4.0 / 5
Year
2005
Publisher
Bantam Spectra
ISBN
978-0553801507
Fiction
A Feast for Crows
by George R.R. Martin
The camera pulls in closer—less fireworks, more slow corrosion and the feeling that the game has already ruined everyone playing it.
Geek’s cut
Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.
Deeper dive
People call it slower, but that’s kind of the point: it’s the hangover book. The battles are mostly off‑screen; what you get instead is political debt and psychological damage rendered in uncomfortable detail.
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