Last night I finished reading A Feast for Crows. The fourth book in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga. For those who watch the HBO show and have not read the books, don't worry I won't spoil anything. You are safe with me.
I'll take each house and give a brief overview on where they start off in this book. I'll start with House Lannister. The book begins and you see House Lannister in disarray. After the events of the third book "A Storm of Swords", you see that the Lannisters are very divided. One thing I love about this book is that it has Cersei point of view chapters so you see how crazy her mind is. Basically her chapters chronicle her descent into madness. she grows increasingly paranoid she thinks everybody is out to get her. Also you see Jaime try to redeem himself more. Towards the end of the third book you see him start to become a good character. That continues in A Feast for Crows as he continues to redeem his honor. Tyrion is not in this book, but I'll talk more about that later.
The Greyjoy's are also a house divided. In the books Balon Greyjoy is dead. I just want to point that out because I've heard in the show he's still alive. He died in the book before the Red Wedding. His brothers and his daughter are trying to settle who is Balon's heir to the Seastone Chair.
The Starks are still scattered, Winterfell is still in ruin. Bran isn't in this book. The Starks that are featured in the book are Sansa and Arya. It's tricky because they go by different names to hide themselves from their enemies.
Finally we are introduced more to the Martells of Dorne. We met the Red Viper in book three but we find out more about them, who they are, and what Dorne is like. One thing worth pointing out is that women have status in Dorne. you may remember in book two "A Clash of Kings" Tyrion sent princess Myrcella to Dorne and the Dornishmen believe her to be Joffrey's heir.
A Feast for Crows does take awhile to get going and compared to the previous book there's a lower body count. Six characters died, one more is dying, and two imprisoned. I'm going to give A Feast for Crows 4.5 out of 5 stars because my favorite characters are not in it. George R.R. Martin originally was writing more chapters when he decided the book was too long. So he split them. A Feast for Crows mainly focuses on the events of King's Landing. While A Dance with Dragons focuses on events in the East and on the Wall. That is why Tyrion, Stannis, Bran, Jon, and Dany are not in this book. They will be in A Dance with Dragons.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Thor 2 The Dark World Review
It seems to me that more and more blockbusters are being released later in the year. I'm looking forward to Catching Fire and The Desolation of Smaug, but first comes Thor 2.
Thor 2 is the sequal to the movie Thor and it's also a sequal to The Avengers. All these Marvel movies are all tied together at this point. The movie starts off with Loki being imprisoned in Asgard, Thor is off at war trying to bring peace to the nine realms and then the Dark Elves come and try to destroy the whole universe. So Thor gets reunited with Jane Foster and they have to save the world together. Also Thor has to team up with Loki to fight the dark elves in this movie to. It's a timeless tale where the hero must team up with the villain from the last movie to take out the greater evil and I loved there scenes together.
My favorite part of this movie by far was Loki. I'm not sure if he's going to be in the Avengers 2 or not, but I really hope he is. I at least want to see him in another Marvel movie in the near future. He has become one of my favorite villains of all-time. Tom Hiddleston gives a great performance as Loki in this movie. He always has a scheme and it's a good idea to not trust him.
I know some people had some problems with the first Thor movie. They didn't like that he was mortal for most of the movie. But in this movie he's not a mortal he's the demi god that we've come to love and he's really awesome. He's such a good character to in this movie he risks everything he has to save lives. My one complaint with the movie is that I think they over did the humor. I'm starting to notice that the phase two Marvel movies have more humor than the phase one movies. Iron Man 3 was funnier than the first two Iron Man movies. I'm not sure if Marvel is doing that on purpose or if it's just a coincidence. At the same time the humor didn't take me out of the movie at all and at no point did I feel like it was forced. The movie was still a really enjoyable movie, the final battle scene was really awesome and I have to say I like this movie better than the first Thor movie. Mainly because I didn't want this movie to take place on Earth as much and it didn't. However I will say I was hoping to see a cameo of Nick Fury or Agent Coulson because remember he is still alive for those of you who don't watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Overall I will give Thor 2 The Dark World 4.5 out of 5 stars. Be aware that there are 2 post credit scenes at the end of this movie. So have you seen Thor 2? what did you think? and what do you like better Thor or Thor 2?
Thor 2 is the sequal to the movie Thor and it's also a sequal to The Avengers. All these Marvel movies are all tied together at this point. The movie starts off with Loki being imprisoned in Asgard, Thor is off at war trying to bring peace to the nine realms and then the Dark Elves come and try to destroy the whole universe. So Thor gets reunited with Jane Foster and they have to save the world together. Also Thor has to team up with Loki to fight the dark elves in this movie to. It's a timeless tale where the hero must team up with the villain from the last movie to take out the greater evil and I loved there scenes together.
My favorite part of this movie by far was Loki. I'm not sure if he's going to be in the Avengers 2 or not, but I really hope he is. I at least want to see him in another Marvel movie in the near future. He has become one of my favorite villains of all-time. Tom Hiddleston gives a great performance as Loki in this movie. He always has a scheme and it's a good idea to not trust him.
I know some people had some problems with the first Thor movie. They didn't like that he was mortal for most of the movie. But in this movie he's not a mortal he's the demi god that we've come to love and he's really awesome. He's such a good character to in this movie he risks everything he has to save lives. My one complaint with the movie is that I think they over did the humor. I'm starting to notice that the phase two Marvel movies have more humor than the phase one movies. Iron Man 3 was funnier than the first two Iron Man movies. I'm not sure if Marvel is doing that on purpose or if it's just a coincidence. At the same time the humor didn't take me out of the movie at all and at no point did I feel like it was forced. The movie was still a really enjoyable movie, the final battle scene was really awesome and I have to say I like this movie better than the first Thor movie. Mainly because I didn't want this movie to take place on Earth as much and it didn't. However I will say I was hoping to see a cameo of Nick Fury or Agent Coulson because remember he is still alive for those of you who don't watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Overall I will give Thor 2 The Dark World 4.5 out of 5 stars. Be aware that there are 2 post credit scenes at the end of this movie. So have you seen Thor 2? what did you think? and what do you like better Thor or Thor 2?
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