This book is all about the boundaries people build themselves, walling them from living a life they don’t feel they are worthy of having. Instead of a battle including the crossing of swords and the shedding of blood, Hobb has each character fight for the chance to feel their own worth. There are so many moments that I thought to myself “I’ve felt that.” or “I know exactly how that feels.” Times I stopped reading because I felt the book in my hand turn into a mirror, reflecting the times I have personally struggled with what these fictional characters were experiencing. I have found bits and pieces of myself in every one of her stories, but none more so than Dragon Keeper.
The people, she writes about are real and have pains that all readers may identify and sympathize with. Hobb is forever the queen of character-driven stories. In her he finds purpose and a reason to hide now more than ever the truth behind his secrets. Leftrin, the hard and weathered bargeman, has always faced life alone, living one day after the next until he meets Alise. While Sedric, her childhood friend, is forced to accompany her on a trip he finds foolish, but must keep those thoughts to himself or lose what he holds most dear. Alise, a Bingtown dragon scholar, for a time, escapes the confines of an abusive marriage to document the migration of the dragons and to validate her self-worth. Thymara, a young, scaled Rain Wilder signs up for this mission in the attempt to prove her worth to a people who have shunned her. The people of the Rain Wilds can no longer care for them, so they assign keepers to each dragon to accompany them to the legendary city of Kelsingra. The dragons have emerged from their cocoons, malformed and stunted. This is the tale of a group of discarded and forgotten people proving to themselves they aren’t so easily forsaken. There are no great battles and scheming royals making grabs for a throne. There isn’t a Catalyst attempting to make impossible decisions to change the destiny of the world. I completely and wholeheartedly disagree. That while it was entertaining, it was not as immersive as her previous work. I’d read many reviews that stated The Rain Wild Chronicles to be Hobbs weakest series. I went in not only preparing myself to be dissatisfied, but expecting it.
I’m not entirely sure why I thought that this book would disappoint me. “All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.” But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them.Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (Book Review by Thewitch_kingreads) The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly some seem witless and bestial. Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons.īut the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive.
Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in this fantastic adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. ‘Fantasy as it ought to be written’ George R.R.
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