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Well, this is it. The last of the Song of Ice and Fire series that has been written so far. Now I'm just going to be biting my nails until the next one comes out like everyone else.
After getting off to a somewhat rough start, A Feast for Crows sucked me in just as thoroughly as its predecessors. It was, however, an infinitely more frustrating read. While for the most part it lacked the Terrible Plot Developments that so infuriated me in previous books, it was chock full of cliffhangers that, for the most part, won't be resolved until the sixth book in the series, who knows how many years down the line. Because of the author's (frankly questionable) decision to divide the fourth and fifth books geographically--that is, book 4 tells the stories of the characters in the north, while book 5 will deal with the characters in the south--many of my favorite characters weren't featured at all, and those who were won't be featured in the next book. This makes the many life-or-death cliffhangers infinitely more nerve-wracking than if I just had to wait until the next book for resolution.
I find myself suddenly at loose ends with regards to what to read next. After a month spent living in this fully-realized world with characters to whom I've become way more attached than is probably healthy, I can't imagine that anything else is quite going to live up to these books. I'm halfway tempted to go purchase the whole series for myself and reread them all from the beginning, but I should probably wait until book 5 has a release date. Right now I'm tear-assing my way through Valley of the Dolls, which has made for... a strange transition, to say the least. After that... well, thanks to tax refund + new job I'm once again in the position to buy books and have my biggest worry be where to put them after I've finished, so if anyone has any stellar recommendations for books that will make me miss my subway stop, I'm all ears.
After getting off to a somewhat rough start, A Feast for Crows sucked me in just as thoroughly as its predecessors. It was, however, an infinitely more frustrating read. While for the most part it lacked the Terrible Plot Developments that so infuriated me in previous books, it was chock full of cliffhangers that, for the most part, won't be resolved until the sixth book in the series, who knows how many years down the line. Because of the author's (frankly questionable) decision to divide the fourth and fifth books geographically--that is, book 4 tells the stories of the characters in the north, while book 5 will deal with the characters in the south--many of my favorite characters weren't featured at all, and those who were won't be featured in the next book. This makes the many life-or-death cliffhangers infinitely more nerve-wracking than if I just had to wait until the next book for resolution.
I find myself suddenly at loose ends with regards to what to read next. After a month spent living in this fully-realized world with characters to whom I've become way more attached than is probably healthy, I can't imagine that anything else is quite going to live up to these books. I'm halfway tempted to go purchase the whole series for myself and reread them all from the beginning, but I should probably wait until book 5 has a release date. Right now I'm tear-assing my way through Valley of the Dolls, which has made for... a strange transition, to say the least. After that... well, thanks to tax refund + new job I'm once again in the position to buy books and have my biggest worry be where to put them after I've finished, so if anyone has any stellar recommendations for books that will make me miss my subway stop, I'm all ears.
