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Narrated by:
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Avita Jay
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By:
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Robin Hobb
About this listen
The final instalment of Robin Hobb’s Sunday Times best-selling series The Rain Wild Chronicles.
Dragon blood and scales, dragon liver and eyes and teeth. All required ingredients for medicines with near-miraculous healing powers. The legendary blue dragon Tintaglia is dying of wounds inflicted by hunters sent by the Duke of Chalced, who meanwhile preserves his dwindling life by consuming the blood of the dragon’s poet Selden Vestrit.
If Tintaglia 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. Their keepers immerse themselves in the dangerously addictive memory-stone records of the city in the hope of recovering the Elderling magic that once allowed humans and dragons to co-exist. In doing so they risk losing their own identities, even their lives.
And danger threatens from beyond the city, too. For war is coming: war between dragonkind and those who would destroy them.
©2018 Robin Hobb (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers LimitedCritic 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)
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- Shelley
- 25-03-2023
Fantastic
A thoroughly enjoyable series. Great ending to an engaging story. Highly recommended to all lovers of dragon tales.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-06-2019
More Dragons than you can poke a stick at
Listened to the whole story going to and from work over many months. loved it
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- Jean Franklin
- 24-11-2018
lovely story, good reading enjoyed listening to it
loved it good reading enjoyed listening to it. finding it difficult to find the next one in the series.
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- samantha
- 21-05-2019
I need more
I wish so much that we're was more to this series very relatable and entertaining
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- Meg
- 26-04-2023
So well written
I felt like I was there with them. I can see the city it is so well described. Fantastic story and a beautiful ending.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-2022
Enjoyed re-experiencing this series.
The ending was better than I remembered. It finished off all of the story threads well.
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- Ali J
- 19-06-2021
Too many narrator changes
My ONLY complaint with any of Robin Hobbs series is the change of narrator. There were 3 different narrators for this series and I found the change of character voices and accents and the different pronunciation of certain words quite annoying. The story, as with ALL of Robins work, was superb. 🧡
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- Milly G
- 30-08-2024
Does no one check these recordings??
How did this reading pass muster when, in the very first chapter, the reader pronounces Liveship as if the word were “to live”?? She pronounces “tears in Icefire’s wings” as “teers.” It is as though they do a first run through and simply publish it.
The constant changes of perspective are hard to follow in an audiobook as there is nothing to indicate the shift, no chapter titles or similar to indicate the change. This can be jarring when, for example, shifting between Carson and Hest. I’m not sure how this could be handled better but it was disconcerting in this book in a way I haven’t previously found.
The story is fine, neatly wrapped up as always by Hobb but I cannot be the only person who finds this series somewhat disappointing. I wish she had written another one to expand the story beyond the teen romances and to get proper endings for some of the characters.
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- Charm Harris
- 19-03-2021
Narration lets it down
Lack of pauses between scene changes was very confusing. Young male voices were not well done - they often seemed expressionless and hushed even when they were supposed to be shouting
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- Siva Gounder
- 06-05-2019
epic series!
In classic Hobb style it was a marathon where character development took time and went deep. I must admit it was a slow starter but like most of her stories twisted and turned and delivered a fitting end. onto the next one !
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