A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Oct 09, 2011 Lanica rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011, audiobooks, reviewed, fantasy, series-continuing

I am glad I listened to this on audio, I don't think I could have finished it otherwise. I feel like the story has become too large, cumbersome and watered-down. There are too many tentacles to keep track of on this beast, and they all begin to look much alike.

My main disappointment was that I care so little for the characters. I used to love them all and hope to see them thrive, now I have come to expect everyone to die, and because of that much of the excitement and anticipation has been bled ...more

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Aug 02, 2010 Jordan rated it really liked it

While I still enjoyed this book immensely I felt that it took the series on an odd kind of detour. Mostly I missed many of the familiar characters from the previous novels though this was explained by Martin in that he wrote so much for the fourth installment he decided to split this book in two. After reading A Feast for Crows (which was not nearly as gripping as the previous three) I personally don't think this was a wise decision but I shall see. Perhaps this is petty but I was also not a fan ...more

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Aug 30, 2013 Alice Lee rated it liked it

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As much as I liked this book, it is still the weakest so far. And maybe it's because I've been more or less reading nothing but the Song of Ice and Fire for the last year or so, George R. R. Martin's "fantasy voice" is finally starting to grate on me a bit. ...more

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