"Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best.... [He] is a tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting plotter and a deft and inexhaustible sketcher of personalities.... This is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien."โ*Time Magazine
"The only fantast series I'd put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Ringsโฆ. _It's a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who don't read fantasyโฆ. If you're new to the series, you must begin with Book 1,A Game of Thrones. Once you're hookedโฆ. you'll be like the rest of us fans, gnawing your knuckles until book 5โโMarta Salij, _Detroit Free Press*
โTHE MOST impressive modern fantasy, both in terms of conception and execution, is George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire**.** โฆ A masterpiece that will be mentioned with the great works of fantasy.โโ Contra Costa Times
"Long-awaited doesnโt begin to describe this fourth installment in bestseller Martin's staggeringly epic Song of Ice and Fire."โ Publishers Weekly
"Grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant."โRobert Jordan
"Such a splendid tale and such a fantistorical! I read my eyes out."โAnne McCaffrey
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_"Fantasy fans will feast!"โ Associated Press
From the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Long-awaited doesn't begin to describe this 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 facesโnotably Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryenโare 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. (Nov.)
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From Library Journal
In the fourth volume of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga, the evil king is finally dead-and trouble is starting to brew.
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