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Blood of Dragons

By: Robin Hobb
Narrated by: Avita Jay
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Summary

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.

 Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Historical Dragons Mythology Military
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Critic 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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These books are wonderful but I didn't like the fact that they were read by different people. This mucks about with the sense of continuity and feeling of knowing the characters. Their accents and ways of speaking are all over the place!!

Truly brilliant author - poor performance

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great storyline as always.
it's always a shame when the narrator changes between books unfortunately this time there were no gaps between scene changes. you could be with one character watching something about to happen... and in the next breath you change to a new scene, different characters and different part of the story.

storyline gaps

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As with all the audio books for the Elderling series the thing that annoys me the most is the lack of a sufficient pause between scene changes. When the story goes from one place to another it can be confusing. This is a problem with the editing and not the narrator.

Issues with the Editing of narration

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I Loved this series of books can't wait to find a new series from this author

Great series

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While it can be said that the narration on this final book was at a decent level, it is beset by the same issues as the other books.

Truthfully - this nonsense would have had me bin any other series off.

However - the story and writing is simply awesome.

Let’s hope whoever decided the narration is far far away from the team that does a TV series (if one happens)

ANOTHER NARRATOR WHY?!?!?!?

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