A Feast For Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Sigh. There's nothing really wrong with this book, for what it is. The problem is what it is, because what it is is half a book. Half of a VERY VERY LONG BOOK, at that. If you add the pages of A Feast For Crows together, you have approximately 2,100 pages, and that is actually the size of like TEN BOOKS, and with just as much story. So automatically, A Feast For Crows is at a disadvantage.
That said, even while I was wishing book five was just HERE ALREADY, I did like getting into the heads of several new POV characters, and seeing parts of Westeros (like Dorne and Oldtown) that we haven't seen before. Brienne and Cersei in particular are interesting to me. I like what Martin does with Cersei. She is still 100% contemptible, but her line of reasoning makes sense, in a twisted vengeful sort of way. She is narcissistic, impatient, and so desperate for power and respect that she makes stupid decision after stupid decision, plus she has less foresight than a blindfolded horse. Plus plus also, she's a giant bitch.Yeah, that's a good place to end this review. CERSEI IS A GIANT BITCH. WOOOOOO!
[First read September 2007]