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Laddar... Blood of Dragons: Volume Four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles (urspr publ 2013; utgåvan 2013)av Robin Hobb (Författare)
VerksinformationBlood of Dragons av Robin Hobb (2013)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The ending was too rushed. After spending ages building up to a grand finale, the aftermath was simply told in a single chapter as a “this happened”. Unsatisfying and no real conclusions to any character’s story. Apart from that it was ok. Not the strongest in the series, and ultimately a bit of a let-down. ( ) Volume 4 of this series deals with a lot of spinning plates set up in the first three volumes, and I'm afraid a few are dropped late in the day. The story is now split into a lot of different viewpoints, with some strong ones from Vols 1 and 2 mostly dropped - Alise and Leftrin for example - in favour of less convincing ones such as that of Seldan and Hest. Seldan is being held in Chaldea so that his blood can be drunk by the dying Duke who wants to extend his life until dragon parts can be secured, and is being nursed by the Duke's daughter who is also his victim. Hest, callous, manipulative and selfish husband of Alise and Sedrick's ex-employer and ex-lover, is also heavily featured as we follow his journey upriver towards the city of Kelsingra. He hopes to bring back Alise to take possession of her "share" of the expedition to the city and the imagined Elderling artefacts there, and also to seize Sedrick's "share" as his erstwhile employee. Unluckily for him, the Chaldean conspiracy to obtain dragon parts for their dying Duke, which had drawn him in at the end of book 3, has serious consequences for both him and the luckless companion he has taken along. Other threads are the development of the dragon keepers into Elderlings under the influence of their respective dragons, and the transformation of Rapskal's character, plus the resolution of the love triangle between him, Thymara and Tats. By this time I was rather tired of this storyline. Thymara had been a promising character in book 1 when we were shown a feisty young woman who was trying to break out of the limited life mapped out for her by an intolerant society, but her whole character arc ends up being how and why she chooses her eventual mate. Disappointingly, the choice ends up being rather a default one Another thing that didn't work for me was the resolution of the Hest storyline. The confrontation between him and Alise/Sedrick and his subsequent behaviour The resolution of the series is extremely weak sadly. As ever I enjoyed the dragons and their arrogant, superior and self-centred characters, but also the differences they have developed due to their extended adolescence as serpents. They are far more social than earlier dragons despite their occasional flare ups and aggression. Mercor has been my favourite throughout, developed from the prophet sea serpent and incorporating tolerance, calmness and level-headedness into his dragon incarnation. And the information about the effects of dragons on humans is fleshed out in this final volume also. But sadly that is not enough to counteract the many weaknesses in this concluding part of the saga, and for that reason I can only award an OK 2 stars. Absolutely LOVED the ending to this series. Especially because it seems to indicate that we'll get another trilogy in the near future. I'm not sure why I enjoy these so much more than the Farseer series - but the depth of character and world building the Liveship/Rainwild series is just above and beyond what Hobb has put into Fitz and the Fool's story. In other words - much less brooding in this series and especially this book and a lot more action and community. Absolutely recommend this series to friends! But start with the Liveship Trader Trilogy! YEEES, everything I said I wanted from this one. And it was so exciting along the way, I really didn't want to put it down most of the time! What better thing can you say about the book? Honestly, I didn't see You know, I didn't expect myself to like this series as much as I did when I picked up the first book. It was just another attempt to find some good dragon fantasy, but holy crap did it deliver. I'm so happy I got to go on this adventure with these characters. And I'm more than happy about the ending, everything ended as I wanted it to, maybe with the exception of Rascal. Poor thing. Though in a way I guess he's happy too, so that's good. Will I read more by the author? Maybe?? I know there are other series set in this world, but there won't be any dragons ... hmm. We'll see. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Mythology.
HTML: The final volume in Robin Hobb's popular Rain Wilds fantasy series, Blood of Dragons completes the story of the dragons, their keepers, and their quest to find the lost city of Kelsingra??and the mythical silver wells that the dragons need to survive. Can Tintaglia and the Elderlings unlock the secrets of the ancient city? Or are they doomed to extinction? The world of Robin Hobb's Rain Wilds series has been praised by Booklist as "one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy," and Publishers Weekly called the Rain Wilds books "a meticulously realized fantasy tale" and "a welcome addition to contemporary dragon lore." Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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