What Comes After a Feast for Crows
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Still wondering what you'll do now that Game of Thrones is over? Not ready to leave Westeros quite yet? You can always lose yourself in the books the show is based on—while most GoT fans know this, some might be unaware that before all your favorite Game of Thrones characters were on HBO, they appeared in the pages of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. The book series is long, complicated, and will suck you in so thoroughly, you won't remember you ever had a social life.
And while the HBO show followed the general plot of the book series, it also cut out a lot of characters, subplots, and other details (Lady Stoneheart, where you at?!). There's plenty of fun stuff that never made it from page to screen (and okay—a few weird, convoluted storylines we're happy HBO did without). One cool thing about the books is that they're told from numerous characters' perspectives, the viewpoints switching from chapter to chapter. You may be following Jon Snow at the Wall for a chapter, only to suddenly switch to Sansa in King's Landing.
And while one major gripe GoT fans have with the TV series is that controversial finale—but it's something that Martin says won't be an issue for his books. He recently confirmed that he's working on the last two books in the series (there are seven books in the Song of Ice and Fire series in total, five of which are out already), and he also said that the book's ending will be totally different from the show, which is happy news for fans that hated the show's ending.
The books in A Song of Ice and Fire, in order, are as follows: A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance With Dragons; The Winds of Winter; and A Dream of Spring. Here's some info on the five books that are out, with notes on a few major plot points from the show that happen in each of them.
1 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
• RIP Ned Stark.
• Dany marries Khal Drogo and make dragon babies.
• Uh oh, wights are a thing!
2 A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
• Evil Joffrey is on the Iron Throne doin' evil things.
• Tyrion whips out the ol' wildfire at the he Battle of Blackwater.
• Jon Snow infiltrates the wildlings.
• Dany goes to Qarth, the weirdest place ever.
3 A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)
• Two words: RED WEDDING.
• RIP Evil Joffrey.
• Jon and Ygritte do sexy wildling things.
• Dany acquires the Unsullied army.
4 A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
• Arya starts training with the Faceless Men.
• We meet the "Sand Snakes" in Dorne.
• Brienne spends a ton of time on the hunt for Sansa, who's hiding in the Vale with Littlefinger.
5 A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5)
• A LOT of very creepy, very disturbing Ramsay Bolton stuff—including his torture of Theon, whom he renames "Reek."
• Dany, in Mereen, locks up her dragons because they're too dangerous.
• Bran meets the Three-Eyed Crow.
6 A Song of Ice and Fire Series
Of course, you can also just buy 'em all together.
Jordyn Taylor Jordyn Taylor is the Deputy Editor of Content at Men's Health.
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What Comes After a Feast for Crows
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