The Starks are disappearing.
352433
If anyone has not followed this series, you should buy the discs and get going.
I cannot praise it too highly.  Surprises galore.  Fantastic acting. Costuming
is outstanding,,plot line is amazing.  Keeps you wanting more.  I follow it on HBO
and then HBOGo.  I cannot say enough. Get it and watch it. My review won't
do it any more justice.
3006417
Now that the fellowship was scattered, Frodo and Sam are alone, off to the land of darkness.  The rest of the fellowship are off to senguard to defeat the traitor Saruman.  To do that, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have to save the hobbitnapped hobbits, Pippin and Merry.  Meanwhile Frodo and Sam are being followed by the sneaky Gollum and they join up with him.  Can he be trusted?  Will they destroy the ring and kill the traitor?  Find out by reading the second in this fabulous series which has been read through these long lasting years.
I thought this book was a good follow up to the Fellowship of the Ring.  The only part I was annoyed about was that there were 2 parts in the book.  The first part they only talked about Merry and Pippin being captured and you had to read the whole half of the book to find out what happened to Frodo and Sam.  Otherwise this is a good book and it ends again like the first. ( Meaning you have to read the third to find out this painstakingly drop off of an end.)
2106247
I'm a big fan of Baxter's imaginings of the past, and while I found this story gripping to begin with, in my opinion the ending in this last book in the Northland trilogy lacked the same impact as the first novel, Stone Spring. Thankfully the rape and gore were toned down for this book which I found was rather gratuitous in the second novel, Bronze Summer. I did also enjoy how Baxter weaved in the themes of climate change throughout the series, which gave these "historical" accounts a solid link to present day woes. In Iron Winter, I found the characters a little less endearing than in the previous novels, and the story lacked the sentimentality of the first novel. But who knows? Perhaps Baxter is planning yet another sequel to this saga, perhaps set in the future of an alternate timeline to our own?
4824708
This is a good story but moves way too slow.  !!Spoiler alert!!  Four seasons and the little Stark girl is still wandering around the country, the hottie princess is still on the other side of the narrow sea, and the white walkers aren't walking!  Where is it going and how many seasons will it take to get there?  It's all talk, no action. I should have just read the books.
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As A Feast for Crows opens, the War of Five Kings at the center of the last two books has largely ended, with three of the five kings dead.  The series is now moving onto its next stage.  The part of the story focusing on Westeros and, in particular, King's Landing is winding down, and the part of the story focusing on the continent across the Narrow Sea and Daenerys is heating up.  Unfortunately, the sheer scale of the transition material Martin is trying to wade through led him to the decision to shift Daenerys and John's stories back to A Dance with Dragons.

This results in the weakest of the first four books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.  Martin continues the habit of describing relatively unimportant events in excruciating detail while leaving other, major events to happen off-screen but without providing the level of payoff that made it an enhancement in A Storm of Swords.  Several new storylines are introduced, but they merely serve as foreshadowing, fail to resonate, or both.  Martin continues to play around with his style, for example, changing up his POV-chapter title conventions, sometimes using informal titles that sometimes change over the course of the book rather than names.  That being said, the book is still very good and does an admirable job at pushing the story forward in the middle of the story (things have slowed down, but are still moving at a torrid pace in comparison to the middle books in A Wheel of Time).
3853545
I like Iron Man . Robert Downey plays it well. Arrogance , witt and precision masterfully connected.
Story lines are getting sparse for this series and they should think about putting it down before we all suffer.
2927618
They liked them but they all disappeared immediately and haven't found a one of them yet.
980070
If only Robert Jordan had given this series to Brandon Sanderson a decade ago, we'd have finished reading it by now. Unfortunately, the tying up of all the loose ends has sucked up a huge amount of this book and the previous one because Jordan left so many out there. I don't know what he was thinking, but he started enough stories for 20 novels and probably an entire paperback series of side-stories. It was ridiculous. Anyway, after 30 years (or what seems like it) Perrin has finally quit whining, which is something of a miracle. Given how many sub-plots are still out there, it seems like one more book won't be enough to fit the final battle into! But it was enjoyable anyway. Sanderson is far better at keeping the book moving. I don't doubt that even in these last books Jordan would still be shoe-horning new characters in. This is a pretty sloppy review, but since it's for people who are probably going to read it simply because they've read the other 11 books, it's probably enough just to say that you will enjoy the fact that stuff actually happens.
861884
Glen, Really!  Damn!  I guess good guys get eaten too!  I guess the show is winding to a end and there will probably be more main characters will serve up their ass soon!
1951215
The stark shades of colorlessness were most vivid from brilliant light to shadows of dark struck me first. Like we are really there on the surface. The author must have made maps to get from one site to another and back. The end of the book seemed to me to suggest a sequel with the parting of the main characters. I hope one may be forthcoming!!
449840
Bad Bad read, even worse then the last one. I had such hopes left empty and a little upset. Going to have to let this story fade from memory and pretend I never heard of a Stark.
3686157
The War of the Five Kings is drawing to a close, while an even greater war is brewing. "A Feast for Crows" takes place during this slow period between the two major wars. Martin's fourth "Ice and Fire" novel shares more similarities with his first than it does with his second or third. Just as "A Game of Thrones" was mostly about setting things up for the next two novels, so is this one.

