Blood of Dragons
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4.6 • 104 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin
The final instalment of Robin Hobb’s Sunday Times best-selling series The Rain Wild Chronicles.
Dragons will fly over Kelsingra once more…
Attacked by hunters, Tintaglia is dying of her wounds. If she perishes, her ancestral memories will die with her and the dragons in the ancient city of Kelsingra will lose the secret knowledge they need to survive.
The dragon keepers immerse themselves in the dangerously addictive memory-stone records of the city in the hope of recovering the lost Elderling magic that once allowed humans and dragons to co-exist.
But war is coming: war between dragons and those who would destroy them…
Reviews
'What makes her novels addictive is not just their imaginative brilliance but the way her characters are compromised and manipulated by politics' The Times
‘Hobb is superb’ Conn Iggulden
‘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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fourth Rain Wilds Chronicles epic (after City of Dragons), Hobb's 13th novel set in the world of the Elderlings, wraps up the current set of storylines involving a new generation of dragons and the Elderlings (human-dragon hybrids) who serve and protect them. As most of the dragons and their keepers repopulate and reinvigorate the lost city of Kelsingra, the ailing Duke of Chalced sends people to hunt dragons for their life-extending and transformative properties, and the ancient dragon queen Tintaglia fights for her life. With a wide scope of coverage and a narrative that jumps among members of the sprawling cast, this tale feels both leisurely and unfocused, and knowledge of previous installments is essential to full comprehension. Hobb makes up for this breadth with a wealth of detail and language bordering on poetic.
Customer Reviews
Blood of Dragons
This book was worth waiting for. It tells of everyone's struggles, dragon and Elderlings alike and ends in triumph for them all. Fantastic
Sven994
Wonderful, simply wonderful.......
Review of the Series
Robin Hobbs Elderling stories still hold a fascination but this series of four books didn't hold the interest of the Farseer, Liveship or Tawney man series, mainly because the main characters were not as interesting. I get the feeling after book 2 the Author realised this and more or less parachuted 3 characters from the Liveship series into this story, (Malta, Seldan and Reyan)
Hoping for better from the 'Fitz and the Fool' series, although I still think we should be looking at Wintrow and Eta in the Pirate isles.