Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles

Name: Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
Rating: 4.5 (58 reviews)

Robin Hobb

Jan 2010 · Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 1 · Harper Collins

4.5

58 reviews

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“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers.”
New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

With Dragon Keeper, Robin Hobb, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling “master fantasist” (Baltimore Sun), begins a breathtaking new series about the resurgence of dragons in a world that both needs and fears them—the world Hobb’s readers most recently visited in her immensely popular “Tawny Man” trilogy. Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles, Dragon Keeper is yet another magnificent adventure from the author of The Soldier Son and Farseer Trilogies, confirming the Contra Costa Times of California’s assessment of Hobb as “one of the most important writers in 21st century fantasy.”

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4.5

58 reviews

Peter Steiner

July 18, 2021

For a book titled "Dragon Keeper," there is a truly mountainous blockage of dialogue committed to characters that have nothing to do with dragons. Honestly, if I wanted to read a Regency comedy of manners, I would pick out an Austen title. I skipped whole pages of Alise and Hest's interminable monologues and dialogue, only to find - it didn't change the thrust of the plot at all. Most of the named characters have little bearing on the flow of events, and are generally banal and unlikable - Hest and Alise are exemplars. It rather smacks of padding - this needed a good editor which it did not receive.

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Connie Colorado

February 21, 2020

Amazing author; knows when to withhold info to reveal later at the right moment, and when to tell-all. Keeps a reader going, always involved always in the moment and ready for the next... one my newest favorite authors, although this is the second series I've read by this author. Final comment- invest in Robin Hobb books.... they tell well.

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Shar Tegral (Q)

September 29, 2019

A complicated & convoluted tale introducing powerful characters, settings, and concepts. Not the dragons you are thinking about but that is her talent. Showing us another side of our expectations. About what you should expect from Robin Hobb.

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About the author

Robin Hobb was born in California but grew up in Alaska. It was there that she learned to love the forest and the wilderness. She has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of five critically acclaimed fantasy series: The Rain Wilds Chronicles (Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, Blood of Dragons), The Soldier Son Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and The Farseer Trilogy. Under the name Megan Lindholm she is the author of The Wizard of the Pigeons, Windsingers, and Cloven Hooves. The Inheritance, a collection of stories, was published under both names. Her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and she has been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.

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