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This one is another, lesser sequel. It's fine waiting room material, but I think it's only psychological momentum that will make me read the next volume. I didn't find A Feast for Crows all that much fun to read. A number of the regular POV characters from this series are absent in this volume. This was a choice by Mr. Martin to keep the book a reasonable size, and the missing characters will be telling their stories in the next installment. The problem is, almost all of my favorites fall into that category. So it was a slog to read through those sections about characters I don't really like. (Though Mr. Martin did do a good job of adding some depth and internal conflict to one of those.) The overall saga progressed, but it really seemed to drag.

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Labels: GeorgeRRMartin, SongOfIceAndFire, WaitingRoomMaterial

// posted by John @ 8:09 PM