Dragon Keeper

About Dragon Keeper

This dragon fantasy novel opens the Rain Wild Chronicles, a spinoff from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings sequence, following a generation of young dragons who have hatched stunted and sickly after centuries of near-extinction. Unable to hunt or fly, barely able to survive, these dragons and the keepers assigned to walk them north toward the legendary Elderling city of Kelsingra form the heart of an unlikely found family built on mutual necessity rather than affection. Robin Hobb builds character relationships the way she always does: slowly, painfully, and with devastating accuracy about how people hide themselves. Thymara, a Rain Wild girl born with the dragon-touched characteristics her society marks as shameful, is one of Hobb's great protagonists — fiercely capable and deeply uncertain about what she deserves. The dragons themselves are magnificent: proud, occasionally cruel, and struggling with the indignity of needing the small, soft creatures they once would have eaten. Dragon Keeper rewards readers willing to invest in its gradual pace; the second book, Dragon Haven, transforms everything set up here into something genuinely extraordinary. For fans of the Farseer Trilogy who want more of Hobb's dragon lore and equally exquisite character work.

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