Feast for Crows book review
(warning, spoilers)
Okay, so, I got the 4th Martin book about a couple months ago from a friend to read.
So, I just finished reading it. The disappointment I had with this book probably couldn't be bigger. The first 400 pages are incredibly boring.
Mind you, this is 400 pages of boringness that I faithfully read through, hoping to get to a better part since I loved the first 3 books so much.
Why is it boring? It is mostly a dialogue of pure politics, the setting stays almost entirely inside the castles. It also follows Brienne around on a pointless task to find Sansa Stark who isn't anywhere near where Brienne is looking. Not much happens with her either except she kills a few bad guys at one point. Then, after following her the entire book, they kill her off senselessly (I told you there were spoilers.) You feel like you've been dragged along on this pointless quest of hers for nothing. Now its possible, from the way it was written she didn't really die, but this is Martin here. He kills off everybody.
So Jaime has no hand and he and Cersei squabble and bicker, we DON'T get to hear anything about the wall, and nothing about Dany and her dragons -- the two BEST parts of the story. I was so gripped after the end of 3, wondering what would happen with the Wall and the Others... but nothing. Just boring politics.
After about page 400 a few mildly interesting things happen. And of course, more people DIE. So, I drug myself all the way through this book, and at the end, Martin has a caveat:
"'Hey, wait a minute!' some of you may be saying about now. (About NOW? Howabout at page 200?) 'Wait a minute, wait a minute! Where's Dany and the dragons? Where's Tyrion? We hardly saw Jon Snow...' I was still writing when it dawned on me that the book had become too big to publish in a single volume..."
Oh good idea Martin. Take all the boring crap and put it in book 4. Also he says that book 5 will be out "next year" but I don't see it yet. He took SO LONG for book 4 that I forgot who half the characters were. And there are a LOT of characters. I didn't want to go back and read 3 AGAIN before 4, because I still remembered the main points. It would have been boring also. So I muddled through. All I can say is I'm glad its over. I'll read book 5, I'm sure, since it will actually have stuff about the Wall and the Dragons, the actual COOL part of the story.
Okay, so, I got the 4th Martin book about a couple months ago from a friend to read.
So, I just finished reading it. The disappointment I had with this book probably couldn't be bigger. The first 400 pages are incredibly boring.
Mind you, this is 400 pages of boringness that I faithfully read through, hoping to get to a better part since I loved the first 3 books so much.
Why is it boring? It is mostly a dialogue of pure politics, the setting stays almost entirely inside the castles. It also follows Brienne around on a pointless task to find Sansa Stark who isn't anywhere near where Brienne is looking. Not much happens with her either except she kills a few bad guys at one point. Then, after following her the entire book, they kill her off senselessly (I told you there were spoilers.) You feel like you've been dragged along on this pointless quest of hers for nothing. Now its possible, from the way it was written she didn't really die, but this is Martin here. He kills off everybody.
So Jaime has no hand and he and Cersei squabble and bicker, we DON'T get to hear anything about the wall, and nothing about Dany and her dragons -- the two BEST parts of the story. I was so gripped after the end of 3, wondering what would happen with the Wall and the Others... but nothing. Just boring politics.
After about page 400 a few mildly interesting things happen. And of course, more people DIE. So, I drug myself all the way through this book, and at the end, Martin has a caveat:
"'Hey, wait a minute!' some of you may be saying about now. (About NOW? Howabout at page 200?) 'Wait a minute, wait a minute! Where's Dany and the dragons? Where's Tyrion? We hardly saw Jon Snow...' I was still writing when it dawned on me that the book had become too big to publish in a single volume..."
Oh good idea Martin. Take all the boring crap and put it in book 4. Also he says that book 5 will be out "next year" but I don't see it yet. He took SO LONG for book 4 that I forgot who half the characters were. And there are a LOT of characters. I didn't want to go back and read 3 AGAIN before 4, because I still remembered the main points. It would have been boring also. So I muddled through. All I can say is I'm glad its over. I'll read book 5, I'm sure, since it will actually have stuff about the Wall and the Dragons, the actual COOL part of the story.