I put the very first Robin Hobb book on hold, as well as the first book in the Rain Wild series. Dragon Keeper should come well before Assasin's Apprentice.
For a dragon based series, I really enjoyed The Lady Trent Memoirs by Marie Brennon
https://us.macmillan.com/series/theladytrentmemoirs
I describe the books as sort of a steampunk version of Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters (pen name of real Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) which I consider perfect "summer" reads. Not very long books in general, Amerlia is a doughty Victorian Egyptologist who gets in various adventures... Although there are murders and such,they are rather light hearted/low gore. In general, although I love Amelia Peabody, I haven't found the many other books as appealing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Mertz