Which isn't to say the book is uneventful, but if you're expecting it to be as action-packed as "A Storm of Swords" you'll be disappointed. There's still plenty going on to make the book interesting. Dorne's responding to the murder of Prince Oberyn, Riverrun is under siege from the Freys, Storm's End is under siege from the Tyrells, the Iron Islands are struggling to appoint a new Lord, the Vale is reacting to the murder of its Lady, and the people of Highgarden are struggling to deal with the Queen Regent. Though Tommen sits on the Iron Throne, Cersei Lannister is the one truly ruling the realm.

Martin's writing style - already great in the past books - has gotten even better in this one. His style is often elegant and clever at the same time. Like all the other books, "Feast" features an ensemble cast, but it's notable how the series has gradually moved away from the Starks since beginning. The first book spent about 80% of its time on House Stark and its members. This latest book spends at most 15% of its time on the Starks.

The only major complaint I have is with Brienne. Except for her very last one, Brienne's chapters are a waste of time and paper. Whereas, all the other characters were very gripping and entertaining, Brienne was downright boring. It didn't take long for me to get so bored with her chapters, that I started skipping them. After I finished the book, I went back and read them all, and well, I'm really not sorry for skipping them.

More than a few reviewers have complained about the fact that this volume is missing characters, but those who were following along on Martin's site know there's good reason for that. By the time A Feast for Crows reached 1300 manuscript pages in length, Martin still wasn't finished with the story. The story was far too big to publish in one book, so Martin's only options were: a) to cut A Feast for Crows right at the mid-way point and publish it Volumes 1 & 2, or b) to cut out some of the characters' stories and move them into A Dance with Dragons. Every good story requires a beginning, a middle, a climax, and an ending; had Martin had taken the first approach, the story would have a beginning and a middle, but no climax and no real ending. At least with this approach, the story has *some* closure. So, yes, the story is missing characters - Tyrion, Dany, Jon, Bran, Davos, and Stannis, among others - but they'll be back next year for A Dance with Dragons, the parallel novel to A Feast for Crows.

Overall, this is one of the greatest books I've ever read. Five years was a long time to wait, but it was well worth it. H.L. Mencken once said, "The primary aim of the novel, at all times and everywhere, is the representation of human beings at their follies and villainies, and no other art form clings to that aim so faithfully." His quote perfectly captures the underlying theme of Martin's series. At heart, A Song of Ice and Fire is about war and human brutality; about how so many want power, and the terrible things they'll do to achieve it, sending thousands of men to their deaths and bringing death and destruction upon a whole country just to achieve power.
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This was a great book until the end.  Lots of action, great descriptions of how a sailing ship worked.  Good battle sequences and very interesting characters from the Revolutionary War period.  Then came the end.  It was as if the writer was tired of the book and just ended it.  The main character is destroyed and dies and the ships are gone.  I will not read the rest of the series
660846
The Scarlet Witch's husband has been disassembled, reassembled and Simon refuses to share his brain patterns to provide the personality for Vision again. Meanwhile, William and Thomas' disappearances continue, only leading to the truth that they were never "real". Plus, the return of the original Human Torch and Tony Stark.
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People are disappearing and there are people looking into it.  Great action and mystery in this story.  Robert and Aileen are thrown together working on solving the crime of slavery.  Of course in the process they fall in love and will be working on their happy ever.  The next 2 stories will finish the story can't wait to read them.
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I agree with many others reviewing this book, and the series as a whole. I was really into the series with the first two books, though I was very angry about the Red Wedding (was the book 2 or 3?) and the knocking out of Robb and Catlyn from the game of thrones. They were wonderful characters that deserved more ink. By the third book I was getting bored with the plot, which seems to have gone very far astray, as has many of the characters, and began to wonder why the author was introducing so many minor characters that add nothing to the original story. Speaking of too many characters, and the lost plot, killing off interesting characters and not speaking of some others only left me wondering what was the point of book 4? I'm almost at the end and feel cheated. I will not bother continuing on. Mr. Martin, I just don't care anymore.
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I would really really recommended this book for anyone that loves game of thrones. The problem I have with the book is that I have had the book for a month and 6 days and the headband on the book is falling apart. Its a shame because the book and reading everything is amazing. I've kept really good care of the book and its a shame its falling apart in about a month.