One thing first: TTC watch out, people don't use spoiler tags in this thread. You may see posts (like mine) that contain outright series changing info.
Re the RW: Once you accept it and move on it becomes easier to handle. When I first read about the RW I was livid. But as you may have seen earlier I'm on my second go round and it didn't bother me nearly as much the second time, but was still a source of stress because it was THE big event that I knew I couldn't avoid.
Something I'm noticing about Feast for Crows is that not only are there only a select few characters that are featured (the rest obviously being in DwD) but the chapters are quite a bit longer than other books.
Most chapters I'd say are about 15-20 pages, sometimes shorter. Book 4 is pretty much 25 page chapters as the norm. Not only that but so many chapters and they focus heavily on Jaime, Cersei, Brienne.
I don't hate those storylines but they tend to be very descriptive and without a whole ton of intrigue. I've always said I love the backstabbing political nature of the books but I can only take so much of Cersei being a bitch or Brienne wondering aimlessly. Cersei's at least involves a ton of backstabbing and stuff. Brienne's whole damn book is her chasing a red herring.
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