A Feast for Crows

2005's A Feast for Crows appears to divide opinion more than any of the previous three books in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. One reason for this was the author's decision to chop this fourth installment into two parts due to its excessive length. (The second part would eventually be released in 2011 as A Dance with Dragons). The author then upset fans even more by leaving the plot threads of his three most popular characters hanging until the following book. So readers had to wait six more years to discover what became of Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, and Danaerys Targaryan.

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I could go on picking out parts of this long, long book but I don't want to reveal too much. I really enjoyed this fourth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire. If you are interested in reading A Feast for Crows, I recommend it, but with this caveat. Any book would be hard-pressed to follow the excitement and intricate plotting of the brilliant A Storm of Swords, but this is a different kind of book. You only have to look at the title to realize this. There is an air of desolation and desperation to the narrative and it feels much darker than the previous book. It's the bloodied battlefield days after the war has been fought.

Full review can be found here: https://biginjapangrayman.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/a-feast-for-crows-2005-by-george-r-r-martin/