A Feast for Crows
Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 5:09 am
- ISBN13: 9780553582031
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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.
I can’t give a review… see… I preordered this book OVER TWO YEARS AGO and still Amazon hasn’t shipped it.
Going by the reviews given… Has Martin pulled a Robert Jordan?
Rating: 1 / 5
I have to agree with everybody that this is a great series. Keep in mind though, that Martin never really finishes much of anything in the first three books, so to say that its a series is almost a misnomer. You could probably just glue them all together to make one book…
Rating: 4 / 5
For all the cry babies who are griping about the ‘BOOK’ in audio form, grow up.
It’s disgustingly sad that you need to have a work of such depth and style read to you like some pre-school child. Audio books, I don’t who care the narrator is, takes away from the fundamental experience of the piece….your imagination creating the world that’s laid out before you.
Now, to be fair, if you’re illiterate due to some developmental issue or another, there’s hope!!! (…)
Rating: 5 / 5
The absolute worst thing audio books can do is change a good narrator in the middle of a series. I loved the first 3 books and Roy Dotrice was Great. I wish I knew why they changed narrators in mid series. That totally sucks!! I don’t have time to read the books and depend totally on audio books. When it happened in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series at least King explains that the original narrator was in a serious accident and could no longer narrate. So what is the reason Mr. Dotrice did not do book 4. I hope it is a good reason because I am very disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Song of Fire and Ice books are wonderful and like other readers I have re-read them while waiting for A Feast for Crows to be released. What to do?
Get the unabridged audio books (www.audible.com is a good source) put on the headphones, and listen to Roy Dotrice. You can even read along in your printed version while you listen to this terrific narration. You won’t find but a few mistakes and the voices Mr. Dotrice develops for each character are great.
This should hold you over since it takes over 125 hours to listen to the first three books.
Rating: 5 / 5