![]() Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Saskia Butler? Try something by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Brent Weeks or Patrick Rothfuss. I'm a huge fan of the genre, but this book was just so boring and was not immersive in any way. This book doesn't put me off the genre, but I don't think I'll bother with any of the other series of books written by Robin. Has Dragon Keeper put you off other books in this genre? She could probably do a child's book reasonably well, but got irritated by her very quickly. ![]() ![]() The narrator has a really breathy reading style which I found off putting. Just couldn't manage this one, so maybe it got better. I nearly always finish a book, even if I don't like it. I don't think I could try another book written by Robin- just too wet and namby pamby. Would you try another book written by Robin Hobb or narrated by Saskia Butler? To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist. 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. 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.
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