City of Dragons
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin
Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the third instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.
The dragon keepers and fledgling dragons have discovered a route to the lost city of Kelsingra but there is one problem: they need to be able to fly to cross the treacherous waters and enter the fabled city. At first, only a few dragons are willing to try – the others are either too ashamed of their deformed wings and feeble muscles or too proud to risk failure and humiliation.
But the rewards waiting at Kelsingra for those brave enough to take to the air are worth more than they could possibly imagine. This was a city built for dragons and their keepers. Alise Finbok is overwhelmed by the treasures she finds there, and spends hours carefully uncovering wonder after wonder, recording her findings for posterity. She knows the knowledge will change everything the world thought about dragons and the Elderlings.
Yet rumours of the city’s discovery have floated down the Rain Wild River and reached envious ears in Bingtown and beyond. Adventurers, pirates and fortune hunters are coming in droves to pillage what they can from the city. Will the dragons, only just finding their strength, and their keepers, who are changing in their own mysterious ways, be able to fend them off?
And what has happened to Tintaglia, the dragon-mother who started it all? Has she really abandoned her offspring forever? Or will she too return to seek the riches of Kelsingra…
Reviews
‘In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons’ George R. R. Martin
'Hobb is superb, spinning wonderful characters and plots from pure imagination' Conn Iggulden
'Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers… what makes her novels as addictive as morphine is not just their imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and manipulated by politics' The Times
'Hobb is a remarkable storyteller' Guardian
About the author
Robin Hobb is one of the world’s finest writers of epic fiction.She was born in California in 1952 but raised in Alaska, where she learned how to raise a wolf cub, to skin a moose and to survive in the wilderness. When she married a fisherman who fished herring and the Kodiak salmon-run for half the year, these skills would stand her in good stead. She raised her family, ran a smallholding, delivered post to her remote community, all at the same time as writing stories and novels. She succeeded on all fronts, raising four children and becoming an internationally best-selling writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington State.
Customer Reviews
Exceptional once again
To truly escape is to invite Robin Hobb into your life! After waiting for this book and thinking it may be the final of the series, I was pleased to find out there will be more! She has reached the benchmark once again, my greedy imagination soaking the tale up in a week ( I enforced some serious restraint). Now the torture of filling in the wait with another author begins again....
I strongly recommend this series and all Hobb's previous works to anyone after some escapism and imagination in their life, you cannot help but be swept away!
I sat down and read this in an afternoon
I has expected this book to bring the story to a conclusion but 300 pages in it was clear that it wasn't to be. In part this is a good thing because Hobb's characters are engaging and the chance to spend another book or two in their company is a pleasure but it raises the expectations for the next book. If you've read the previous two books you've probably skipped the reviews and just clicked the buy now button, if you haven't read the first two books yet grab them and join the ride. I enjoy Hobbs books for the sense of escapism that they offer and this series has not dissapointed.
Too good to put down
I finished this so quickly. The story had me so immersed. All her characters are so engaging.