A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)

#681

Title: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam
Year: 2005/2011
1060 pages

Mistaken identities, misperceptions, and incorrect assumptions drawn from partial facts form the thematic core of this volume. There is some action, and some characters arrive at something like a destination. There is a sense of Martin shuffling his pieces into place. Violence, sex, and violent sex seem more frequent and offer less insight into characters. There is much here to invoke the classic exchange from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

Large Man with Dead Body: Who's that then?
The Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king.
Large Man with Dead Body: Why?
The Dead Collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.