This was definitely a step up for me as if feels like this is where the story really takes off. This makes a whole lot of since as apparently they were meant to be one larger novel and split in two due to size. Events pick up immediately where the first book leaves off. Read moreĭragon Haven is the second in the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb. Will the expedition reach their destination unscathed? Does the city of Kelsingra even exist? Only one thing is certain: the journey will leave none of the dragons nor their human companions unchanged by the experience. And then there are the Rain Wilds themselves: mysterious, unstable and ever perilous, its mighty river running with acid, its jungle impenetrable and its waterways uncharted. Their traitor has infiltrated the expeditionand will stop at nothing to obtain the coveted body parts.
Chalcedean merchants are keen to lay hands on dragon blood and organs to turn them to medicines and profit. Rivalries and romances are already threatening to disrupt the band of explorers: but external forces may prove to be even more dangerous.
With them are Alise, who has escaped her cold marriage to the cruel libertine Hest Finbok in order to continue her study of dragons, and Hest's amanuensis, Bingtown dandy, Sedric. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the forests for game with which to keep the dragons fed. The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the second instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy.
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