Despite some inconsistency issues and this being my least favorite Realm of the Elderlings book, I was still very, very hooked.)īlood of Dragons: 4/5 Stars (This could have used more death and character development, but overall, it was a solid finale! I loved finally getting some answers to questions I’ve had since reading the Farseer Trilogy and seeing how far the dragons had come since they first hatched on the shores of Cassarick. I just wish the other dragon keepers had been fleshed out a bit more!)ĭragon Haven : 5/5 Stars (The character development! 🥰 This book had everything I could have asked for and more! Well, fine, maybe one of the romances came to fruition a bit suddenly for my tastes, and at times, Thymara sounded like she’d swallowed a feminist manual… But watching the dragons grow stronger was just so cool! And Sedric! I just love Sedric, okay? 😭 For him, I am willing to be blind to any flaws this book might have.)Ĭity of Dragons: 3.5/5 Stars (I loved finally getting more information on the Elderlings – It only took what, twelve books? – but good grief, I did not need so many skill pillar sex scenes and Thymara agonizing over who she should or shouldn’t sleep with!! 😅 Also, my favorite characters faded completely into domestic background-dom, which I am not forgiving Robin Hobb for! Couldn’t we have had more Sedric and Carson instead of a suddenly super perfect and docile Malta? I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I kind of started to miss exasperating Malta! The dragons were really cool, though.
Publication Date: J( Dragon Keeper), Ma( Dragon Haven), Febru( City of Dragons), Janu( Blood of Dragons)ĭragon Keeper: 4.5/5 Stars (How can you expect me not to love this? It introduced us to the dragons! 🥰 I also really fell for Alise and Sedric – despite wanting to strangle him at times – and I suppose Thymara is alright, too. Page Count: 553 ( Dragon Keeper) + 570 ( Dragon Haven) + 425 ( City of Dragons) + 535 ( Blood of Dragons) = 2,083 Series: The Rain Wild Chronicles / The Realm of the Elderlings #10 – #13 There’s plenty of action and touching moments between characters.
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Still, apart from that and a few continuity mistakes which, despite being minor, drove me absolutely nuts, this series is excellent! So many plot strands from the previous books start coming together. So while the ending to this series is a masterpiece compared to what we got in Fool’s Fate, I just found it to be a little underwhelming. Which inevitably made things less exciting…īesides, I wanted more pain! Although the ending had plenty of destruction, I was hoping for at least a few heart-breaking character deaths, and we didn’t really get that. By the time we got to City of Dragons, there was almost no character development left because every point-of-view character – with the possible exception of Thymara – had already completed their main arc either in the Liveship Traders or in Dragon Haven.
That being said, I feel like the first two books were definitely the stronger of the four.
Especially Sedric! 🥰 I love him nearly as much as I love the Fool, which, if I do say so myself, is truly an achievement. I’ve heard several people say that this is their least favorite series of the five, and while that probably holds for me as well, that’s not to say it was bad at all! I loved learning about dragons and Elderlings – after all, I’d been begging for this kind of information ever since I first read The Farseer Trilogy – and the characters really grew on me, too.
Reviewing Robin Hobb’s books has kind of become tradition on this blog, so how could I deprive you of my thoughts on the final two series now that I’ve finished the entire Realm of the Elderlings? Obviously, I couldn’t! Which is why today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the Rain Wild Chronicles! “They had come so far, yet now that she was here, the years of journeying were already fading in her mind, giving way to the desperate needs of the present.”
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