The path of faith was a crooked one, Brienne could not help but note.

A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin

When I think about this book, I can’t help but to think about the time it took to finish it. The book was great, but because of the timing of what was going on in my life and the length of the book, it took me a while to get through it. It took me so long that I took a 4 book break in the middle of it. I usually don’t do that, but I needed a break from the seriousness. This blog is about the 4th book of The Song of Ice and Fire series and it was the same style and continued the plotline immaculately. While reading it, a person couldn’t help but notice a few things were missing. But you’ll have to read it to find out what those were.

A pretty usual theme to the series is death. There is war throughout the entire series and therefore characters die often. Many main characters have died, including what to me would be main characters that helped the plot become more diverse. In A Feast for Crows, there were not as many people killed. There was still the war, which was sort of fizzling out with the characters displayed, but the characters that were not present I can feel the build up from the other characters.

I feel like there is something brewing in the background of this story. I could feel it trying to bubble up to the surface. I could feel it coming on, almost like the warning signs before volcano erupts. I just feel like some really big things are going to happen in the next book. I wonder if Martin is going to use any of the major character plots from A Feast for Crows going or if it is only going to be the side we didn’t see in this book. A Dance with Dragons is next and I can’t wait to see what is going to happen.

There were a few new people in this story, it showed what was going on with the Iron Fleet, which before had been a very minute sub-plot and it has become a major part of the series. I believe that the book title could have been a double meaning. The new king of the Iron Fleet is also called “Crow’s Eye” and this book showed how all of the other kings were just preparing the way for these sub-characters to come in and surprise the Iron Throne because they are so focused on the war in front of their faces. Another new person was the Princess Arianne of Dorne. During the book, I couldn’t understand why we were reading about Dorne, then the last chapter happened and it blew me away. I just love it when new sides of the story unfold.

What am I looking forward to? What’s going to happen to Cersei? What’s going to happen with Dorne now that Arianne isn’t going to marry Dany’s brother? What was the last word that Brienne yelled, and did it save her life? Sansa is going to be married to someone else and she will have Winterfell and the Eyrie?

Since we saw one side of the story, the people I missed in this book were: Brann, Jon, Dany. But the next book, I’m going to miss Arya and Sansa. Have you read this series? What are you looking forward to? If you have not read it, do you want to? Comment below and let me know what you think!