Like her father, Cersei is cunning and manipulative, though she lacks Tywin’s judgment. She is also deeply paranoid of any threat to her rule, not to mention the lives of her children, and she is haunted by a prophecy she was told as a girl: that a younger and more beautiful queen would replace her and take everything she loves. When A Feast for Crows begins, Cersei is awoken in the middle of the night and is told of her father’s death. She walks to the Tower of the Hand and discovers, to her irritation, that she was not even the first person told of the Hand’s murder. She has been preceded by her twin brother, the Lord Commander of the King’s Guard, Jaime.

The court at King’s Landing holds a funeral in Lord Tywin’s honor, one that is ruined by the strong scent of Tywin’s decay. Cersei is furious throughout the funeral. Her son, King Tommen, cries in front of his lords, and Tommen’s betrothed, the beautiful and popularly admired Margaery of House Tyrell, puts on a show of mourning, though Cersei does not believe it. Looking at her father’s corpse, the Queen Regent resolves to rule the realm so that Tywin will be remembered not as a great Hand of the King or even as a great lord, but rather as the father of Queen Cersei.

At this point in the book Cersei starts losing her mind she befriends potential enemies to be able to better her fight against the new queen Margaery. She gets Margaery's maid to tell her the queen’s secrets. I think that she is pretty stupid for doing that and she is really playing with fire.

In the far east, Daenerys Targaryen has conquered the city of Meereen, but struggles to maintain peace within the city, while also trying to prevent military defeat. A plague known as the bloody flux or "pale mare" is discovered, whereas her dragons have killed livestock and people, for which she reluctantly confines them to a cage (with the exception of Drogon, who evades capture). Daenerys marries the noble Hizdahr zo Loraq, despite her sexual relationship with the mercenary Daario Naharis, to stop a series of murders by a Meereenese resistance called the Sons of the Harpy, and avert a planned attack by Yunkai and Volantis. Despite the plague-infected refugees outside, the fighting pits are opened shortly after the wedding, at Hizdahr's insistence and interrupted by Drogon. 200 people are trampled in the resulting panic or killed by the dragon, at which point Daenerys climbs on Drogon to calm him, who flies to his lair with Daenerys still on him. After Hizdahr is implicated in an attempted poisoning of Daenerys, Barristan Selmy removes him from power and prepares for battle with the armies outside Meereen. Quentyn Martell, Prince of Dorne, attempts to steal one of the remaining dragons, but suffers fatal burns, and both dragons are unleashed upon the city. Drogon flies Daenerys to the Dothraki Sea, where she encounters the khalasar of Khal Jhaqo, a former subordinate to Khal Drogo, who betrayed her after Drogo's death. Meanwhile, Victarion Greyjoy sails for Meereen, to save Daenerys by attacking the slavers' alliance besieging Meereen. Victarion's hope is that in gratitude, Daenerys will marry him, and with the aid of her dragons he will overthrow his brother King Euron.

Dany continues her conquest across the narrow sea which continues to be a better part of the book. I have enjoyed this book thoroughly and Have come to really enjoy it and I highly recommend it.

A Feast for Crows is the fourth novel in George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. When the previous novel, A Storm of Swords, ended, Tyrion Lannister killed his father, Tywin. Lord Tywin Lannister had not only been one of the most powerful lords in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros but had also been the Hand of the King, the most powerful member of King Tommen’s small council. Since King Tommen is still a boy, Tywin had been the true ruler of the Westeros. Now, his responsibilities fall to his daughter, Cersei Lannister, the Queen. The Vale is not the only part of the realm to suffer upheaval. In the deep south of Westeros, the people of Dorne demand vengeance of their lord, Prince Doran. In the previous novel, Doran’s brother, Prince Oberyn, the Red Viper, died in combat defending Tyrion Lannister against Gregor Clegane. Doran suffers from gout, and he hides his weakness by ruling from the Water Gardens rather than at the court at Sunspear. Doran’s daughter, Arianne, runs the court at Sunspear, an important task since Princess Myrcella is staying there. Arianne, however, wants vengeance for Prince Oberyn’s death, and she hatches a scheme to crown Myrcella and invade the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. Her plot fails and she is imprisoned. However, when she finally is granted an audience with her father, she learns that Doran does mean to exact vengeance on the Lannisters. He has in fact been conspiring to support the return of Daenerys Targaryen, the rightful Queen of Westeros. Regent of Westeros.

When reading A Song of Ice and Fire you soon get into the George R. R. Martin routine. Nothing happens for ages and then loads of people die. The first book of A Feast for Crows follows a similar vein but with surprisingly few deaths. Which just leaves the large spaces of nothing happens.

That is not to say it is not enjoyable. The large amount of nothing that happens in each novel is politically interesting and the constant changing between characters keeps things fresh. I enjoyed the last book more though. Perhaps it’s all building up for the second half.

As I mentioned in my post about part one  most A Song of Ice and Fire novels follow a predictable format of not a lot happening then a bunch of people dying. Again in part two though, there were not actually that many deaths.

George R. R. Martin has never been one for going over dramatic. The Red Wedding was a series finale in the TV series, but was just a part of the story in A Storm of Swords and while brutal, he never went into much detail or spent much time on it. Parts of A Feast for Crows felt similar – it would look much more dramatic on screen than it is written in the book.

So far this book is a very interesting read i am about halfway done and want to continue reading it.