Tormented by ancestral memories in which they could swoop and soar, these crippled creatures are earthbound and embittered, frustrated by their own lack of ability and causing ever greater concern to the human communities nearby. When the newborn dragons struggle out of their cocoons they are stunted, half-made, deformed by their weakness as serpents and the unfortunate circumstances of their cocooning. But new worlds, as they’ll discover, have a habit of not living up to expectations. The Rain Wild Traders and their Bingtown colleagues wait with baited breath for the day when the transformed dragons will fight their way out of their cocoons and take to the skies again: the first batch in generations, and the beginning of a new world. The sea serpents have made their torturous way up the Rain Wild River, under the dragon Tintaglia’s guidance, and formed their cocoons on the shore at Casserick. Set in Bingtown and along the Rain Wild River, The Rain Wild Chronicles takes place a few years after the conclusion of the Liveship Traders trilogy. More to the point, I’m not allowing myself to read the new book until I’m completely up to date.
The dragon keeper book series#
And so it’s now important to read The Rain Wild Chronicles, because there may well be developments in this series that will affect Fitz’s story. Secondly, in a stroke of unbelievable good fortune, I’ve been granted an advance review copy of this new book. However, the situation has changed since then.įirst, I heard about the impending publication, in early August, of the first book in a new trilogy about Fitz and the Fool. Although I’d enjoyed The Liveship Traders, the Rain Wilds wasn’t necessarily a place I felt the need to go back to and, moreover, I’d read a number of lukewarm reviews of the series. My heart has always been on the Farseer side of Hobb’s fantasy world and, when I finished The Tawny Man trilogy, I believed that storyline was tied up. Those of you who followed my Robin Hobb reread a few months ago will remember that I had no plans to read The Rain Wild Chronicles.
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