The surviving serpents were too old and starved by the time they were rescued to build proper cocoons, and the resulting dragons are either stunted, malformed, sickly, dim-witted, or a pitiable combination of all four. It's doubly frustrating for me because I read the previous trilogy, and know this information already, but even to acclimate new readers, the repetition is excessive.Īnyway, this trilogy opens when the triumphant hatching of the new generation of dragons goes horribly awry. Was that so hard to explain? No? The author takes every available opportunity to repeat this piece of worldbuilding, over and over again, with different characters and threads of dialogue, until I just about threw this book down in disgust. Thanks to an ancient earthquake, the dragons died out, the sea serpents were left adrift, and the remaining cocoons were buried, destroyed, or harvested by ignorant Traders to create liveships. Like big, scaly butterflies, dragons start out as sea serpents and then enter cocoons of mud and shared memories - emerging as dragons the next year. The Liveship Trader Trilogy ended with Tintaglia - the last living dragon - rescuing the surviving sea serpents and helping them prepare for their own transformations into dragons with the help of the Rain Wilds and Bingtown Traders, who provided assistance in return for Tintaglia's promise to protect Bingtown's shores against invaders. Unfortunately, Dragon Keeper suffers a lot from repetitiveness, an overabundance of exposition, slack pacing, and annoying characters. I'm a huge Robin Hobb fan, and I particularly enjoyed her Liveship Traders Trilogy, so when I heard she was going back to the world of Bingtown and the Rain Wilds for another trilogy, I was psyched. The Word: Well, it appears this review will be yet another stop on the Favourite Authors Who Disappoint Me Tour. 1 Self-Absorbed, Somewhat Stereotypical, But Not Completely Evil Gay BFF.Fastidious, well-dressed and snobby, he wars between his loyalty to Alise and his love for Alise's husband.Ĭaptain Leftrin: The owner of a liveship barge who is hired to accompany the dragons and their keepers. Sedric: Alise's BFF and, unbeknownst to her, her husband's gay lover. Tats: A young freed slave who joins the dragon keepers and used to have a serious crush on Thymara. Greft: A member of the dragon keepers who isn't above using manipulation and mind games to establish dominance. Her one dream is to be able to study dragons for real, but how far is she willing to go to realize it? She's hungry for the chance to prove she's worthy of life and love.Īlise: An absent-minded scholar of dragons and Elderlings who is shackled to a cruel and selfish husband. Thymara: An inhabitant of the Rain Wilds born with clawed hands and feet, she's an outcast in a society that traditionally abandons deformed children.
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