We are introduced to a large cast though the story is told primarily from four points of view. The first two thirds of the book are spent in character building and Robin Hobb is an expert at it. Does it still exist? Can dragons and keepers survive such a journey?This book is all about setting the stage for remainder of the series. Legends say Kelsingra was the home of dragons and Elderlings in ages past.
A crew of keepers are hired to help herd the dragons upriver to the mythical city of Kelsingra. There is only one solution: the dragons must be relocated somewhere else. Those who did are becoming a menace, hampering efforts to excavate a buried Elderling city and costing a fortune to upkeep. The new dragons were too old when they cocooned as serpents and born too early, hatching weak and deformed. Tintaglia has vanished and the Traders are having trouble with keeping up their end of the bargain.
Without further ado.It has been many years since Tintaglia saved Bingtown and struck a deal with the Traders to protect the newly hatched dragons.
#Dragon keeper audiobook free series#
So far there is no impact from the Farseer Trilogy at all and only one minor relation to the very end of the Tawny Man series which you can probably skip too and still understand the whole story no problem. While you can probably enjoy the story regardless, I recommend to have read the Liveship Traders prior to starting this book as this series is a direct follow up to those events and many things from those books are referenced with the idea that the reader is already in the know. To be a dragon keeper is a dangerous job: their charges are vicious and unpredictable, and there are many unknown perils on the journey to a city which may not even exist…ĭragon Keeper is the first in the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb and tenth in her greater Realm of the Elderlings series. But Kelsingra appears on no maps and they cannot get there on their own: a band of dragon keepers, hunters and chroniclers must attend them. The dragons claim an ancestral memory of a fabled Elderling city far upriver: perhaps there the dragons will find their true home. Soon, they become a danger and a burden to the Rain Wilders: something must be done. Stunted and deformed, they cannot fly some seem witless and bestial.
Leftrin, captain of the liveship Tarman, also has an interest in the hatching as does Bingtown newlywed, Alise Finbok, who has made it her life's work to study all there is to know of dragons.īut the creatures which emerge from the cocoons are a travesty of the powerful, shining dragons of old. Like everyone else, Thymara is fascinated by the return of dragons: it is as if they symbolise the return of hope to their war-torn world. But her father saved her and her mother has never forgiven him. Born with black claws and other aberrations, she should have been exposed at birth. People are changed by the Rain Wilds, subtly or otherwise. With its acid waters and impenetrable forest, it is a hard place for any to survive. Guided by the great blue dragon Tintaglia, they came from the sea: a Tangle of serpents fighting their way up the Rain Wilds River, the first to make the perilous journey to the cocooning grounds in generations. Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in this standalone adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.
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