A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. Martin
Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.
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Listened to the audiobook and was surprised by a switch of the narrator. I think John Lee did a fine job but it took awhile to get used to the change, and I felt that he did not have quite the variety of different voices. In particular I thought most of his female voices sounded practically indistinguishable.
This book was a slower pace than #3, which was to be expected but still mildly disappointing. There was less action and driving plot in this volume, and this did lead to my mind wandering occasionally.
Also was bummed to find some of my favorite characters' POV not represented, but Martin declares that the next book will have those chapters.
Overall, I enjoyed this book but in some ways the story seems to be spreading thin--the main characters are spread farther geographically and most seem to be going off in their own directions with their own plots. I hope that each character still has a purpose and payoff. It will be cool to see how Martin starts to bring the storylines together and perhaps interweaves them.
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