![]() ![]() The dragons are interesting in their malformed and retarded states and their keepers even more so. ![]() The Dragon Keeper is by no means in the same league as Hobb’s ‘Liveship Traders’ trilogy, nor even in either ‘The Farseer’ and ‘Tawny Man’ trilogies. There are reviews across the internet that decry her slow pacing and lousy characters, and both of these may have been the cause of my righteous indignation: in all honesty, I do believe that the pacing of this book is a little too slow to be comfortable, and the characters verging on two-dimensional.īut considering that it took me maybe six hours to finally finish the book which had been sitting on my shelf with a sticky note reminding me of its failure, I can’t quite figure what shook me so hard as to give up entirely on the author. I say ‘for some reason’ because, sitting here at the beginning of 2013, I’m quite truly lost as to what it was that put me off the book. ![]() But for some reason, The Dragon Keeper ticked me off. I was enamoured with the whole of her ‘Realm of the Elderlings’ work, and even enjoyed ‘Soldier Son’. I received ‘The Dragon Keeper’ by Robin Hobb back in 2009, and got halfway through the book before I put it down in a huff and refused to ever read anything Hobb would ever write. In a past review I happened to mention my souring love for Robin Hobb, which subsequently cued the recommendation-instincts of my editor here at FBR, Lee, who mentioned in an email that I should give Robin Hobb another shot like a lover once spurned given a second chance at redemption. I have found it very sensible to always listen when my editors speak. ![]()
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