Product Description

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

A Feast for Crows

It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.

But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.

It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6718 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-26
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 1104 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Long-awaited doesn't begin to describe this fourth installment in bestseller Martin's staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire. Speculation has run rampant since the previous entry, A Storm of Swords, appeared in 2000, and Feast teases at the important questions but offers few solid answers. As the book begins, Brienne of Tarth is looking for Lady Catelyn's daughters, Queen Cersei is losing her mind and Arya Stark is training with the Faceless Men of Braavos; all three wind up in cliffhangers that would do justice to any soap opera. Meanwhile, other familiar faces—notably Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen—are glaringly absent though promised to return in book five. Martin's Web site explains that Feast and the forthcoming A Dance of Dragons were written as one book and split after they grew too big for one volume, and it shows. This is not Act I Scene 4 but Act II Scene 1, laying groundwork more than advancing the plot, and it sorely misses its other half. The slim pickings here are tasty, but in no way satisfying. (Nov.)
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From Library Journal
In the fourth volume of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga, the evil king is finally dead-and trouble is starting to brew.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Bookmarks Magazine
Martin’s manuscript for Feast of Crows was so long that his publisher relegated half the chapters to a fifth book due out in 2006, A Dance with Dragons. With only half the storylines and characters present from A Storm of Swords (2000), Feast of Crows should seem thin—but it’s so rich with characters, plot twists, and settings that a few critics thought the novel one of the best in the fantasy genre. Martin renders his characters—would-be queens, outlaws, priests, squires, ladies, and fools—with unusual depth and moral complexity, while placing their personal dramas within the epic sweep of lands lost and won. Though the book stands alone, readers will reap greater rewards by starting with the first of the series, A Game of Thrones.

Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

Customer Reviews

A Feast for Crows
I do not feel as though I could ever give any less stars than three for such a brilliant author as Martin. However, I do agree with most of the reviews that this book just did not make the cut. I really loved the first three books, and had a hard time putting them down. This fourth book took me awhile to read, as I had a hard time getting into it. I am very hopeful, as are most Martin fans, that book five will probably knock our socks off. Maybe this book was just a bad dream. This book tended to go on and on and really lose sight of the point. Martin probably could have shortened this book to 500 pages, and gotten his point accross just as well. Well, lets hope book five is out sooner than later. I am sure that Martin will redeem himself with that book.

I purchased this book two years ago...
I purchased this book two years ago and I have not read it yet. I thought that the next book in the series would be coming out shortly and I wanted to read them together. Well, I am still waiting. I have read the first three books in this series and enjoyed them enough to read them twice. But this waiting is too much. Come on George, get to work on this series and let your other projects go for awhile. I hope you will finish this series during your lifetime (and mine).

Look at the timeline for the hardcover release dates:
Book 1 - Aug 1996
Book 2 - Feb 1999
Book 3 - Oct 2000
Book 4 - Nov 2005

It's been twelve years since the first release and we are only half way into the series. Will it take twelve more years to publish the rest? Is Book 5 coming out in 2009? ... 2010? And George, don't tell me to get a life. Without readers what kind of life would you have? You owe it to your readers to finish in a timely manner what you started. You have the potential to be remembered as a great writer - if you give us the rest of this series.

dissapointing
a very dissapointing fourth installment to the series. It was a big mistake to drop half the characters. Aslo he introduces too many irrelevant and boring (as of the end of the 4th book) characters. He should have kept all the characters together for the book, made it longer if need be, and dropped the characters that add nothing to the overall storyline. hopefully they will all have been vital when the series is through, but as of now they arn't. also, who do the publishers think they are fooling by making the 4th book "1000" pages, the same length as the rest of them. The type is clearly bigger, I would venture that it's only a little over half as long as the first three. Very insulting to the readers. but i give it a 3 because the important characters (cersei, jaime) are still as interesting and as important as they were in the first three books, and I will stick with the series till the end, undoubtedly.