Since the mid and late 1990s, I'd heard of Robin Hobb. Friends had read and enjoyed The Farseer Trilogy, which evidently follows the life of a character named Fitz, but somehow I just haven't managed ...

There’s “Puff the Magic Dragon” and “H.R. Puffnstuff,” who was supposed to be a dragon, and “Pete’s Dragon”… but the dragons in Robin Hobb’s new novel, “Dragon Keeper,” are definitely not the fuzzy ...

Here be dragons—but debilitated, deformed, damaged dragons, hatched too soon, sick and starving, into a world that has mostly forgotten them. The first of Hobb's Rain Wild Chronicles, an absorbing ...

AFTER a three-book detour to write “The Soldier Son” trilogy, Robin Hobb has returned to the world where nine of her books have been set — and “Dragon Keeper” (Eos, $26.99, 496 pages) picks up where ...

Each Sunday, Caryn Rupert shares a book from a series. You can read along with her, or add the books to your own reading list. This week, she read “Dragon Keeper,” the first book in The Rain Wilds ...

The second book (after Ship of Magic) in Hobbs's Liveship Traders trilogy solidifies the series's promise as a major work of high fantasy, reading like a cross between Tolkein and Patrick O'Brian.