Why is feast for crows so bad

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This topic contains spoilers - you can click, tap, or highlight to reveal them. User Info: Mrreow. User Info: mrplainswalker. If you skip to the end of the book, Martin has a one page blurb about how and why he split the books the way he did, if you're curious.

It won't make the book any better, but it might make you feel better? Sadly, the next book was still only a marginal improvement even after returning to the more "interesting" POVs. Life and Death are both peaceful. It's the transition that sucks. I don't think it was bad, I just found it to be extremely boring and tedious.

And there were only a few compelling POVs. He who strikes with meaning is killed by meaning. User Info: garan. There wasn't enough Jaime or Littlefinger. They were pretty much the highlights of that book, and watching Cersei self destruct from incompetence. The horrible Greyjoy chapters were what made to book so bad to me. User Info: RebelElite Second best book in the series, I'm sorry your opinions are so horrible. User Info: Etrurianmage.

AFFC has grown on me since I read it. Even at the time is had its moments. Jaime's POV pretty much carries the story, but his character development alone makes it worthwhile. There are major pacing issues arguably necessary after the page piece of ass-kicking that was ASoS, but it maintains the characteristics of a solid ASoIaF book.

I think I liked this book much more than most but I do agree that there were problems with it and you illustrated those perfectly. Take Blackwater…for epic scale of battle the book has it all over the show. For character beats? The TV show killed it. Holy shit, Hulk you my favorite author. Meanwhile, the review is remarkably soft on the post GoT spawn that RR brought forth. Seriously — RR must have had some serious potty training problems. I think reviewing AFFC in isolation as you have is understandable, but ultimately self-defeating.

He clearly said in the end note that it was one half of the story and explained his reasons for doing that — purely logistical. There will be no TV series based on this book, only the larger plot. Absolutely loving it. However, I am having a different issue. To me the book reads as though it is by a different writer. To me, it reads like a romance novel. I noticed in the front of the book that Mr. Martin has written with other people and wondered if this could be a collaboration, although that is not indicated.

At any rate, do you think the sentences somehow sound different? What are people talking about? This book was golden, an improvement over the others, I felt. All parts of the book were equally interesting. Previously, I sometimes felt as if I was just waiting to get back to the Wall, or Tyrion, or the East. Westeros was an afterthought it seemed. In contrast, this book showed me Westeros more than any of the others; I was completely immersed in it.

All the character arcs were compelling and interesting. Each showed me a sliver of a wonderfully realized world, and shaped the character into something stronger and more worldly. Grew from a girl into a woman. Found nothing, but discovered herself. A profound story of redemption and courage.

Got laid. BUT, the overarching Westrosi plot of this book was the downfall of the Lannisters, just as Swords and Kings focused on the collapse of the Starks. So while it was frustrating to view the plot through the warped, overwhelmingly negative viewpoint of Cersei, the payoff of Cersei having to answer for her treatment of others, especially Jaimie, was incredible.

I can see why people felt bored with this book. The overarching, epic scope of the previous books was abandoned in favor of consolidating the plot and tying story-lines together. I greatly appreciated this. Before the books had seemed jumbled and disjoint, many different stories running in parallel; the struggles in Westeros ironically peripheral to the Wall and the East.

Now, thanks to this book, I can see how the series fits together more clearly. This may never happen though, because the drive behind the new Jaimie is that he has to be something more than a fighter.

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. It's not a bad book. It's just slower than the previous three so that automatically seems to give it a bad rating for people.

User Info: mrplainswalker. For the first three books, I looked forward to picking them up. With AFfC, I looked forward to putting it down. Obviously that's just personal opinion, but I consider that a bad book.

It's not like he needed to start from scratch and "reboot" like people in here are implying. And even if he did need to start from scratch, so what. AGoT was significantly better. Life and Death are both peaceful. It's the transition that sucks. User Info: TheSchref. I like it more and more after each read. Especially Jaime's chapters.