Feast for Crows and
Dance with Dragons by George R.R.
Martin, 1060 pages and 1016 pages
These are books four and five in Martins, Song of Ice and Fire series. From
talking with coworkers and checking online I became aware that Feast for Crows and Dance with Dragons take place concurrently. As it happens, they
were originally designed to be one book but as Martin was writing he realized
that a 2000 page book was out of the question. This led to his choice on how to
split the books. Unlike what most authors do, he chose to split the book in
half by characters. So Feast for Crows
has the chapters for all of the Southern Westros characters and Arya, and Dance with Dragons has the Wall and the
Eastern lands.
Before I began reading I had decided to read them together as
Martin had intended. To aid me I found a chapter listing online that put them
in order in time. The guide even went out of its way to reorder a couple
chapters to save plot twists that would have been revealed. Reading both books
and hopping back and forth between them made for slow progress but I think a
more enjoyable experience overall.
Sadly I must now join the millions of people out there that
are waiting for the next installment of Song
of Ice and Fire and the publisher just announced not to expect it till at
least 2015…
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