Ghosts and Dragons :)

So, I did finish Ghost Huntress Book Two: The Guidance yesterday. I quite enjoyed it - as I expected. I would like to know a bit more about Courtney's animosity and it's cause, but at least she's not being totally rude to Kendall anymore - not that I'm glad that she had to go through what she did (except in that it led to the kinder behavior). I'm still amazed that Kendall hasn't figured out who Emily really was - between Loreen's initial comments about their connection, and her comments to Kendall's mom I was pretty sure I knew - especially when Emily said she's always been with Kendall and that she and Kendall were friends until Kendall was told that she shouldn't have imaginary friends. My suspicion was confirmed when Kendall's mom saw (and reacted to) Celia's drawing of Emily and even more so with the vision Kendall had at the end of the book about Emily and how she died. I don't know the exact details, but I hope the third book will explain that. I also suspect that I'll be a bit disappointed at the end of the next book - it is supposed to be the final book in the series and I think I'd enjoy reading more about these friends so it will be sad.

I have now started Robin Hobb's new book Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles. So far it is quite good - I have fairly quickly returned the world of The Farseer Trilogy, The Liveship Traders Trilogy (the first of her books I'd read), and The Tawny Man Trilogy. I also like that characters from these other books are also in this one, even if they're not the main characters anymore. The new dragons are hatching, so to speak. I am however, not very pleased at the moment with Leftrin, but do have to agree with one of his thoughts: "Of those other 'logs' that had been sawed into timber for ships, how many had contained viable dragons? No one spoke of that. Not even the liveships willingly discussed the dragons that they might have been." Wizardwood, so useful, and yet, so wrong to use. I'm reminded of the stories of many endagered species through the experience/ideas about dragons.