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fw more pages to go. I will give my humble accounting of it soon...
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Indeed, that was one of the biggest shocks ive ever had. Utterley unexpected.Murrin wrote:Just you wait until book three...Usivius wrote:But Spoiler #2 did shock me. The only time it happened in the book.
I thought the Whispering Wood was shown quite well through Catelyn's PoV, IIRC.Usivius wrote:The only moment comes when you read, (SECOND HAND too!) how Robb's army crushed The Kingslayers army. Thay would be a battle I would have liked to read about, similar to the Imp's POV battle chapter. But, no, the author doesn't even give us that bit of satisfaction.
This is partly justified by something in the next book. Also, Dany had to sacrifice her son for her husband's life, which is definately an important point from that particular stoyline.- Too many seemingly minor characters introduced then either killed off or just never mentioned again. One case is that magus healer who Dany 'saves'. She heals the Khal, he eventually dies because he doesn't follow her healing recipe, she brings him alive again in a terrible ceremony, then is herself killed by Dany later in her own 'ceremony'. I look back and think that the character was so unneccesary. Dany spoke of learning a lesson from her, but is was such a minor point, it needed not even be there.
Tyrion really comes into his own in book two.Jon is my fave so far (who are living), but I see great potential in 'liking' Tyrion (the Imp), but so far have a hard time sympathizing with a character so blinded by his own cleverness that he can't see the chaos and evil his family commits. I am hoping he gains the strength of character to use his smarts in a better way.
Gets a lot more time. Book three is were it gets really good.-the 'mystery' of The Wall and what is beyond is intriging.
Shame.Overall I would objectively give the book an 8 out of 10.
Subjectively i give it 7 out of 10... I'm not sure I will read any more..
I didn't think so. All that is described is the screems and shouts of combat, but none of the first hand detail as in the previous battle.I thought the Whispering Wood was shown quite well through Catelyn's PoV,
Good point. Hadn't thought of that.This is partly justified by something in the next book. Also, Dany had to sacrifice her son for her husband's life, which is definately an important point from that particular stoyline.
I'm getting near the end of Feast. The beginning of the book was pretty frustrating, but it definitely gets better. I think George would've been better served if at the conception of the series, five had been the magic # and not seven. There are just too damn many kingdoms, and I can think of two that are heavily featured in Crows that could take a flying leap.Roland of Gilead wrote:In defense of Martin, I think the pacing of Feast is marred by the decision to write the entire story for half the characters, instead of the other way around.
I think had we been treated with chapters of Jon, Dany, Tyrion, etc., interspersed within the other chapters, Feast would have flowed better and with more suspense, just like the first three novels.
It's a shame, really, that Martin and his publishers felt compelled to give us half a book. I was as big a complainer as anyone out there, that five plus years was too long to wait for a novel in a fantasy series . . . but the resolution to the problem may have carried too high a price to pay.
Edit-Nevermind, misunderstood your post.I think George would've been better served if at the conception of the series, five had been the magic # and not seven.