Personally Martin books have bumped their way up to my 2nd favorite series/author (Robin Hobb's Farseer being my favorite).
I avoided reading them for years, since I figured they were terrible like Jordan's Wheel of Time, the popular fantasy I don't like (now that's a series where I feel like nothing ever happens).
I re-read a series whenever a new book comes out - I read fast, but man, did it take a while to get through volumes 1-4 in time for Dance this time. Whew.
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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
The main story bearers, who were also the most interesting characters, Jon, Tyrion, and Daenerys were all absent, in that not one of them is used as a point of view.
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I think I agree that Feast for Crows is the weakest book...but this is mainly why. He ended up splicing half of a book for Feast - Fan-favorite characters are all missing, and most of the book is spent on people you love to hate, or at least feel some disgust with - like Cersei, Jaimie, Theon. The Greyjoys especially irritated me in Feast.
Read together with Dance, Feast isn't so bad. I almost wish you could chop up the chapters and re-distribute some of Dance into Feast and vice versa - less time with the aggravating people would make it more palatable. Still, I enjoyed Feast and didn't have any major complaints, except that I wanted more Tyrion and Jon and whoever.
Still my 2nd favorite series for now.