A beginning that promise!

From the first pages, the first words, it is a "homecoming". We find pleasure Desert Rains and city reconstruction Terrileville.

Everything is there: the vivenefs, snakes, Tintaglia the dragon ... Each page is a pleasure for the mind. The references to the hero of "sea adventurers" and "Royal Assassin" are present, but the new heroes of this story are, in turn, of new.

Alise, enamored of stories about the elders and the dragoons, losing in an arranged marriage which only gives him suffering.
Thymara, a teenage girl who should never have been born, rejected by society at Desert Rains, except his father.
Leftrin, captain of a vivenef and holds a secret that could kill him.
Armadillo, tattooed young slave who has no one else in life that her friend Thymara ...

And of course: the dragons whose life changes in tragedy when their outbreaks ...

So many destinies that will intersect to our delight.

Robin Hobb confirms the start of saga, his immense talent, a rare talent, which we take guts and does not let us ... more