![]() ![]() It is a far-fetched notion and she laments her position as a girl verging on spinster-hood, tied to her father’s purse strings. She longs to learn all she can of dragons and Elderlings, and her one true goal in life is to see them in the flesh. Now the arrogance of dragons is tested and they realise they may need to rely on human aid if they are to survive at all.Īlise, plain, unmarried daughter of a Bingtown Trader, dreams of dragons. Thymara watches the dragons emerge and when she discovers she can hear the dragons speak, she witnesses the depth of their confusion and self-pity. There are no Elderlings to greet her with fresh meat and devotion, and the dragon Tintaglia, her guide and protector, is gone. ![]() She seems to be missing some of her ancestral memories and her wings are not fully formed. Sintara the dragon emerges from her case but something is wrong. Only her father’s desperation saved her and now, ignoring the scorn her neighbours send her way, she waits and watches from high up in the trees to see the dragons hatch. Young Thymara, a girl heavily marked by The Rain Wilds that are her home, should never have lived. The serpents have waited and struggled long years to finally reach the cocooning grounds, and give the last of their strength and determination to spin the casing that will protect them until they hatch. Hobb’s Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies remain my favourite books of all time and The Dragon Keeper takes us back to the same world, back to the lands discovered in the Liveship Traders trilogy, to continue the tale of what will happen now dragons have returned to the world. In preparation for the release of the next book in the Rain Wild Chronicles this year, I decided to revisit the Cursed Shores and remind myself of the series so far. ![]()
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