by Anne McCaffrey, Dick Hill
This was one of the slowest of the Pern series and took a really long time to get into. I think in this case Anne McCaffrey didn't do as well with her style of jumping around in the time stream. This book seems to cover too much time and contained too many gaps that left me wondering what was going ...
So not my favorite. Too many stories. Too much Thella. Not enough Piemur. Too much ground covered. Too much Toric. Not enough Aramina. Not enough Harpers in general. No time to get fully involved in anything. This one's a mess...but it does bring us AIVAS.
Dude, even McCaffrey got bored with her own new (deeply boring) characters halfway through the book, chucked the whole Holdless plotlines for huge swathes, and went back to focusing on Piemur and Toric and the politics of the Southern continent. It irks my sense of order that huge chunks of the thro...
My least favourite of the series.
It took a while to get into this one, simply because I was having to learn a lot of new characters, but I really liked reading this one because it spanned a time period from just before Dragonflight to just beyond The White Dragon, so it filled in some of the characters and plots that the other book...
Not one of my favourites in the series. I read it only because it was in the dragonrider series. It's like reading about gypsies. Although one group was more traveling thugs.
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