AFFC
So, I finished A Feast for Crows a few days ago and this is my review ^^
I feel like I read a lot of pages and nothing happened. People told me this book had a lot of Greyjoys and Dorne but it didn't seem that way to me... it had a LOT of Cersei, Jaime and Brienne though. Not enough Arya and Sansa, but nothing exciting happened to them either, so..(especially to Arya whose storyline here was boring as fuck.)
I think it'd be easier to review if I break it down by characters, so.
Greyjoys
Meh? Reading those chapters wasn't as unbearable as people made me fear but I don't see what so special about the Greyjoys either. So, they chose a king who will bring them the dragons so they can conquer the kingdom like in the olden times, and in the end Victarion goes to find Dany. My gues is that Asha is going to reunite with Theon somehow?
Dorne
This wasn't as bad as people told me either... so the Sand Snakes want revenge and the Prince doesn't want to piss the royalty off, so he locks them up. Arianne tries to crown Myrcella and the Prince finds out and locks her up, then he explains everything to her. He sent his son to find Dany so they can marry and beat the royalty. Everyone wants to marry Dany. Also, Myrcella is wounded.
Cersei
I got tired really quick of Cersei's pov. Every chapter was about her making really stupid decisions, being paranoid and falling slowly into madness. I got the gist of her chapters pretty early on, so whenever I read her name after finishing someone else's pov I was like *sigh*. I don't think any kind of character annoys me more than Stupid Decisions characters (NED) and Cersei was like, the worst. It was different when I wasn't reading her pov since at least I could appreciate her as the kind of character you love to hate. But when you see things from her perspective, and she thinks she's so smart it's like omgggg someone stop her. I feel like the only important+interesting thing that happened in her pov chapters (and in the whole book, actually) was the Margaery scheme fiasco.
About the prophecy, my theory/guess is that either the valonqar or the younger prettier girl who would take everything away from her is not who she thinks (or both, but expecially the younger prettier etc.). The girl could be Dany instead of Margaery, and the younger brother... idk, is Jaime younger than her? lol
Brienne
Walking a lot and getting nowhere, like Arya did before. It wasn't that boring to me, but in the end I feel like nothing happened during Brienne's chapters. And Zombie Cat, ugh. I hated Cat in the first book, then I liked her from the 2nd book on (and the tv show made me like her too). But this Lady Stoneheart =_=. I understand that this is probably not exactly her 100% but still...
Sam
Sam leaves the Wall with Eli and delivers Aemon's message about Dragons to maesters in Oldtown. Better than Cersei's chapters, at least he was going somewhere (and actually got there).
Arya
This was even worse than Jon's chapters in ASoS to me. Arya thinks what everyone is thinking (that it seems like she never reaches the places she wants to reach) and gets stuck in a boring as fuck Black and White Temple or something. What is even worse is that some good old man tells her that she has to leave everything behind if she wants to stay and become a novice (looks like this is where Jaqen learned to change his face and kill people), and instead of leaving she's like YEAH LET'S DO IT and then she becomes a servant again. That is, until she kills the guy from the Night's Watch (I'm not sure I understood what happened there, actually) and the good old man gives her some milk that leaves her blind. So not only she's stuck in Boringasfuckland, she's also blind now.
Jaime
I was fine with Jaime's pov until Cersei sent him to Riverrun. But it wasn't that bad. Nothing much happened there, he conquered the castle and it seems like he's going to die fighting for Cersei (that is, if his love for her is stronger than his pride). But wait, even if he doesn't die fighting for Cersei, Brienne would kill him... would she? Maybe they'll run into each other in the road to King's Landing. Or maybe not, since these days in ASOIAF people never run into each other when they're main characters.
Sansa
She was pretending to be Littlefinger's daughter the whole time and learning how to lie and scheme I guess. The way people talk about her character arc, one would think her personality does a 180 degree change and she becomes the HBIC slapping people left and right, but she's barely in the book and she's still pretty passive and powerless. I don't think that's bad (except for the barely being in the book part) That seems more natural to me given her personality, like becoming more mature with everything that happened to her and keeping everything inside to survive. It's just not the BAMF people made me believe it'd be. Also, I kept wishing she just left Littlefinger or something... I just wanted her out of that place because being stuck there was so damn boring. They gave such boring storylines to my faves, sigh.
