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)

words and names mispronounced

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, once again comma but a lot of the names were mispronounce compared to the first three books. Catlin, Peter, Braeen became Brian and a couple of other versions. Otherwise comma it was a good story once again, and I look forward to the next and last book.

a struggle to complete

All of the sudden Mr. Roy D. decides to change voices, pronunciation and delivery. Considering that this is a book of side story's and supporting characters development, it was overall good, but very tedious.

Another great read by Roy

Love his different voices! He's an excellent reader. My only problem is how he changed names in this book compared to the other books? Petyr, Gilly and Catelyn's names were all different in this book reading by Roy.

i love this series

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

Another great hit

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

the whole beginning at the iron islands was a snooze fest and almost had me giving up, but the great narration got me going after a brief pause. Maybe George could have broken this part up through out the book a bit more.Grouping it all in the beggining when we wanted to see what happened to all of our favorite characters, was a bit discouraging.

What does Roy Dotrice bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Roy Dotrice makes this story come alive!!!! His narration is the best i have heard. he gives everybody their own voices.The only complaint i have about his narration is that he changed peoples voices and the pronunciation of some of the names in this book after being consistant in the other books which threw me off a bit and took some getting used to. He spoiled us with the other books keeping everybodies voices consistant.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

no

Any additional comments?

Some voices change for the worse

Worst book in the series though by no means bad. Disappointed that the reader changed some of the voices of some characters. Petyr Baelish and Arya Stark especially sounded much better in previous volumes.

Not Sure

Not sure if I will continue listening to coming books in the series. Seems as if the author is getting more into shocking reader with sadistic, bloody, and sexual extremes than with continuing what started out as a rich complex exciting series. The separate stories are becoming unjustifiably verbose without adding anything meaningful to the story. My mind sometimes wanders when listening and I find myself not really feeling I need to rewind to pick up what I have missed. Hemingway has a point Less is More.

Great story

Book was fantastic but Roy changed some of the voices and pronounces names differently. Difficult to tolerate at first but you get used to it.

This I s a great book

This is a great book took me 4 days too finish it but I can't wait to listen to the next one

Amazing

Took me a while to get used to Roy's accents but ended up loving this audiobook. Of course it is an incredible story. Starting the next one immediately.

Finished out of spite

Story begins very slowly and focused on impertinent details. it does pick up however and get away from the crap that made me put it down --only to pick up a few weeks later to find out what happens. i am glad to finish it. Great storytelling, believable characters and a strong climax. i will continue on to the next book.