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The trip up the river has not been the escape they hoped, and their shameful secrets threaten new relationships with dragons and dragonlovers.ДЄ disaster tightens the bonds of the ragtag band, and strips them of most of their supplies, making their push up the river more desperate. Several members of the party are carrying the guilt of association with Chalcedans, who see dragons as the source of blood and flesh to heal their Duke, riches and status. Thymara still feels like an outsider, less willing than her fellow keepers to throw off the rules of Rain Wilds society, and lacking the skills to dodge the manipulations of those who want to be on top of the new social order. The keepers bond closely with each other, with the uneven gender divide and other power struggles causing friction. The dragons who half remember in their dreams a city called Kelsingra.Дragon HavenВ continues the journey up the river. Angry at Mercor, who seems to think heвЂ™s in charge of the dragons. Angry to be so dependent on pathetic humans who donвЂ™t worship her as she deserves. Hest has sent his secretary Sedric to keep Alise in line, as punishment for criticising him, and to make some space for a potential new paramour. Also driven by her anger at her handsome, charming husband Hest and their sham marriage. Tarman knows the river better than any other ship, and is best equipped to travel further up the river than anyone has gone for centuries.ДЄlise Kincarron Finbok is coming too, driven by her passion to learn more about dragons and the lost Elderlings. He will accompany the dragons, their keepers, and a few hunters on their trip up the river. Leftrin is captain of Tarman, one of the oldest liveships, built before the practice of giving the sentient ships a human figurehead to communicate through. And her best friend Tats, part of the new freed slave minority, is coming too. Her skills as a hunter and forager arenвЂ™t enough to earn here a place in Rain Wilds society, but are just what are needed. Saved from infanticide by her loving father, and resented ever since by her mother, she has been fascinated by the dragons since she witnessed their hatching. Thymara is keen to leave the city of Cassarick where she has no future. And if they died without claiming the second half of their payment, would it be any real loss? It would be a kindness to pay them to be dragon keepers, to accompany the hatchlings on their journey to anywhere else but here. Some of them should not have been allowed to live. These young people would not be allowed to marry or bear children here in the tree cities of the Rain Wild Traders. Young ones who have been too heavily changed by the Rain Wilds, their bodies marked with scales, or claws or other deviations in the direction of the lost Elderlings, but without their grace or beauty. Maybe they could send some unwanted teenagers away with them as their keepers. If sheвЂ™s not living up to her end of the deal, why should they? Maybe they could send the dragons away, for their own good, to somewhere more suitable.

They have kept their bargain with the dragon Tintaglia to watch over the hatchlings in return for her help in the war against Chalced, but Tintaglia has disappeared. The pragmatic Rain Wild Traders want them gone. They entered their cocoons too weak and too late in the season, and lacking mature dragons to share memories and watch over them they are stunted, pitiful creatures, unable to feed or groom themselves. But these are not the dragons of the past. The disrupted lifecycle of dragons is being restored, with the first dragon eggs for centuries hatching on the banks of the Rain Wild River.

The Dragon KeeperВ picks up where The Liveship TradersВ left off.

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** Spoilers for The Liveship Traders and Tawny Man series, and for the general plot direction of the series Nothing really surprised or shocked me, and the lost dragon city lacked the sense of awe and wonder.Д«ut not living up to Robin HobbвЂ™s usual standards doesnвЂ™t mean these books werenвЂ™t worth the read, at least to fill a gap in a very compelling larger story. The characters lack the depth and humanity I expect from Hobb, and were too neatly paired off by the series end.

Maybe IвЂ™d heard it was a weaker link in the chain? If so, I heard right. But for some reason IвЂ™d passed over the Rain Wild Chronicles until now. IвЂ™ve read the other books in Robin Hobbs interlinked series many times, and the Farseer Trilogy is one of my favourite alltime reads.

CBR13 Bingo (in order) вЂ“ Travel, The Wilds, Cityscape, Home