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Book Details

Format eBook
Pages 852
Language English
Published Nov 8, 2005
Publisher Bantam

Description

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.

It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests - but only a few are the survivors.

Genres

Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Action & Adventure History Horror Fantasy

Reviews

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I found this book quite boring compared to the previous one, basically because I only really enjoyed two of the perspectives (i.e. Jamie and Cersei). I found myself skimming some of the Brienne chapters as they were utterly boring. I have now started A Dance with Dragons and happy to report that I’m enjoying it a lot more, and I’m only 100 pages in!

March 1st 2026

About 15 Cersei chapters too many, but overall, I found it much more engaging than I did the last time I attempted to read through it. I may not have loved it the way I did the first three books in the series, but it did successfully rekindle my love for a series that had been all but dead to me for over two years. For that, I am thankful.

February 8th 2015
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