City of dragons (spoilers)

[Valarya]

Rapskal is still a darling boy and remains my favourite character along with his Heeby of course. Alise, on the other hand, isn't in my top ten any longer

I had the exact same reaction at the end of the book as you. Rapskal = favorite! I never really liked Alise, though... so she stayed down at the bottom where she belongs. Bwahaha.

And honestly: it's quite unfair to complain about the Kindle price or that the book has 200 pages less than the others, etc.. What do people expect??? If I like a book it doesn't matter how many pages it has. I buy it because I must have it.

Actually, I think it's extremely fair to complain about it. The Justice department is going after companies right now for how much they're charging on e-books. Of course that isn't the author's fault.. but it most certainly is fair to complain about it, lol.

The reader, who is really interested in Robins books, will know, that the Rainwild Chronicles were originally supposed to be a trilogy and ended up with one more book because of the complexity of the story.

Hrm, I believe it was just going to be a stand-alone book.. then it became two books. Then four. And honestly? I think it's bullshit that the RWC consists of 4 separate books. The first book is pretty much only an intro. It feels like a 50-page intro where you're learning a couple of characters. That's it. It's ridiculous, actually. The first two books could have EASILY been just one book. And a good first book, when altogether. Separately, they're shit. Same goes for book 3. By itself, it's bullshit. I'm sure along with book 4 it would make much more sense.

Sorry, but I think you can tell I'm pretty annoyed by the RWC. I like that I get to read more of Hobb's writing in this most-amazing world I love, but I will stand up and say a million times that I was EXTREMELY disappointed at the fact it was 4 tiny books instead of 2 good-sized ones. It actually cheapened the whole ordeal for me and made me feel betrayed. Almost like her publishers were trying to extract as much money out of her readers as they could by chopping the story up in to such tiny pieces.