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A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Hallelujah, I finally finished it. I must have been reading this on and off for three years. It's a great series, but this was a little too sedate.

Some of the most interesting characters--Jon Snow, Danaerys, Tyrion--where missing completely and others showed up too briefly or--like Cersei--too much! Whenever I read a chapter I really liked, it was followed by a chapter with a character that I disliked or simply wasn't interested in, so I kept putting the book down, sometimes for months.

Martin writes in the epilogue that he had too much material and it was a choice of splitting all the stories in half or telling the complete stories of just a few characters and keep the other characters for the next book. That's what he did and it was the wrong choice in my opinion. It made for a less than thrilling book.

And six years later the next book still hasn't been published. Should we assume that Martin got indefinitely stuck and it will never happen? It's a shame, because this is some of the best epic fantasy I have ever read.