Favorite Fantasy Author Starts New Trilogy

One of my favorite fantasy authors, Robin Hobb, has just published the first book in a new trilogy.  Dragon Keeper begins with the hatching of the rescued sea serpents which the great blue dragon, Tintaglia, led up to their hatching grounds.  Unfortunately, the dragons which emerge are not the magnificent creatures of old, but are mostly small, deformed and unable to fly.  A group of misfits and outcasts is formed to escort the sickly creatures up the Rain River to their legendary home far away in the mountains.  Hobb has set three other trilogies,  Liveship Traders,  Tawny Man and Farseer, in this same fascinating world.  If you’ve read any of the other books, you will be pleased to greet many of the same characters in the new book.