Seven Crows order to destroy the cross-border vampiric threat. Riley and Sam cannot count on back-up from their normal team, as high-level string pulling has pushed them off the case officially. The four discover there is more than just seemingly random vampire murders when more than one supernatural threat shows up and local hospitals begin filling with the sick and the dying. Crows are also prevalent as well. Many are mysteriously dying. Living crows seem to be warning the foursome of future threats based on an old poem. The poem goes like this: "One crow sorrow/Two crows mirth/Three crows a wedding/Four crows
A Feast for Crows east and north." Martin also added that the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series would now likely total seven novels. "A Feast for Crows" was published months later on October 17, 2005, over five years after the previous volume in the series, "A Storm of Swords". The parallel novel "A Dance with Dragons" was released on July 12, 2011. Though "A Feast for Crows" was the first novel in the sequence to debut at number one on "The New York Times" Best Seller list, it received more negative reviews in comparison with the previous novels in the series. Martin's