feast for crows
Oct. 4th, 2011 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideFinished.
So that's done. I've started Dance with Dragons, but I'll comment on that separately.
FfC was a tough book to get through. First, there were all the Greyjoy chapters to suffer past, by skimming largely. And then ...nothing much seemed to happen. Especially after the flurry of SCREAMING BIG EVENTS in A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows felt like a letdown.
And I knew that half the character arcs would be missing, and thought gleefully that it would be okay since Dance with Dragons was already out. But the book felt so incomplete. And the knowledge that I was just going to be going back in time to read about things that had already happened, but from a different perspective is a bummer.
Not to mention the hilarity of GRRM's note at the end of FfC, back in 2005, where he says that the next book will hopefully be out in a year.
So, what happened even?
- Euron Greyjoy is king. And I don't care. Don't know if I believe his horn can control dragons.
- Cersei is hoisted with her own petard. That was satisfying to read about. As was Jamie putting her letter for help into the fire.
- Curious to see how badly things are going to get fucked up with the Faith of the Seven.
- I was convinced Cersei was going to murder Tommen's kittens and was glad that didn't happen.
- I still don't know if I love or trust Margaery outside of enjoying watching her thwart Cersei. Hope she gets out of her dungeon okay.
- I never felt connected to Loras Tyrell so his injury didn't have much impact on me. He seems decent, enough. We'll see if he lives.
- Though I feel if he dies, his character was sort of a weird waste.
- I did like seeing Jamie's decency and desire to uphold his oath to Catelyn. I was glad when Blackfish escaped, too.
- Brienne. Oh, Brienne. I do nothing but worry about you. HATE that we don't know what happens to her, hate that sort of plot-dangle, when maybe we won't know until the 6th book? Unless some cross-over character-timeline-thingie works to tell us in DwD.
Tangent: One of the things I've liked about the books is that they each felt very satisfying and left characters at the start of a new interesting plot point, versus just leaving us hanging. Or maybe it just felt that way since I've torn through the first 4 books so fast?
- Petyr continues to absolutely gross me out, however clever he is. Nice to see Sansa at least learning and starting to see things more cleverly.
- Cannot wait for Robert Arryn to die. What a miserable and wretched existence.
- Dorne: I was interested at first, but totally did not care by the end. In reading the Wikipedia summary of FfC I see that there's some greater secret plan with Quentyn, which I totally missed because I was skimming so much of those chapters.
- So Pate is clearly Jaqen H’ghar. Curious to see where that goes.
- I refuse to believe Arya is blind until I see more proof.
And that was all, right? Meh.
So that's done. I've started Dance with Dragons, but I'll comment on that separately.
FfC was a tough book to get through. First, there were all the Greyjoy chapters to suffer past, by skimming largely. And then ...nothing much seemed to happen. Especially after the flurry of SCREAMING BIG EVENTS in A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows felt like a letdown.
And I knew that half the character arcs would be missing, and thought gleefully that it would be okay since Dance with Dragons was already out. But the book felt so incomplete. And the knowledge that I was just going to be going back in time to read about things that had already happened, but from a different perspective is a bummer.
Not to mention the hilarity of GRRM's note at the end of FfC, back in 2005, where he says that the next book will hopefully be out in a year.
So, what happened even?
- Euron Greyjoy is king. And I don't care. Don't know if I believe his horn can control dragons.
- Cersei is hoisted with her own petard. That was satisfying to read about. As was Jamie putting her letter for help into the fire.
- Curious to see how badly things are going to get fucked up with the Faith of the Seven.
- I was convinced Cersei was going to murder Tommen's kittens and was glad that didn't happen.
- I still don't know if I love or trust Margaery outside of enjoying watching her thwart Cersei. Hope she gets out of her dungeon okay.
- I never felt connected to Loras Tyrell so his injury didn't have much impact on me. He seems decent, enough. We'll see if he lives.
- Though I feel if he dies, his character was sort of a weird waste.
- I did like seeing Jamie's decency and desire to uphold his oath to Catelyn. I was glad when Blackfish escaped, too.
- Brienne. Oh, Brienne. I do nothing but worry about you. HATE that we don't know what happens to her, hate that sort of plot-dangle, when maybe we won't know until the 6th book? Unless some cross-over character-timeline-thingie works to tell us in DwD.
Tangent: One of the things I've liked about the books is that they each felt very satisfying and left characters at the start of a new interesting plot point, versus just leaving us hanging. Or maybe it just felt that way since I've torn through the first 4 books so fast?
- Petyr continues to absolutely gross me out, however clever he is. Nice to see Sansa at least learning and starting to see things more cleverly.
- Cannot wait for Robert Arryn to die. What a miserable and wretched existence.
- Dorne: I was interested at first, but totally did not care by the end. In reading the Wikipedia summary of FfC I see that there's some greater secret plan with Quentyn, which I totally missed because I was skimming so much of those chapters.
- So Pate is clearly Jaqen H’ghar. Curious to see where that goes.
- I refuse to believe Arya is blind until I see more proof.
And that was all, right? Meh.
