Blood of Dragons (The Rain Wild Chronicles, Book 4)

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What is doubly surprising is that this is a confrontation we've been anticipating right from the first book of the quadrilogy, and yet it absolutely doesn't disappoint at all. I read the complete Liveship Traders Trilogy and really enjoyed this and decided to read the Rain Wild Chronicles, when I started to read this I was a little disappointed at first because the characters I had grown to know and love in the Liveship Trilogy were no longer the central point of the books but I persevered and was pleased that I did. With Tintaglia out of reach from everyone, the only dragon who can save the baby, Silver in their only hope.

I finished this book sad at having to say goodbye to these characters, but even more eager to read Fool's Assassin, the first book in the next series in the Realm of the Elderlings, Fitz and the Fool. Having been fond of Alise throughout, I was rather moved by her development here, as she learns to accept that her desire for museum-like preservation has no place in Kelsingra’s future. I loved the first nine books (The Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies) and intend to read the last three, so didn’t feel that I could leave out these four in case I missed out on any details or plot points that turned out to be important later.

What can I say I was totally enthralled from start to finish and felt an overwhelming sense of loss once I finished the Rain Wild chronicle 4 books. Although the ending shows all the characters to have developed and changed over the course of the series, the fact that it leaves the world of her novels also changed means it doesn't feel like it's quite the end of things.

Her best known series is The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, and Assassin's Quest. I became quite fond of a few of them (such as Alise, Sedric and Leftrin), but I felt that too much time was spent on the love triangle between Thymara, Rapskal and Tats, and on trying to sort all of the characters into romantic pairings, even the dragons.

She received a grant award from the Alaska State Council on the arts for her short story "The Poaching", published in Finding Our Boundaries in 1980. But I started the first book and just couldn't engage with it at all… perhaps because it was so different (and in a different world) from what I was used to with Hobb. Her initial works were published in small press 'fanzines' such as Space and Time (editor Gordon Linzner). If she had, then by the end of Assassin’s Quest Fitz would have been hailed as the next king of the Six Duchies. This runs for five hundred and thirty five pages, and is divided into twenty two chapters plus a prologue and an epilogue.