The Dragon Keeper
Ratings68
Average rating3.9
As always, Robin Hobb makes me care about the characters and get invested in their journey. I would say my main complain is how slow the books moves. I assumed they would get further on the their journey in Bk1, and they did not.
This has got to be the weakest Hobb book I've read to date.
It was fine. Nothing much happened that I would expect from a Hobb book but I'm prepared to sit and wait for the emotional damage I know she'll give me.
I am enjoying that characters especially the dragons. She manages to make something so old come across so new.
But oh Hobb can write terrible men! First there was regal then Kyle who I thought could get no worse and now HEST. Please tell me he gets what's coming to him cause my god.
This book felt more of an introduction to the characters and the dragons. It teases the implications on what could happen because of the deformed dragons and hints at certain character arcs. A slow book but one I enjoyed. O feel book 2 and onwards is where a lot of the things I love about Hobb will come forth.
3.5
I'm so happy to be back in the Rainwilds! That being said, this was my least favorite Hobb book so far. It just gets 4 stars instead of 5. Still fantastic, but I just didn't love it as much as the others. The ending made me want to dive right into the next one! As always, Robin Hobb is the queen of creating characters that I love to hate.
Maybe my number one pet peeve is a writer who refuses to let you put two and two together, and overexplains even the most obvious plot points. This book has an instance of that within the first like 25 pages. Instant DNF. Life's too short. My two brain cells deserve respect.
She's done it again! A new cast of characters so vivid and real and flawed. So easy to get invested in. A little bit Tarzan, a little bit Lord of The Flies are some of the vibes I get. Not to mention the incredible cast of dragons! We get to see how individual they actually are. I'm completely emotionally invested, again.
Abrupt ending but then I guess after looking through some reviews and other things on the internet the book was broken into two parts and wasn't really supposed to be two books thus the uprupt ending. It is a bit slower than other books I have recently read but I really didn't mind it. I think that I would have given it a 3.5 if possible but when I think of some other books I've been reading recently I though it would merit a 4 over a 3. I wanted to read more and I'm curious about the lore of the dragons so I will be continuing the series.
Anything by Hobb is instant 5 star, she is one of the masters of character work and the sole reason for why I need therapy after reading what she does to them but suffer I will.
She is an inspiration as a writer.
