A Feast For Crows
Mar. 22nd, 2006 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichelefFinally finished A Feast For Crows last night...
First off, I really need to go back and re-read the first 3 books for this one to make any damn sense, really. I was discussing this very fact with M last night - he's finally succumbed and is about halfway through A Game of Thrones.
Generally, I feel unsatisfied, as I have at the end of each of the books. He says in the author's note at the end that he finished the plotlines of these characters, but did he really? OK, Sam's going to forge his chain. But what about Gilly? He left her aboard the Cinnamon Wind with the baby. What about taking her to stay with his mother? Cersei is right where she belongs, locked up. I do love that Jaime is leaving her there. Poor Tommen... Arya is being an acolyte in Braavos, Sansa is being brainwashed by Petyr (I *really* want to know where that particular plotline is going to end up...). But nobody's REALLY done, except the people who are now dead. Ah, the curse of reading book series before they're complete. Especially ones like this, where they really aren't discrete episodes. It's not like HP, where the books are able to stand on their own - you just might be missing a bit of context/backstory.
I guess that's not much of a review, is it? Oh well...
First off, I really need to go back and re-read the first 3 books for this one to make any damn sense, really. I was discussing this very fact with M last night - he's finally succumbed and is about halfway through A Game of Thrones.
Generally, I feel unsatisfied, as I have at the end of each of the books. He says in the author's note at the end that he finished the plotlines of these characters, but did he really? OK, Sam's going to forge his chain. But what about Gilly? He left her aboard the Cinnamon Wind with the baby. What about taking her to stay with his mother? Cersei is right where she belongs, locked up. I do love that Jaime is leaving her there. Poor Tommen... Arya is being an acolyte in Braavos, Sansa is being brainwashed by Petyr (I *really* want to know where that particular plotline is going to end up...). But nobody's REALLY done, except the people who are now dead. Ah, the curse of reading book series before they're complete. Especially ones like this, where they really aren't discrete episodes. It's not like HP, where the books are able to stand on their own - you just might be missing a bit of context/backstory.
I guess that's not much of a review, is it? Oh well...
