Dragon Keeper discussion (WARNING: CONTAINS UNMARKED SPOILERS)

[Lord Punctual]

Well I must admit that until I read this thread I was one of /those people/ who did not realize that the RWC was one book split into two. That makes much more sense! I was a little baffled at the way that DK ended, and thought that Ms. Hobb was just suddenly experimenting with monstrously precipitous cliff hangers.

I'm actually glad that this isn't in fact a trilogy, because I thought that the story wrapped up pretty well in DK. I would like to know more about what happens with our merry band of misfits, but then again I almost always want to know more about what happens to the characters after the end of a story. In the past, with other authors, I've found that in stories that follow a group of people on a journey, and then have a concluding volume about what happens when they reach said place, usually would have ended better before said volume. (Wow, that sentence was a lot more convoluted than I meant for it to be. Sigh.)