Rain Wilds Chronicles City of Dragons, Book 3, (Paperback)

from salimbol

While I'm enjoying the characters and the overall themes as much as ever, this book feels more than a bit piecemeal: we touch down with characters and their stories in a fairly scattershot and sometimes repetitious manner, not enough happens overall to give it as much coherence as it should have,...

from Unreachableshelf

I was surprised to find out this book existed because the first two volumes of the Rain Wilds Chronicles stood very well on their own, and because when they were first being published they were described as one big book cut in half because of the size. However, Robin Hobb thoroughly justifies thi...

from Kassilem

Here's another great book by Hobb. I don't think I've read anything by her that I didn't like. These books aren't action packed or fast reads, but instead focus on character development and an intriguing world. This third book in the series seems to be the lag in three books because there is a se...

from JeremyPreacher

City of Dragons is where the series really starts to pick up, in a bunch of ways. The adventurers have found the city they have been searching for, but making any use of it will require everyone to change and grow (sometimes literally.) Meanwhile, back home, news of the expedition is making waves...

from mooingzelda

City of Dragons picks up a little while after the end of Dragon Haven. But where Dragon Haven felt like a big improvement on Dragon Keeper in terms of character development and pace, City of Dragons goes back to the first book's slow plod through a plot that doesn't develop all that much from the...