Alright, we have a dozen threads for Harry Potter alone, threads for the Lord of the Rings and CS Lewis, how can we not have a thread for one of the greatest series of all time when the next book in the series just came out?

A Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin.

Sad that none of my old favorites are in there (with the exception of Arya, my absolute favorite, who gets a few chapters and one other who makes a cameo but I won't mention because it is a spoiler), but I'm excited to know that the next book will focus on the ones I care the most about.

That, and by the end of the book I was entirely caught up in the plot, never mind the characters being followed.

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A Song of Ice and Fire is one of my favorite fantasy series, ever. And I agree that A Feast for Crows didn't really have any of the characters I care about, except Arya and Jaime. Still the plot was great, and I love the last chapter in Dorne...mmmmforshadowingmmm.

i love soif. but so far all ive read of affc's is the first chapter, whilst in a book store.
i was alot cheaper to get it online, but unfortunately what i ordered it with is taking longer than previously thought, so i havent gotten it yet.
arya is by far my favourite character, so im glad she gets a mention in this book unlike several of the other main ones.

Arya only has 3 (or was it 4?) chapters in this book, unfortunately. I don't believe we're going to see her in ADWD so we're going to have to wait until book 6 to see her again. There are some really wonderful crackpot theories coming out of this book, including some very interesting speculation on Jamie and Cersei, and on what happens to Brienne in book 6 (she had a really BAD day in this one...). This series has been great so far and it's fun to go back and go through the older books as each new one comes out to catch hints and clues to things that happened, and to try to piece together what's going to happen next book. He makes speculation as much fun as the story itself. :P

That one and the last chapter in the Eyrie ^.^

I doubt this.

Martin has said explicitly that the next book will cover explicitly what is going on across the narrow sea. It will cover the North (Bran, Davos, Jon, etc) and the east (Daenerys). Arya is presently located in Braavos, which is one of the nine free cities and qualifies as "across the narrow sea."

According to westeros.org: "A Dance with Dragons, focusing on events in the North and on the eastern continent, will feature Arya, Bran, Daenerys, Davos, Jon, and Tyrion. No other characters have been said to be it, though one can assume a new prologue character given the previous novels."

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"'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. " -- R. A. Heinlein

Did you just compare these to Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia?

Yeah, that one's great too. ^.^

Yes! I needs me my Tyrion (he's one of my favorite characters.)

I've never see it!
Anyone know what are the coutries where we can see it!
I read in the internet the story and, yes i like it!

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Burning my dreams..

I'd be a bit curious why Arya had chapters in this book if he plans on also having her in the other book, BUT considering that she only had a couple chapters in this one I won't complain at all if she does have a few more in ADWD.

And the last Eyrie chapter was very interesting, I wonder if Littlefinger realizes that his repeated "lessons" for Sansa are actually sinking in. She's starting to learn, and I suspect he's really going to regret that later...

I didn't in my post above, though I believe it is better than the The Lord of the Rings as a work of the Epic Fantasy (The Lord of the Rings being somewhat put on a pedestal because it brought the genre into contemporary literature, but criticizing it as a literary work I dislike how black-or-white the characters are, along with some other elements, but that's a separate debate).

Narnia is the wrong kind of story. Comparing the two would be like comparing Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series with Roald Dahl's books.

Amazon.com for the US is selling it, and I believe they ship internationally. I don't know what all languages it is translated into though or what countries around the world are selling it.


*MILD SPOILERS*

My guess is because she was a useful element to resolve the Samwell-Dareon storylines. The only real point of interaction between the across-the-narrow-sea storyline, the southern-storyline, and the north-storyline was their time in Braavos, which was necessary for Maester Aemon to hear about Daenerys, in order to set up getting that his words to Grandmaester Malgwyn.

By resolving the Samwell-Dareon storyline as far as Braavos goes, he doesn't have to resolve it in the next book and can use the Arya cliffhanger between books instead of between chapters. It also keeps there from needing to be a reminder in the book of exactly who Dareon is and why he is there or what he is doing.

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"'Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. " -- R. A. Heinlein