Soon the burden of feeding and housing the new dragons becomes overwhelming. Tintaglia, meanwhile who has found another black male dragon abandons these new dragons. Soon only a handful survive with the humans of Trehaug and Cassarick doing their best (and often their worst) to keep them fed. These dragons are stunted, with very few of their ancestral memories, incapable of flight, or even of feeding or looking after themselves. The dragons that emerge from the cases are nothing like the majestic creatures that once roamed the skies. A number of serpents die in their cases without turning into dragons and some are swept away when the fickle Rain Wild River suddenly floods. And apart from Tintaglia and the humans of the Rain Wild, there are no other dragons or Elderlings to look after the serpents and the new dragons. Most of the serpents have been serpents for too long and have lost a lot of their memories. The tangle is however in a bad shape when they begin to cocoon. The Dragon Keeper opens with Tintaglia and the humans leading a tangle of serpents up the acidic Rain Wild River to Trehaug to change into dragons. In return of protecting the kingdom from the attacks of the kingdom of Chalced, Tintaglia expects the humans to assist her sea serpents up the Rain Wild River to their cocooning grounds and then look after the young dragons that will emerge from the cocoons. i am actually interested to re-read my post and see how it fares with the end of the novel.At the end of the Liveship Traders Trilogy, Tintaglia, the Dragon, makes a pact with the inhabitants of the Six Duchies, specifically those of Bingtown. ![]() I am going to go finish this and then hope i can finish this post. dont need to read the same paragraph 10 times. yes her marriage is horrible! yes she is deformed and has no place in society! i just. but the same thigns are just drilled ito he reader over and over. This is just one point, please dont think its the subject that bothers me. So near the end of the novel when robb is still working through it i dont even know why i am continuing. But unless the last few pages are "Fitz and kettricken find verity a ruined, silver dipped man amongst the statues and manage to save the kingdowm" good i am going to stop encouraging her by buying her works. I am not saying Keeper dosent have good characters, it does. Forcing me to want to go read good books really didnt help. And then we toss in cameos with paragon and his crew, thats nice. i dont know if Hobb is repeating herself to fill pages, or if she thinks its 1980 and she is breaking some sexual taboo, but this is boring. after 250 pages of "hints" and "winks" i get it. What this book is about: Hobb manages to lose a really neat story about malformed dragons (read: the "tangle" scenes with dragons, so good but not original) and their equally unloved keepers amongst her repeatative, uninteresting story of a homosexual trader turned oportunist monster. Selden was good, malta is a friggin awsome character and is great when she appears for all of 20 pages in Keeper. What would have been ok: The continuation of the story as we knew it. Throw in some new characters and we have a date! I love the Rain Wilds, Hobb's short story set there really let me anticipate an entire novel about the region. this could involve Tintaglia, but i dont really need her. What i hoped this novel would be about: Dragons, their keepers. And i dont even know how to organize my irritation, but i will try. I cant even wait till i finish the last 100 pages of the dragon keeper to start this thread. ![]() That being said, i cant figure out what is happening to this author. I will not discuss the Soldier Son trilogy (i think that was the name?) as i am trying to forget them. I prefer the Liveship series, but the Farseer books were decent. I should preface this by saying that i own every single one of her books, and that for the most part i enjoy them. I dont think I have ever actually started a topic here but I didnt see one for Hobb's Dragon Keeper.
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