With this book I'm sad to say I'm finished with this writer. Even the love interests were full of violence and silly quarreling. ![]() Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy which I disliked - still written brilliantly, but with far too much ugliness and violence against her characters for my own taste. Sometimes books are the best pain medication for me. This was another book that I could get lost in and forget about the real world for awhile. I'm glad to see that she's gone back to the Bingtown traders and Liveships world. " I didn't care for Robin Hobb's last series. However, I do find that I need to read the second book to see if there is some form of ending before going to the third and hopefully conclusion of the series. " Didn't know if I was going to appreciate this book at the beginning, but did get quite irritated when I saw that it wasn't going to be concluded before ending at least an ending of some sort would have been appreciated. " More mature than it seems at the start - very interesting take on the typical dragon-human relationship! " - Taylor, I still want to read the other two books based on her past writing. The book also lacked action, which is probably partly because it's part I. The characters are three-dimensional, but there wasn't really one that you can attach to or admire. Hobbs didn't seem to do an adequate job of describing this "new world" and its fantastical nature, as she's done in other books. " I'm a big fan of Robin Hobbs' other trilogies, especially the Farseers, but I didn't like this one as much. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.It'll be interesting to see which of the characters are the first to crack under the weight of the lies they're telling themselves." "A bit slow starting, especially with so many characters and story threads to follow, but I got so caught up in the experience that I was startled when the book ended. Embarking on an arduous journey that holds no promise of return, the band of humans and dragons must make its way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River?an extraordinary odyssey that will teach them lessons about themselves and one another as they experience hardships, betrayals, and joys beyond their wildest dreams. ![]() The two women share a deep kinship with the dragons: Thymara can instinctively communicate with them, and Alise, captivated by their beauty and majesty, has devoted her life to studying them. ![]() Among them is Thymara, an unschooled forest girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy Trader?s wife trapped in a loveless marriage, who attaches herself to the expedition as a dragon expert. To ensure their safe passage, the Traders recruit a disparate group of young people to care for the damaged creatures and escort them to their new home. To avert catastrophe, the dragons decree a move even farther up the treacherous river to Kelsingra, their ancient, mythical homeland whose mysterious location is locked deep within the dragons? uncertain ancestral memories. The Trader leadership fears that if it stops providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampage?or die along the river?s acidic muddy banks. But Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are weary of the labor and expense of tending useless dragons. The few who survive cannot use their wings earthbound, they are powerless to hunt and vulnerable to human predators willing to kill them for the fabled healing powers of dragon flesh. But too much time has passed, and the newly hatched dragons are damaged and weak, and many die. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at sea?to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon Tintaglia. For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans.
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