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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
Em va costar entrar una mica en el llibre, i el vaig deixar penjat un temps, perquè segurament no era el moment de llegir-lo. Però quan hi vaig tornar, és un llibre interessant. Es mou en el mateix temps d'història ja llegida, però ara els protagonistes no són els genets de drac, sinó personatges "normals". Bé, no són població normal del tot, però és una altra visió de la història. És interessant.
Best read after Dragonquest, The White Dragon, and The Girl Who Heard Dragons.
Lots of characters and their stories collide here. Thella, the self-styled Lady Holdless, is a delicious villain set to kidnap young Aramina, the girl who can hear dragons. Less focus on the dragonriders, harpers and holders and more on the wanderers whose place is not so assured.
Lots of characters and their stories collide here. Thella, the self-styled Lady Holdless, is a delicious villain set to kidnap young Aramina, the girl who can hear dragons. Less focus on the dragonriders, harpers and holders and more on the wanderers whose place is not so assured.
Definitely not the worst Pern book out there! Let's say that and save it the worry and fret.
I actually rather liked Thella and her attempts to kidnap Aramina and all, it was exciting enough that I did keep reading till the ending, though it did sort of start getting rather extremely predictable.
My big fuss and bother that makes me itch was that the characters really did feel rather flat and the story really was just a story that could have been penned by anyone and his friend.
It didn't have the same deep magic that most Pern books have.
Oh do read it, it is worth it, just know that it's not A.M's best book.
There's hardly even that many dragons!
I know, I was just as shocked!
I actually rather liked Thella and her attempts to kidnap Aramina and all, it was exciting enough that I did keep reading till the ending, though it did sort of start getting rather extremely predictable.
My big fuss and bother that makes me itch was that the characters really did feel rather flat and the story really was just a story that could have been penned by anyone and his friend.
It didn't have the same deep magic that most Pern books have.
Oh do read it, it is worth it, just know that it's not A.M's best book.
There's hardly even that many dragons!
I know, I was just as shocked!
A sprawling story that begins before the return of Thread and Lessa's Ride, The Renegades of Pern was not one of my favorites when I first read it. There are so many characters and it jumps all around in both space and time, but a second reading was much better.
I really appreciated the larger scope of Pern and the chance to see more ordinary people. So many of the other books focus on the Dragonriders and Craftmasters and Lords - the elite of Pern. Here we meet carters and tinkers and holdless people.
On the flip side, it's a reminder of the feudal world that Pern has become and that's not a system I support well. The book still got 4 stars, so I could handle it.
I really appreciated the larger scope of Pern and the chance to see more ordinary people. So many of the other books focus on the Dragonriders and Craftmasters and Lords - the elite of Pern. Here we meet carters and tinkers and holdless people.
On the flip side, it's a reminder of the feudal world that Pern has become and that's not a system I support well. The book still got 4 stars, so I could handle it.
Love Anne McCaffrey she had such a wonderful, boundless imagination and such a vivid and descriptive style, her stories transport the reader into the fantastic world that she created and sweeps you up on the breathtaking adventures. Wonderful!
From the perspective of multiple characters emerge this volume in the Pern series. Rather than dragonriders, many of the characters are those without Hold - whether turned out for their own actions, fleeing a cruel tyrant, or the wandering traders.
Set across a span of years, there is some backstory of Toric as Lord Holder of Southern, as well as the depredations enacted by Thella and her band: she a former lady of Telgar who fled in the night and turned raider when she did not like the engagement her brother arranged.
Also more exploration of the Southern Continent and the Ancient's landing site.
Set across a span of years, there is some backstory of Toric as Lord Holder of Southern, as well as the depredations enacted by Thella and her band: she a former lady of Telgar who fled in the night and turned raider when she did not like the engagement her brother arranged.
Also more exploration of the Southern Continent and the Ancient's landing site.
The Renegades of Pern is a disjointed entry in the Pern series. The time in this book covers the time in Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, the novella The Girl Who Heard Dragons, and the Harper Hall trilogy.
Renegades reads liked a deleted scene reel. It gives some backstory, but putting it all together for its own side story doesn't work well. Because this book parallels the time in the others, it's forced to skip forward to whatever parallel plot plot is happening.
Renegades focuses on Thella, the antagonist from The Girl Who Heard Dragons, and her two targets, Jayge and Aramina. Piemur is at the Southern Hold and gives some perspective of the Oldtimers and the development of the new hold. At the very end, the major characters all come together, and there is some discovery of items left in Landing by the first settlers on Pern.
I was never really interested in Jayge. Thella is interesting, but very one-dimensional. Aramina seemed to have less page time than the novella she was in, which I found strange. Now thinking back, it's hard for me to remember which character had the most focus, and that's probably because there isn't a solid plotline.
I liked that Jaxom and Ruth appear for a brief time in the end. Overall, very little about the dragons and their riders, and no real focus on the people living in holds either. It's essentially everyone on the fringe.
Renegades reads liked a deleted scene reel. It gives some backstory, but putting it all together for its own side story doesn't work well. Because this book parallels the time in the others, it's forced to skip forward to whatever parallel plot plot is happening.
Renegades focuses on Thella, the antagonist from The Girl Who Heard Dragons, and her two targets, Jayge and Aramina. Piemur is at the Southern Hold and gives some perspective of the Oldtimers and the development of the new hold. At the very end, the major characters all come together, and there is some discovery of items left in Landing by the first settlers on Pern.
I was never really interested in Jayge. Thella is interesting, but very one-dimensional. Aramina seemed to have less page time than the novella she was in, which I found strange. Now thinking back, it's hard for me to remember which character had the most focus, and that's probably because there isn't a solid plotline.
I liked that Jaxom and Ruth appear for a brief time in the end. Overall, very little about the dragons and their riders, and no real focus on the people living in holds either. It's essentially everyone on the fringe.
Good short story novel. I particularly enjoyed the story about surrogacy before the Advent of surrogacy in our society
Further adventures of Piemur, Robinton, Aramina, K'van the now grown up Smallest Dragonboy, Lady Holdless Thell (ugh) and the opening of the South Continent and finding Landing and Aivas. I confess I didn't care for the Thell sections, Toric is turning less and less nice, Piemur finally gets a girlfriend, less than fond of Lessa. A very interesting beginning to the book, a new way of introducing characters. All in all a very enjoyable book. Fits in the timeline very well with no glaring inconsistencies.