His secretary, Sedric Meldar, is the most interesting of the characters. Despite her middling years, she is offered a marriage of convenience with Hest Finbok, a handsome trader with a secret. Alise Finbok, a Bingtown bachelorette, initially offers the weakest of the perspectives, her introduction a passively written rumination on all the things wrong in her life, besides a bunch of exposition that, after the harrowing experiences of the young dragons, is difficult to engage with. There are less point-of-view characters than the Liveship books.
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The scene poses enough questions to hook the reader: will the dragons survive to full strength? Will any fly like the glorious beasts of old? When it becomes clear that the dragons must be moved from their hatching grounds, plot threads twist and characters come together in interesting ways. They are grotesque imitations of what dragons should be and are shunned by most. The hatching is a sad affair, the dragons born stunted. Her father’s refusal to accept these traditions is the first link in Hobb’s major theme, that traditions can be broken to entertain a new, perhaps better way of life. Born ‘marked’ by the magic of the region, society deemed that she be exposed at birth. The hatching of the dragons is witnessed through the eyes of a reptilian Rain Wilder named Thymara.
Hobb’s command of colourful and vibrant language is impressive, the writing flows far better than her previous foray into third-person. Maulkin’s tangle of lost serpents have made their way up the Rain Wild River and are building their cocoons under the dragon Tintaglia and Selden Vestrit’s supervision. The opening of the first instalment, Dragon Keeper, acts as a reminder of the closing events of the Liveship Traders. A continuation of those events, with many allusions to the Farseers, it’s another string in Hobb’s richly woven word tapestry. No spoilers for the Rain Wilds Chronicles.Īfter the impressive Tawny Man trilogy, Robin Hobb once again switches the action back to Bingtown and the Rain Wilds, the vivid, dangerous southern regions home to the nautical dramas of the Liveship Traders.
Spoilers follow for Hobb’s first, second and third trilogies.
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