A Feast for Crows

Pages: 976 📖

Year Published: 2005 🗓️

Days to Complete: 35 🕰️

Author:

George R. R. Martin comes from humble beginnings in New Jersey. He was known to tell and write stories as a child, some much too scary for his peers, and was an avid reader at an early age. Before fully committing to writing, he was an English and journalism teacher at Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa. While A Song of Ice and Fire is known as his most successful series, Martin was hard at work writing other stories and books, mostly horror, long before he even considered writing these lengthy epic fantasies. Many of these projects were destined to become movies or shows at some point which lead Martin to move to Hollywood to become more involved in the film industry. After several failures, he turned his attention back to writing full time and thus, A Song of Ice and Fire was born. Currently, George R. R. Martin lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and there is a good chance you can catch him attending science fiction conventions.

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Taken on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip when I thought that I would finish the book. I did not.

This Book at a Glance:

Deviant- After submitting to the flow and style of Martin's previous three books, it was strange to begin reading A Feast for Crows and realize that main characters were missing and new characters, seemingly less important, had arrived. It wasn't until the epilogue that Martin addressed the unexpected changes.

Favorite Quote:

"The memory still made her angry. Arianne clung to that, feeding the flame within her heart. Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt."

I can't help but relate heavily to this sentiment. When facing difficult emotions, anger is often the easiest to process.

Takeaways:

It seems that Martin himself struggled to keep up with the giant world that he created, but not in a bad way. In the epilogue, he writes that there was simply too much to address in one book and he needed to split it up into two. In the meantime, I really enjoyed deeper insight into the previously not-so-in-depth characters like Brienne, Jaime, and Cersei. This book also varied from the show more than any of the others which really made me feel like I was experiencing a spin off in the Game of Thrones universe.