Dragon Haven

"Dragon Haven" is Hobb's sequel to "Dragon Keeper", this is the second book in her new "Rain wilds Chronicles".

The story continues where it left off, the dragon keepers are navigating up the river attempting to find the mythical city of the dragons.

 Hobb creates some of the best characters, they are far more real and alive than what you typically find in other novels.  While I don't think the characters in this series are comparable to Fitz from Hobb's earlier work, they are still better than most.  I particularly liked Thymara, a young girl scarred with aftereffects of living in the rain wilds.
   There was one character that could grow mildly irritating, Alise Finbok a middle aged woman who isn't terrible interesting, she also wines a-lot.

 The plot is fairly simple, probably the simplest of any of Hobb's series.  It can more or less be summed up with a single sentence; they travel up a river.

The book does end rather abruptly, although it appears that Hobb is working on another Rain Wilds novel, so this isn't likely to be the real ending.

 I'm a huge Hobb fan, and while this may not be her best novel ever, it is still well written and quite enjoyable.

8.7/10