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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
Just finished Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper and for me this book was a disappointment. The story progresses really slowly and I never feel for any of the characters. The dragons personalities are just boring. The story ends very abruptly to get you to buy the next book.
I find it strange that it has gotten such high ratings as it has on Amazon.
I'm comparing this book with Naomi Novik's Temeraire series which wins hands down.
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I think it's a very different kind of book to the Temeraire series, which (from the one I've read so far) to be much more action/adventure (very much along Hornblower lines), while Dragon Keeper seems to be more an exploration of a world and its history.
I rather liked it, although I can see that for some it might have been a bit slow. As I read it in a couple of days I didn't mind the pacing.
I was rather cross to find that it's really the first half of one very long book, and that the second half isn't yet out in paperback. (i.e. the ebook version is still ridiculously expensive.) I will probably pick up the second half when it drops in price.