Dragongirl
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Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen Talenth, has returned from the past, where she and a group of dragons and riders fled so that the wounded could heal from their previous battles with Thread and the younger dragons could safely grow to fighting age. Gone only three days, yet aged more than three years, Fiona is no longer a child but a woman prepared to fight against the Thread that threatens to ruin her world.
Fiona’s life takes a pivotal turn when a shocking tragedy thrusts her into a position of power. Now she finds herself leading weyrfolk who have a hard time trusting a senior Weyrwoman who is both young and an outsider.
But even greater challenges lie yet to be: Thread is falling and there are too few dragons to stem the tide. Many have died from the recent plague, and even with the influx of newly mature dragons from the past, the depleted fighting force is no match for the intensifying Threadfall. Fiona knows that something must be done, and what she proposes is daring and next to impossible. But if her plot succeeds, it just might save them all.
With a cast of familiar characters from previous Pern novels—including Lorana, who sacrificed her own queen dragon so that all the dragons of Pern would have a chance to survive, and Kindan, the harper Fiona has loved her whole life—Dragongirl is another triumph for Todd McCaffrey, and a riveting new chapter for the Dragonriders of Pern.
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This book continues the tale of Fiona, T’Mar, Lorana & Kindan and their fight to save the dragons. I couldn’t place it down the first 200 pages flew by then it slowed a bit. This is a sad book the Weyrs don’t have enough dragons to glide thread so there are a lot of injuries and deaths in this book , one that nearly made me weep (No Spoilers).
There is a lot of drama and action Fiona is one incredible weyrwoman she fights to keep the moral up when some just reflect everything is lost. Which this book seems to say at times. I hope this tale arc is not the end of the Pern series. The blurb at the end says that Anne will be writing the next book with Todd to join him in the final drama of his tale of Pern. I sure hope that it’s just this storyline and not all of Pern that is ending!
I really loved this book it was like going back to see ancient friends you have missed. These characters are well written fully fleshed out. I just did not like the cliffhanger ending but if that is the worst thing I can say about it then I would say I loved it!
4 ½ Stars
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
It takes a while to get into Todd’s writing, when we have spent a lifetime with his mother. But he gets the job done and the books are excellent. His plots (and people) are convoluted and sometimes confusing, but he is right to Pern. I will miss reading Anne’s writing, but Todd will do his best to fill the gap, and I will be buying his books.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
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Todd McCaffrey hit his stride as a writer in this book. I have been to some extent disappointed with his earlier works, appealing though they were, because he permanently seemed to be playing off his mother’s work, much the way guitarists get together and make semi-new composition by playing off one another’s riffs. In Dragonblood he made the virtually unwarrantable error of building Wind Blossom Fund Ping’s daughter, when in fact she was her granddaughter; I cannot imagine how that got past both his mother and the editors. Although he introduced many new characters and plot fundamentals into his later books, such things as learning better sources of firestone after the original sources had been lost and dragons and humans were being killed by a treacherous substitute; learning and naming the coal mine that would later be called cromcoal; and expanding the shunning that had been inflicted on Ted Tubberman to a degree so drastic as to make a society of untouchables all made me feel that he was playing not just his mother’s game; he was also playing with her toys.
But in Dragongirl I felt that he was giving us a tale of his own that did not play off his mother’s work. Of course he is still effective in a world he did not make, which is hard at best, but I was very pleased with the treatment of characters he had introduced previously as well as his new characters. In a very few places he still used the incorrect word, although it was permanently clear what word he meant, but he did far less of that than in his previous books.
I am astonished that it has been reviewed so terribly by additional readers. I am a writer and editor–I have been a writer for 60 years and an editor for 25 years, and had I been in charge of purchasing I would have snapped this up in a hasten. I do not find it too conversation-heavy; at no time did I have the feeling that I was reading talking heads. I thought the balance between dialog and narrative was exactly right.
To sum up, I liked this book and I expect the rest of his work to be equal to it or better than it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Todd McCaffrey’s writing of the pern series is getting better with each book. I really loved this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I just loved the book, I am a huge fan of the Pern series and can’t wait until the tale continues mid next year. Reading these tales is like being with an extended family tree.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5