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Dragon Keeper with Bonus Material

By Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm
Dragon Keeper with Bonus Material by Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm digital book - Fable

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For a limited time, experience the beginning of the Rain Wilds Chronicles series at a special price, including bonus excerpts from other books in the series.In Dragon Keeper, too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labor and expense of tending earthbound dragons who were hatched weak and deformed by a river turned toxic. If neglected, the creatures will rampage—or die—so it is decreed that they must move farther upriver toward Kelsingra, the mythical homeland whose location is locked deep within the dragons' uncertain ancestral memories.

Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned—as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals . . . and joys beyond their wildest imaginings.

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“I've read all of Hobb's books, and enjoyed them all quite a lot. There are few authors so consistent. Perhaps it's because she saves the books I don't like for her https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53255.Megan_Lindholm persona. I usually prefer to re-read previous books in a series before getting to the latest one. In this case, that might have mean reading nearly all of Hobb's work, since most of it is connected. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do that. I wish I had been. it would undoubtedly have helped to place some of the references. It wasn't necessary - Hobb does a good job of background setting, at least enough to strengthen my memory. But it would have been nice. In any case, the story starts well, and deals with the transformation of sea serpents into dragons (Hobb - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6426624.Julie_Czerneda collaboration up next?). To give Hobb credit, she doesn't make it easy, and that's what the story is about. She weaves in dragons, Rainwilders, Traders, and more. It works well, and the story moves along smoothly. However, I was struck by what seemed somewhat outmoded gender roles. To some extent, Hobb is bound by her own invented history and customs. Still, I found it quaint and perhaps a bit dull to see a woman struggling to free herself from her husband's domination and even near-chattel status, and to see a gay couple hiding their love from the world. There's nothing wrong with these stories - they're interesting, and certainly reflective enough of the world not long back (or the current world, in many places). But they're not new, and it's a bit disheartening to cast yourself into a fantasy world for the adventure and discovery that Hobb usually offers, and find instead tawdry sexual politics. For my money, aspects of this were handled much more intriguingly in the https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45107.Assassin_s_Apprentice__Farseer_Trilogy___1_ books. In this trilogy, I'd have preferred to see it glossed over with background reforms, especially because it's only book one in the trilogy, and I know we have two more books with Alise's awakening and Sedric's nature as central issues. Sex aside, the story satisfies, and the writing is as smooth as always. I'd have liked a few more marvels to gawk at, but those are surely coming, and I did like the 'realism' of the approach to the dragons and their chances of survival. Overall, strongly recommended. There was no question of my picking up the next two books. I just did, and if you don't have them, now's a great time. I was lucky enough to pick up this Kindle book for a couple of bucks, and I got the next two just now for about the same price. Amazing to get a whole new Hobb trilogy for the price of a paperback. Here's hoping it's a new trend in ebook pricing.”

About Robin Hobb

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.

Megan Lindholm

Robin Hobb / Megan Lindholm was born in California, grew up in Alaska, and currently lives in Tacoma, Washington. As Robin Hobb, she is the author of fourteen novels and numerous shorter works. Megan Lindholm has published nine novels; her short fiction has won the Asimov's Readers' Award and been a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards.

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