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)

more of the same please.

4 books into the audio book series and I'm completely engaged. the book is so much better than the t.v. series.

Weird version of this performance.

This was quite strange for me, I've listened to Roy Dotrice's version of this book before, and it was significantly better, apparently, there's more than one.
Quite disappointed to learn that the one in Audible is the lesser one (names are mispronounced, some read errors aren't corrected, etc...)

Still a fairly good book and a fairly good performance, but having listened to the other version, I can't understand why Audible is providing this one.

Great as always!

The narration was wonderful, it added so much to the story! It was a great listen.

Facinating

I had a great time listening to this story! George R.R. Martin has a way with words that is remarkable. However I do believe that Roy Dotrice has a hard time pronouning the names/places in the story the same way twice...

Slow

This book was a bit slow and not as eventful as the previous. But had some good points.

What happened to Dotrice??

Well....what can I say. As an audiobook, this one fell short for me. Dotrice had established such great character voices in the previous books only to alter some completely (and to their detriment) in this one. So much so that parts were hard to even listen to. I managed to get through it, but definitely wasn't my favorite audio experience, and ended up picking up the print book as well.

story just keeps getting better!

only off thing is the Narrator switches voices on a few characters. I'm still trying to decide it is purposeful or if it is an accident...

Roy Dotrice

what is up with this guy? he can't keep his accents for the characters strait. Also can't keep the pronunciation of their names straight. Is he getting to old or something?

The speaker changed a bit

Great story, but Roy Dotrice changed his pronunciations. He hanged voices too. It took a while to get used to, I hope it's different for the next book.

Littlefinger grows 2 feet and gets a deep voice.

Any additional comments?

It's been said by many already, Roy changed the voices. It's still good but I am really thinking about picking up the book for Dance with Dragons. In this volume the great voice that Petyr (and Varys) had is gone, replaced by a gruff, deep voice. Apparently in the next volume my favorite character Daenerys gets an awful crone's voice. That simply won't do.