Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.”

Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #1) by Robin Hobb

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This is the fourth series overall set in Robin Hobb’s Elderlings world, and the second that takes place in the Rain Wilds, with the liveships and dragons, after The Liveship Traders. I continue to be very, very glad I gave her another chance as an author. I loved revisiting this world and seeing characters from Liveship again, but here we get an all-new set of characters to follow for four books, including a dragon POV! Please do not read further if you haven’t read The […]

A five star trilogy.

Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man, #3) by Robin Hobb

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I can’t even tell you how glad I am that I gave Robin Hobb’s books another chance. It was totally worth it just for this trilogy alone. I don’t even know if I’ve had a turnaround this notable on a fictional character before. After I finished the first Fitz trilogy, I thought I was done, that her writing was not for me, and that Fitz’s story was definitely one that just didn’t resonate with me. And then on a whim years later I decided to […]

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”

The Golden Fool (The Tawny Man, #2) by Robin Hobb

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Hoo boy. Yet another entry in this series has gotten me so involved that I can’t stop thinking about it, and also am upset deep down in my core at some of the heart-wrenching things that went on here. I truly feel these gifs are the only thing that convey my feelings: Thankfully, there were some heartwarming things accompanying the agony otherwise I would not have survived. I was a bit nervous of this one, because we were headed back to Buckkeep and to court, […]

I’m so, so glad I got back into Robin Hobb’s books. Totally worth it.

Fool's Errand (The Tawny Man, #1) by Robin Hobb

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It’s been a few weeks now* and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how much this book ensorcelled me, and how weird that felt after my (mostly) negative experience with the first Fitz trilogy a handful of years back. I suppose I should have seen this coming, though, with how much I loved The Liveship Traders, but a lot of things I didn’t like about the first Fitz trilogy were actually addressed here, and I’m sure there’s a bit of me in this […]

The Rain Wild Chronicles – Ragtag band of misfits and dragons find a home

The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

City of Dragons by Robin Hobb

Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb

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  CBR13 Bingo (in order) – Travel, The Wilds, Cityscape, Home I’ve read the other books in Robin Hobbs interlinked series many times, and the Farseer Trilogy is one of my favourite alltime reads.  But for some reason I’d passed over the Rain Wild Chronicles until now.  Maybe I’d heard it was a weaker link in the chain?  If so, I heard right.  The characters lack the depth and humanity I expect from Hobb, and were too neatly paired off by the series end.  Nothing […]

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”

The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2) by Robin Hobb

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This book does what it wants. I kept trying to read it faster than it wanted me to read it, and it took me twice as long as I thought it would. Not because it was bad, but because it was Too Much and I kept having to stop and process things. Also, sometimes when books stress me out I have to put them down because who knows what fool thing is going to happen next, and that was also going on here as well. […]



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