BOOKS LIKE DRAGON KEEPER CHRONICLES SERIES
If you like reading about angsty women very slowly and tediously throwing off their oppression with a few dragons plodding along for company then you will probably give this series 5 stars. Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their. The 3rd and 4th book meandered aimlessly with no discernible plot until 80% of the way through book 4, something interesting happened, and I thought it was finally going to get interesting, but no, the potentially exciting events are brushed over in a handful of pages and its back to the drivel, and then its all over. The first two books in the series had focus, getting the dragons to Kelsingra, and though I didn't like them, the end of book 2 had a conclusion and in my opinion the series should have stopped there. I hated the characters, they were more like stereo types than real people, the good guys so virtuous and goodly they made me want to vomit, and the two dimensional bad guys blandly followed the bad guy role. Looking at all those 5 star reviews my opinion clearly isn't in synch with the majority, but I found it increasingly difficult to care what happened next. I bought all four books in the series before reading the first one because Robin Hobb is one of those authors who has never let me down, until now. I’m certainly moving straight on to the sequel. It’s well done, with a deepening lore, and I’m sure that once I feel more engaged with these characters I will enjoy the remaining section of this trilogy just as much as I’ve enjoyed the previous ones. The human characters are a pack of young Rain Wilders more marked by that harsh environment than most of their families and chosen to guide the heavily dependent dragon young upriver to try and find a mythical Elderling city. Here we are more focused on the dragons who aren’t dragons, those that we last saw as serpents, or at least the few surviving members of the tangle who made it out of their casings to emerge as weakened versions of the awesome Tintaglia and Icefyre.
It may also be because I’ve been so deep in Fitz’s world for his books where all of the action is seen through his eyes, that returning to a multiple perspective book feels a bit of a jolt. Amazing.An Elderlings book that I’ve only given four stars to? I suspect this is largely because I have not yet become immersed in this world, and the number of different characters - some of whom are arrogant dragons - haven’t given me a hook to really be bought into this next section of the Elderlings series.ĭespite brief appearances by Malta Althea, Brashen and Paragon from the Liveship Traders series, this almost feels like a completely separate set of books. You can tell from the first book he wasn’t expecting to be asked to write another and when he was he had to change. Also, the amount of Retcon in the second book is just. There’s also about 7 viewpoint characters, which is another love of mine. I think the second book, Disney at Dawn, is possibly my favorite as it introduces a pressing narrative danger as well as a mysterious list of ~clues~ to follow. So the idea of the characters walking around and living in a “character world” as well as the concept of the inner workings of the parks and the world there being important was really cool. a teenager and various romantic and coming of age tropes, but I think what I liked about it the most is that growing up I wasn’t ever really a huge Disney fan? I liked the movies ok, but we don’t live near a park and I had very few friends to pass on the “magical branding” concept.
It veers a little more into the YA branch, since it follows like. This was maybe the last series I read before I really stopped reading.
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