A Feast for Crows - first US edition
by George R. R Martin - signed
The fourth installment in bestseller Martin's
staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire. Speculation has run rampant since the
previous entry, A Storm of Swords, appeared in 2000, and Feast teases at the
important questions but offers few solid answers. As the book begins, Brienne of
Tarth is looking for Lady Catelyn's daughters, Queen Cersei is losing her mind
and Arya Stark is training with the Faceless Men of Braavos; all three wind up
in cliffhangers that would do justice to any soap opera. Meanwhile, other
familiar faces—notably Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen—are
glaringly absent though promised to return in book five. Martin's Web site
explains that Feast and the forthcoming A Dance of Dragons were written as one
book and split after they grew too big for one volume, and it shows. This is not
Act I Scene 4 but Act II Scene 1, laying groundwork more than advancing the
plot, and it sorely misses its other half. The slim pickings here are tasty, but
in no way satisfying.
Fine unread copy. Scarlet red boards quarter-bound with matching cloth, signed
by the author on the title page. Numerous maps.