesn't make sense. It's like uttering sentences on and on without anything in it. Gods. Did the series made it to me? Or just this book? Because of the characters telling the tale?

I was uncomfortable at first, A Storm of Swords left the story with fi More...

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Aug 02, 2011

Ben rated it:

N.B.: As always, this review does not contain spoilers for this book, but there are significant spoilers for previous books in the series.

All right, I am going to swim against the tide here and come out in unabashed admiration for A Feast for Crows. This book has had to bear an incredible burden: not only has it been "the most recent book" in the Song of Ice and Fire series for six years, but it is infamously "half a book" in the sense that it only follows roughly More...

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Jun 18, 2008

Jake rated it:

For those who don’t know, A Feast for Crows is the fourth book in George RR Martin’s (GRRM) Song of Fire and Ice series. It is, without question, one of the best fantasy series I’ve ever read. It’s engaging, well-written, and original. It is also fantastically brutal. Do not read this series if you can’t handle characters dying, because they do. Sometimes with great frequency (though the death toll in this one is not quite as high).

A Feast for Crows has been a long time coming. Appar More...

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Dec 19, 2007

Cynthia rated it:

As with the rest of the Song of Ice and Fire series, I can pick this one up, reread often and most of the time find something new to like or some detail that I didn't notice before fall into place. The series in general is very well-written and the world, the characters, everything has been so developed that it's just fascinating to watch it unfold.

This wasn't my favorite of the books so far and part of the reason I fel this way was that I wanted desperately to find out what was goin More...

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May 03, 2007

Alex rated it:

Truthfully, this one was harder to get through than the first three in the series. I came away with less of a sense of enjoyment, and more just finally being able to put it down. Perhaps it was because the majority of the characters from the first books aren't prominently featured; or, maybe, because it's tiresome to follow the thrashing of the noble families involved.

Martin ends the book with a promise that it's only half the story, and the other half (which concerns the characters More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Charon rated it:

I was about to complain about the lack of Tyrion, but the author has apparently expected this and wrote this nice little apology at the end. Well, I see his point, so I won't complain ... much. However, this book was in large parts cleaning up the mess left by all the deaths from A Storm of Swords and it did make the story kind of slow.

Talking about A Storm of Swords - I totally forgot to write this in my last review (spoiler for A Storm of Swords): <spoiler>While reading the fir More...

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Oct 24, 2007

Ashleigh rated it:

James' dad reccomended this series and I was instantly hooked....you might think its channeling LOTR in the first 100 pages of book one, but keep reading and you will find it is definitely its own story and world!
I am eagerly waiting for his next one!

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Jul 12, 2008

Kaelie rated it:

Cheap mass-market edition with ugly font and crooked letters and irregular margins and this is only half a book and some of my favorite characters are missing and I cannot put this book DOWN . . .

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Jul 09, 2011

Jessi rated it:

So apparently if you have written a successful series for your 4th installment you can write about a quater of the characters introduce useless and somewhat annoying characters and be unclear about several peoples fate as if it means nothing at all.

Really..I say again REALLY?

I love the way George R R Martin tells a story but I am calling you out a wee bit on this one. Were there no editors involved in this book? In example about 75 pages were based in Dorne Re: the Viper More...

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Feb 01, 2012

Otis rated it:

This book is really the 5th and 4th books cut in half. But rather than George cutting it squarely in half he just put half the character storylines in. So we miss out on hearing anything about various characters like Dany, Tyrion, Bran, and Stannis, and only hear a little about Jon Snow and Arya. This is not a bad thing, but it did feel like there was a gaping hole.

I think my favorite thing about this book was Littlefinger's scheming. <spoiler>I didn't see where he was going More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Mike rated it:

George split what was to be the final book into two parts aka. A Feast for Crows & A Dance with Dragons. Instead of telling half the story of ALL the characters in the first half, he chose to tell the full story of HALF the characters... and will tell the full story of the other characters in the second half. He didn't want to split the book in half with a "To be Continued..." ending. Though I think the mistake was that MOST of the characters that are focused on in part 4 of this serie More...

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Nov 28, 2011

Lisa rated it:

The prologue is a bit of a snooze because of all the new unfamiliar characters. But a couple chapters in you fall back into Martin's world with ease with subtle reminders of "what happened previously", that you barely notice and gladly reconnect with the core characters. I'm still in the beginning of the book but just had to post this hilarious line - it cracked me up and HAD to share :) Dolorous Edd Tollett gave a sigh. "When I was a lad, we only ate mice on special feast days. I More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Ms. Library rated it:

Damn it, George: This was my least favorite installment of A Song of Ice and Fire. I can’t imagine being a fan of the series, and waiting this long for this installment. Then, when I finally get it, I realize that several of my favorite characters are not mentioned at all. There are just whispers. Instead, I find a lot of new characters. The chapters are “The Reaver”, “The Drowned Man,” “The Queenmaker,” and I only got one chapter for that specific person in the entire book. So, George al More...

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Feb 14, 2011

Keith rated it:

"As a child I looked up to my grandfather. I loved visiting him at his house in the country, spending a weekend during summer helping him with the yard and the chickens, and in return he would cook up a grand feast and tell me stories of his adventurous youth. As I nibbled on a piping hot lemoncake he would tell me about his days in the military. He flew fighter jets, even as technology was moving towards drones. The last generation of sky cowboys. He was proud of his exploits, even though More...

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Aug 27, 2008

Katie rated it:

So this is just my overall review for the series so far.....Martin is bloody brilliant. This is one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.....he's not one of the guys trying to be the next Tolkien, he's doing his own thing. It's a bloody, ruthless, painful world he throws us into, but the characters are so strong and so dynamic that you will follow them to the bloody end (and there are quite a few bloody ends). He writes marvelous women, (YAY!), all very different but all very interesting More...

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Sep 11, 2011

Aaron rated it:

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