A Feast for Crows

There really isn't much to say about these books when you get this far. They are standard GRRM fare, and that is alright. If you are this far you've been roped in by the characters and want to know what'll happen to them. The only difference here is that the main characters it follows are some of the lesser characters or new ones. You won't find Jon Snow, Dany, Tyrion, Stannis, Davos, Bran or Theon. Instead the focus is on the recently likable Jaime Lannister, Cersei Lannister, Samwell, Sansa Stark, Araya Stark, Brienne and a few new characters.

GRRM essentially overwrote for the fourth book in the series, and instead of simply cutting it in half and leaving some cliffhangers, he chose to tell the stories of half of the characters, and the next edition is the other half of the characters. It is a giant pacing change from the previous two books, where everything kind of went to hell. This one is more the machinations of the non-warriors like Cersei and Jaime, the trials and tribulations of Samwell, Araya and Sansa as well as a few others. If you've come this far, you'll read this, it might just take you a while.