Volus Warlord wrote...
TJPags wrote...
chunkyman wrote...
Just finished book 4, it was great! I heard people say that it sucked, but I found it quite enjoyable (although a little slow at times).
Book 4 wasn't actually a bad book.
The problem I think most people had with it was the lack of certain characters appearing - no Dany, no Jon, no Bran, no Tyrion, etc. It was, actually, half a book, and the absence of those characters made it FEEL like half a book. Especially if those were your favorite characters, and/or if you dislike greatly the ones who appear in Feast. The fact that people may not have liked the newly introduced POV characters probably wouldn't have helped.
However, for the story lines it DID include, I thought it was right on par with the other books in the series - which is to say, first rate.
Cersei is what makes Book 4. Sad as it sounds.
You know, I dislike Cersei immensely - have since Book 1 - but I agree, her POV's, that storyline, carried a lot of book 4 for me. Which surprised the hell out of me.
Foopydoopydoo wrote...
Mercannis wrote...
The only parts that dragged where the Chapters that Brienne assumed centerstage, i mean it just dragged on and on and on....it was a test of my willpower to finish each PoV involving her.
I like Brienne as a character but MAN can her POV drag. Have I mentioned I felt bad when she got half her face chewed off? Because I do. Feel bad that is.
Random, but does anyone else wonder what exactly is the point of Penny in these books? I mean I'm all for Tyrion finding love or whatever but Mr. Martin hasn't given me the idea that he caters to his characters, so why the utterly random female dwarf especially for Tyrion? Totally expecting her to die some awful death just as Tyrion starts really liking her. Pushing him ever closer to the brink of bitter insanity and possible suicide.
Oh. Over on the official boards they have this interesting theory that Dany is the paper dragon, I forget the details now but yeah. They have a LOT of theories over there. -SPOILER- Oh and Sandor isn't dead.
And yup, this is what I mean, Brienne's storyline dragged BADLY. Her character as a whole doesn't appeal to me, and her usefullness ran its course rather early on. The fact that she got so much "air time" is, of course, due to other charcters having been cut and left for Book 5. Spaced evenly throughout both books, I might have tolerated her more . . .but in contrast, I may not have enjoyed the Cersie storyline as much if it wasn't so prominent.
As to Penny . . . beats the crap out of me. Some moral tale, I imagine, about untintended consequences or karma or something. I never understand those things . .. .
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