A Feast for Crows

A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4

By: George R.R. Martin

Narrated by: Roy Dotrice

Length: 33 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

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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 that began with A Game of Thrones. 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.

©2007 George R.R. Martin (P)2011 Random House

Critic reviews

"Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best.... [He] is a tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting plotter and a deft and inexhaustible sketcher of personalities.... This is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien." ( Time)

"The only fantast series I'd put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings…. It's a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who don't read fantasy…. If you're new to the series, you must begin with Book 1, A Game of Thrones. Once you're hooked…. you'll be like the rest of us fans, gnawing your knuckles until book 5” (Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press)

“THE MOST impressive modern fantasy, both in terms of conception and execution, is George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.… A masterpiece that will be mentioned with the great works of fantasy.” ( Contra Costa Times)

great store

as always, this leaves me wanting more. dreading the completion of book 5 since I know there is still story to finish beyond it.

spotty reading.

the narrator does not use the same voices for the same characters of throughout the book.

Are you serious

Oh my god it’s so can’t end like this every chapter makes you want to hear more and some of the chapters and in you’re like are like omg are you for real right now this is ridiculous now I have to listen to the next book right away because I am freaking out by the way epic so much better than the show and I absolutely love the show

the unequivocal worst book in the series

just skip this book altogether and watch the series. nothing on Jon, Bran, Tyrion, Dany, or Theon. too much focus on characters that don't matter like Brienne and the Greyjoys (excluding Theon who is only mentioned to be getting tortured; a way cooler story than the stuff Martin talks about in this book in regards to the Iron Isles). spoiler alert: you waste like 13 hours listening to Brienne and NOTHING happens in her story line aside from them all getting hanged at the end. great series but this segment was by far the worst so far. save your free book credit for something else.

trust me.

Not as bad as I thought it would be

Any additional comments?

After reading all these reviews I wasn't looking forward to this one. But it turned out most peoples issues were unfounded. Yes Dotrice botches some of the names (Gilly = Jilly, Catelyn = Katelyn, Petyr = Peter) but it doesn't take away from the story.

Arya's voice was a bit like an old woman, but it got better in the later chapters. The only thing that really bothered me was Petyr's voice COMPLETELY changed in the first Alayne chapter.

Otherwise the story was great, a bit slow in places, but it was nice to explore the other characters. Off to ADWD!

What happened to the names?

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

I do not understand how the same person that has read literally hundreds of hours of the same book suddenly starts saying some of the names differently compared to the previous 3 books.

Especially in the very beginning it's clear he is not sure how to pronounce some of the names so they differ from sentence to sentence. It gets better towards the end, but it's still funny that Petyr Baelish has suddenly become Peter for example.

Great plots, good characters, too much detail.

While I normally enjoy the detail to draw you into the story and give depth of understanding, I found much of the time the detail in this book to be pointless and tedious.

Great Book

I thought the book was very good. A little long winded at times but a very good story. I didn't like the narrator as much as I liked the book. The story in this book varies quite a bit from the TV shows. The main events are similar but how you get to them sometimes are quite different. All in all a great series of books.

Good Book, Horrible Narrator

If you could sum up A Feast for Crows in three words, what would they be?

You Know Nothing

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jon Snow, He knows nothing. He was the most likeable character.

What three words best describe Roy Dotrice’s performance?

Decent Good voice Terrible at names.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When Jon learns about Stanis was killed, then got murdered himself

Any additional comments?

The narrator freaking changes how he pronounced the names of almost all of the characters making it very hard to listen to and especially when they were all the same in the previous books.

Okay

Names are mispronounced and voices are very different. Glad the book was recorded, but the inaccuracies are disappointing.