Mar-24-2013, 01:52 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Mar-24-2013, 01:56 AM (UTC) by Wolfang.)
Greetings everyone, I would like to start off by saying hello to everyone here 
Anyhow, I'll delve right into then. I read the RotE books as well as the S'sS trilogy a 'long' time ago. Recently (a few months ago) I raided my local bookstore, by that I mean the only English-book store in the country with enough fantasy to keep me satiated aka Waterstones in Brussels, you see, I was studying for my exams and needed a foot and a half long pile of fresh books in reserve to read once I had finished studying all things economic.
Amongst the books I scavanged were Dragon Haven and City of Dragons. I had read Dragon Keeper the first time I'd ravaged through RB's extensive list of trilogies. I was excited to see they were both out, you see, I had recently once again re-read the entire RB series again (this time reading the Tawny Man trilogy after the Liveship trilogy as opposed to after the assassin trilogy ), excepting Dragon Keeper, I wanted to read the entire RWC series in one go.
Time passed by, and as all things do, my exams came to an end. I started reading additions to another series I had also re-read, but these were extremely dissapointing, and by the time I was on my second book in the series, I didn't feel like going on (even though I was just pages away from the end). This week, however, I was determined to end it, and brought Dragon Keeper with me to my 'kot', basically a student's dorm room. I finished reading the book in a day.
I was eager to return home, to read DH and CoD. Today, I read Dragon Haven and have just finished CoD. As I was nearing the end of CoD, I couldn't believe it when the knots and character lives weren't being set in place, but rather things were getting ever more complicated. The Duke of Chalced appearing quite extensively in the end, and Tintaglia, who had been spotted above Chalced, hadn't freed Selden and hadn't killed the Duke of Chalced in the process. Furthermore, Hest and his mother had NOT been murdered by the Chalcedian assassin, but rather he has been spurred on to seek riches and satisfaction. At this point I'm counting the pages, looking frantically back and forth and wondering how the hell Robin Hobb was going to pull this off. I mean, Reyn, Malta and his child haven't even reached the city yet, and they're being followed by either a 'gold-rush', pariahs in society looking for a new beginning, or Chalcedian scum.
It was only when I reached the epilogue that I accepted the fact to be true. Robin Hobb, Miss Trilogy, had tricked me! I would be forced to once again wait until the series was truly ended, by which time I might have forgotten the little details. I rushed to the nearest laptop (my mother's) jumped on the internet and surfed. Blood of Dragons. Release date: 2013. Nooooooooo! I would be forced to wait another year. But then I thought, what if right now, it is 2013. A student's life is not really affected by dates and time, I've spent most of my new years and chritsmasses in a daze, studying for my exams. I slowly hovered my mouse to the bottom right of my screen. It was indeed 2013 and not 2012.
I then quickly looked up the release date, April, 2013. Not March. I would be forced to wait a month. I decided I would look up and skim some forums to read what other people thought about the series, as I usually do (I have never actually signed up to a book-forum before). Having found this forum I was confused to see one of the threads named "Blood of Dragons". I read the first feww posts before realising these people were actually reading the book. I backed out (didn't want to read spoilers), registered, and made this post.
When and where can I buy Blood fo Dragons?
Anyhow, I'll delve right into then. I read the RotE books as well as the S'sS trilogy a 'long' time ago. Recently (a few months ago) I raided my local bookstore, by that I mean the only English-book store in the country with enough fantasy to keep me satiated aka Waterstones in Brussels, you see, I was studying for my exams and needed a foot and a half long pile of fresh books in reserve to read once I had finished studying all things economic.
Amongst the books I scavanged were Dragon Haven and City of Dragons. I had read Dragon Keeper the first time I'd ravaged through RB's extensive list of trilogies. I was excited to see they were both out, you see, I had recently once again re-read the entire RB series again (this time reading the Tawny Man trilogy after the Liveship trilogy as opposed to after the assassin trilogy
), excepting Dragon Keeper, I wanted to read the entire RWC series in one go.Time passed by, and as all things do, my exams came to an end. I started reading additions to another series I had also re-read, but these were extremely dissapointing, and by the time I was on my second book in the series, I didn't feel like going on (even though I was just pages away from the end). This week, however, I was determined to end it, and brought Dragon Keeper with me to my 'kot', basically a student's dorm room. I finished reading the book in a day.
I was eager to return home, to read DH and CoD. Today, I read Dragon Haven and have just finished CoD. As I was nearing the end of CoD, I couldn't believe it when the knots and character lives weren't being set in place, but rather things were getting ever more complicated. The Duke of Chalced appearing quite extensively in the end, and Tintaglia, who had been spotted above Chalced, hadn't freed Selden and hadn't killed the Duke of Chalced in the process. Furthermore, Hest and his mother had NOT been murdered by the Chalcedian assassin, but rather he has been spurred on to seek riches and satisfaction. At this point I'm counting the pages, looking frantically back and forth and wondering how the hell Robin Hobb was going to pull this off. I mean, Reyn, Malta and his child haven't even reached the city yet, and they're being followed by either a 'gold-rush', pariahs in society looking for a new beginning, or Chalcedian scum.
It was only when I reached the epilogue that I accepted the fact to be true. Robin Hobb, Miss Trilogy, had tricked me! I would be forced to once again wait until the series was truly ended, by which time I might have forgotten the little details. I rushed to the nearest laptop (my mother's) jumped on the internet and surfed. Blood of Dragons. Release date: 2013. Nooooooooo! I would be forced to wait another year. But then I thought, what if right now, it is 2013. A student's life is not really affected by dates and time, I've spent most of my new years and chritsmasses in a daze, studying for my exams. I slowly hovered my mouse to the bottom right of my screen. It was indeed 2013 and not 2012.
I then quickly looked up the release date, April, 2013. Not March. I would be forced to wait a month. I decided I would look up and skim some forums to read what other people thought about the series, as I usually do (I have never actually signed up to a book-forum before). Having found this forum I was confused to see one of the threads named "Blood of Dragons". I read the first feww posts before realising these people were actually reading the book. I backed out (didn't want to read spoilers), registered, and made this post.
When and where can I buy Blood fo Dragons?
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