Blood of Dragons (The Rain Wild Chronicles, Book 4)

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Even if however I am incorrect on her motivations, that doesn't stop the fact that I did feel if Chasim was to serve more purpose in the plot we needed to see more of her, and especially more of her that did not involve such brutality, since I never really got a sense of who she was. In the fourth and final volume of the Rain Wild Chronicles, we rejoin our young keepers and their dragons in the ruined Elderling city of Kelsingra. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Other reviews spoke of the end of one particular character as if we're wrong, well it pleased me it was just a shame that it didn't get a bit more attention and therefore a reaction from the characters.

Perhaps because this plot is compressed, I'll also say that Chasim is one instance where Hobb's usually careful dialogue and character understanding seems to fail, as the last thing any person who has been violently raped would do literally the moment after is sit down with a fellow prisoner and have a discussion about their feelings. Many setups from the earlier books are finally paid off beautifully, and the more annoying elements of the series get resolved as well. To be honest, I’m not sure how well I’ve succeeded: are the keepers’ bonds to their dragons primarily Wit or Skill bonds, or perhaps a mixture of the two?Their keepers immerse themselves in the dangerously addictive memory-stone records of the city in the hope of recovering the Elderling magic that once allowed humans and dragons to co-exist. Suddenly though this then becomes one of those books where you think there's only a hundred pages left so you wonder if it will all be wrapped up in a satisfying manner. That being said, the plot surrounding Hest Finbok and his unwilling journey to Kelsingra is one of Hobb's finest moments. What is doubly surprising is that this is a confrontation we've been anticipating right from the first book of the quadrilogy, and yet it absolutely doesn't disappoint at all.

We do however get a slight revisit to some old Bingtown characters that draws the story to a nice close and yet again the story is left open to come back to. It is also good to see all the trilogies come together in a sort of understanding that takes your mind back to key points from other stories. Most recently, the four volumes of the Rain Wilds Chronicles were published: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons and Blood of Dragons. l'uscita del libro in lingua Italiana tardava a venire e quindi, pur non essendo una cima in lingua inglese, ho acquistato il testo originale.Thymara has been a largely passive character, which isn't essentially a problem in itself, however where in other books Hobb has taken characters from a state of passive or even actively malicious motivation to genuine growth and realization, (Malta being a prime example), Thymara just seems to sit and accept what happens, indeed Elderling transformations and magical discoveries aside I can't really say how the Thymara of Blood of Dragons is so different to the young woman we met climbing through the trees in Dragon Keeper. On a structural level, the Chalced plot and its resolution, which comes at the very end also felt definitely out, indeed I was rather feeling the book should have ended before t hen and things were becoming a little static.