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)

Audio quality

For some reason the audio quality seems diminished in this book when compared to the first 3 novels. Which is odd seeing as this was mostly likely recorded with better technology than those. Roy Dotrice’s voice sounds echoey and tin like. Maybe it’s just me but his voice is more full bodied in the first three books, and the same with the 5th book. Maybe this was just a bad recording. Still a good book and a solid narrator however. Highly recommend.

Every GOT fan should read the books 📚

This book gave me the opportunity to get into these characters I more or less haven't cared about since I started to read the series. The hound and mountains fates are a bit different in the book than the TV series but I think I like the books are better. Those two characters were very centered in the shows running. The books are different but in a good way. Arya. Jamie, Samwell, Brienne, Cersei and Sansa all fell through trials in this book. The performance that Roy puts into different characters makes this story something else just a really nice added touch to the experience.

the most incompetent Englishman I've ever heard

are these books amazing? yes? it's it still worth listening to? absolutley. However after 4 books in i can't ignore this narrators incompetence. has he never heard English spoken before? i can't believe how many absolutely ridiculous pronunciation choices he makes! here are some words this man can't say; gallant, book, took, look, maester

not to mention the fact that hardly a single name makes it out of his mouth unscathed.

Petyr: peh-tire
Catylyn: Kaitlyn
Brienne: Bry-een
Craster: Cray-ster


but the worst part and why I'm deciding to say something now is that he completely changed Arya's accent four bleeding books in! what the absolute hell is wrong with this idiot!? did he forget the voice of a POV character he's been narrating for 4 books? unbelievable! absolutley ridiculous.

great book

My only complaint is the way the narrorator pronounces certain names and sayings. Who knows though, it may just be a british thing.

narrator is excellent

took a while to finish but still a great story with different characters. I recommend it

It hurts me, I can't finish it

before you pay the dollar bucks on this title (or the next few as I did using my credits up), ensure that you are happy to be completely disrupted by Roy Dotrice doing a 180 turn on some key characters.

I could let the accent differences change between family members slide based on the pure number of characters to assign accents but the switches on Arya and Jamie along with others I'm sure is too much. I simply can't do it.
Arya and all her family are northerners, Dotrice chose standard English accents for them, neutral and easy to work with. I have no idea how the Monty Python style version came through on this one. it's sad as I love spending my driving time lost in this world.

I've read it all and watched it so I can let it go but if you are locked in, get ready for a bumpy ride.

narrator

the guy reading the book does stupid annoying sounds for certain characters and it drives me insane sometimes with the noises. super annoying and ruins parts of the reading.

I should have read the books first!!!

Omg!! So many details that were left out of the series!! Cat coming back from the dead?!?!!! Love this series!!!

Narrator Discrepancies

For all the books up to this one the voices stayed the same. When it got to A Feast for Crows some characters had different voices and the narrator made minor changes to names of characters. Brienne turned to Brianne and Catelyn to Caitlin.

The story and reading are excellent

Roy Dotrice brings life to Martin’s characters in vivid detail. They only thing I don’t like is they way he does Women’s voices. It’s a great performance despite that.