DRAGON KEEPER REVIEW SERIES

Hopefully the remainder of this quartet picks up more than I remember, because right now the prospect of three further books like this is looking kind of rough. I do appreciate the main heroine and her arc of personal empowerment, even if I wish we had a more substantial narrative to scaffold it. But they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend. Nor are there apparent stakes for anyone in this world beyond the central characters - which isn’t inherently a flawed approach, yet still marks a fairly significant shift from the battles and politics of the previous stories.ĭespite the minimal plot, Hobb is a skilled fantasist, and it’s always a joy to spend time in this setting. Perhaps there the dragons will find their true home.

Not much happens, and then it just continues not happening right through the end. The entire storyline in this book took place in the Rain Wild section of the world and plot-wise, the first book has a very simple premise. To some extent, Hobb is bound by her own. Dragon Keeper is the first book in the Rain Wild Chronicles quartet, which also marks the beginning of the fourth out of five subseries within Hobb’s The Realm of the Elderlings series. However, I was struck by what seemed somewhat outmoded gender roles. That’s a common fault in the author’s works, but it’s so aggravated in this initial Rain Wilds novel that there isn’t even any particular climax closing out the volume. It works well, and the story moves along smoothly.

DRAGON KEEPER REVIEW SERIES

The fourth series in Robin Hobb’s larger Elderlings saga starts out pretty slowly (and doesn’t improve much on that front, if memory serves).

Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (The Rain Wild Chronicles #1)

Dragon keeper review