By George R. R. Martin
THE booklet in the back of THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO sequence GAME OF THRONES
Few books have captivated the mind's eye and received the devotion and compliment of readers and critics in every single place as has George R. R. Martin’s enormous epic cycle of excessive fable. Now, in A ceremonial dinner for Crows, Martin promises the long-awaited fourth booklet of his landmark sequence, as a state torn asunder reveals itself finally near to peace . . . in simple terms to be introduced on an excellent extra terrifying process destruction.
A ceremonial dinner FOR CROWS
It turns out too reliable to be precise. After centuries of sour strife and deadly treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated each other into an uneasy truce. Or so it seems that. . . . With the loss of life of the enormous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s touchdown. Robb Stark’s dying has damaged the again of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered through the country like seeds on barren soil. Few valid claims to the as soon as desperately sought Iron Throne nonetheless exist—or they're held in palms too vulnerable or too far-off to wield them successfully. The battle, which raged uncontrolled for thus lengthy, has burned itself out.
But as within the aftermath of any climactic fight, it's not lengthy prior to the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters begin to assemble, picking out over the bones of the lifeless and battling for the spoils of the soon-to-be useless. Now within the Seven Kingdoms, because the human crows gather over a dinner party of ashes, bold new plots and unsafe new alliances are shaped, whereas spectacular faces—some normal, others in basic terms simply appearing—are noticeable rising from an ominous twilight of prior struggles and chaos to take in the demanding situations forward.
It is a time while the clever and the bold, the deceitful and the powerful will collect the talents, the facility, and the magic to outlive the stark and bad instances that lie prior to them. it's a time for nobles and commoners, squaddies and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come back jointly and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a ceremonial dinner for crows, many are the guests—but just a couple of are the survivors.
From the Hardcover edition.