![]() The dragon keeper role is to maintain the site off season and to encourage people to respect and enjoy the sanctuary which this oasis of calm provides during the festival. She has held the position of Dragon Keeper since 2012. Sarah has worked at Glastonbury festival for nearly 30 years and in the green fields for over 20. The other dragons were temporary although the fire dragon was made from clay from the festival site and inside was an egg so when it was fired as an earth kiln it left a baby dragon! ![]() This particular dragon represents water, there was also an air dragon, earth dragon and a fire dragon. This dragon was built by Ray Brooks in 1994 as part of a circle of dragons. Watch this space.Delores Targaryen, auntie to Daenerys, is a dragon keeper at Glastonbury. However I am still keen to dabble in some of Hobb’s previous series. I’m not left feeling desperate to finish the trilogy. Robin Hobb is obviously a master at what she does, but I can’t help feeling my first foray into her work began with a slightly substandard work. Thymara leaves the prejudices and judgements of her hometown with a group of other misfits and begins to realise she can fend for herself and live amongst those that will not judge her. She volunteers to journey upriver with the group of dragons to find the fabled Elderling city of Kelsingra. Her storyline is perhaps the most believable and intriguing of the lot. Then we have Thymara, a young girl marked by the scales and deformities of a child that should have been abandoned at birth. He fell flat because he simply was not believable as a character. Rounded characters do, of course, have these conflicting traits, but Sedric was never here nor there. Sometimes presented as sympathetic, other times a self-absorbed apathetic ass, I was never quite sure what to make of Sedric. Hest’s secretary and Alise’s guard as she journeys through the Rain Wilds in search of the dragons. Perhaps the greatest enigma of the book is Sedric. Alise remains infuriatingly meek and sombre. ![]() We will Alise to discard the shackles of her confined life with Hest, discard her skirts and roam barefoot on the ship’s deck with Leftrin by her side for the rest of her days. Alise and Captain Leftrin find themselves falling in love with one another which is where it gets interesting. He falls for the meek and timid Alise Kincarrion, a gentle academic forced to marry the abominable arsehole Hest Finbok. We have Captain Leftrin, a rogue Han Solo type, who finds a piece of wizardwood (aka old dragon cocoon) and fortifies his ship with the magical substance. The other characters are marginally more riveting. She is furious, proud and, quite frankly, pretty dislikeable. When Sisquara does emerge as the dragon Sintara, she is equally difficult to like or engage with. But I just found it impossible to engage with her. She has reptilian traits and desires that are obviously going to be different from my own. She needs to reach the shore to cocoon herself with her own serpent-spit-cement so she can emerge as a fully-formed dragon in the spring. Here’s where my issues with the characters began. The book opens through the eyes of the serpent Sisarqua. There are various story threads, but they all centre around the birth of a group of new dragons in the swampy and inhospitable Rain Wilds. ![]() Hobb’s The Dragon Keeper is the first in The Rain Wild Chronicles. Eager to dabble deeper into the realms of epic fantasy, I was keen to try one of the biggest female names in the genre. Martin, who has made fantasy ‘cool’ again. There are some heavyweight male names knocking around the place, spearheaded by George R. As a female fantasy author, the idea of Robin Hobb really excited me. ![]()
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