And that's it. See, lots of text and nothing happened in this book. It's funny because AFFC has more characters I like, but I think I'll like DwD better :o
I feel like I read a lot of pages and nothing happened. People told me this book had a lot of Greyjoys and Dorne but it didn't seem that way to me... it had a LOT of Cersei, Jaime and Brienne though. Not enough Arya and Sansa, but nothing exciting happened to them either, so..(especially to Arya whose storyline here was boring as fuck.)
I think it'd be easier to review if I break it down by characters, so.
Greyjoys
Meh? Reading those chapters wasn't as unbearable as people made me fear but I don't see what so special about the Greyjoys either. So, they chose a king who will bring them the dragons so they can conquer the kingdom like in the olden times, and in the end Victarion goes to find Dany. My gues is that Asha is going to reunite with Theon somehow?
Dorne
This wasn't as bad as people told me either... so the Sand Snakes want revenge and the Prince doesn't want to piss the royalty off, so he locks them up. Arianne tries to crown Myrcella and the Prince finds out and locks her up, then he explains everything to her. He sent his son to find Dany so they can marry and beat the royalty. Everyone wants to marry Dany. Also, Myrcella is wounded.
Cersei
I got tired really quick of Cersei's pov. Every chapter was about her making really stupid decisions, being paranoid and falling slowly into madness. I got the gist of her chapters pretty early on, so whenever I read her name after finishing someone else's pov I was like *sigh*. I don't think any kind of character annoys me more than Stupid Decisions characters (NED) and Cersei was like, the worst. It was different when I wasn't reading her pov since at least I could appreciate her as the kind of character you love to hate. But when you see things from her perspective, and she thinks she's so smart it's like omgggg someone stop her. I feel like the only important+interesting thing that happened in her pov chapters (and in the whole book, actually) was the Margaery scheme fiasco.
About the prophecy, my theory/guess is that either the valonqar or the younger prettier girl who would take everything away from her is not who she thinks (or both, but expecially the younger prettier etc.). The girl could be Dany instead of Margaery, and the younger brother... idk, is Jaime younger than her? lol
Brienne
Walking a lot and getting nowhere, like Arya did before. It wasn't that boring to me, but in the end I feel like nothing happened during Brienne's chapters. And Zombie Cat, ugh. I hated Cat in the first book, then I liked her from the 2nd book on (and the tv show made me like her too). But this Lady Stoneheart =_=. I understand that this is probably not exactly her 100% but still...
Sam
Sam leaves the Wall with Eli and delivers Aemon's message about Dragons to maesters in Oldtown. Better than Cersei's chapters, at least he was going somewhere (and actually got there).
Arya
This was even worse than Jon's chapters in ASoS to me. Arya thinks what everyone is thinking (that it seems like she never reaches the places she wants to reach) and gets stuck in a boring as fuck Black and White Temple or something. What is even worse is that some good old man tells her that she has to leave everything behind if she wants to stay and become a novice (looks like this is where Jaqen learned to change his face and kill people), and instead of leaving she's like YEAH LET'S DO IT and then she becomes a servant again. That is, until she kills the guy from the Night's Watch (I'm not sure I understood what happened there, actually) and the good old man gives her some milk that leaves her blind. So not only she's stuck in Boringasfuckland, she's also blind now.
Jaime
I was fine with Jaime's pov until Cersei sent him to Riverrun. But it wasn't that bad. Nothing much happened there, he conquered the castle and it seems like he's going to die fighting for Cersei (that is, if his love for her is stronger than his pride). But wait, even if he doesn't die fighting for Cersei, Brienne would kill him... would she? Maybe they'll run into each other in the road to King's Landing. Or maybe not, since these days in ASOIAF people never run into each other when they're main characters.
Sansa
She was pretending to be Littlefinger's daughter the whole time and learning how to lie and scheme I guess. The way people talk about her character arc, one would think her personality does a 180 degree change and she becomes the HBIC slapping people left and right, but she's barely in the book and she's still pretty passive and powerless. I don't think that's bad (except for the barely being in the book part) That seems more natural to me given her personality, like becoming more mature with everything that happened to her and keeping everything inside to survive. It's just not the BAMF people made me believe it'd be. Also, I kept wishing she just left Littlefinger or something... I just wanted her out of that place because being stuck there was so damn boring. They gave such boring storylines to my faves, sigh.
And that's it. See, lots of text and nothing happened in this book. It's funny because AFFC has more characters I like, but I think I'll like DwD better :o