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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
Nerilka the whole first chapter: My sisters are ugly. I’m ugly. Our parents look great but the girls all suck. Well, one of my little sisters is dainty so maybe she won’t grow up to be such a dogface like the rest of us. My brothers even have eyelashes! But not us ugly ugly girls. I’m the only one who didn’t get to go to the plague party in the last book, and I wouldn’t have even been too embarrassed about how ugly I am to enjoy myself there, I swear! My impossibly perfect pretty friend helped me be prettier but she died and I’m even uglier now. Do I have any personality traits? Too ugly to tell.
A novella based on one of the minor characters in the novel Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. If you can't get enough of Pern, this is something to read for sure; otherwise reading Moreta will do the job!
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I liked this book, it was a quick read and kind of cool to see from Nerilka's point of view as she was just a minor character in the previous book. However, it was not terribly exciting and about 80% of the book was exactly the same events as the previous one, just from a different point of view. I did appreciate the last 20% where you get to see a few characters you care about end up in different places. Overall, I was not hugely impressed but I did like it well enough. I look forward to reading about something different, the first Fall on Pern, in the next book.
El llibre de Moreta em va agradar molt. Només que, a poques pàgines del final, va deixar anar la bomba, i encara recordo com em va impactar el final de Moreta. El fet que, mig any després, encara em recordi de com em va impactar, suposo que és bastant significatiu.
La història era com totes les altres de Pern... fins que arribava el final. Després, sense saber com, apareixia una noia, la Nerilka, que no sabies ni d'on havia sortit i que es casava amb l'Alessan. Com podia ser que l'Alessan s'hagués casat tan de seguida amb una noia, quan la Moreta acabava de morir? I, d'altra banda, no havien mort totes les filles d'en Tolocamp?
Aquest llibre resol les dues preguntes que havien quedat, i va una mica més enllà.
El llibre és diferent dels altres llibres de Pern, pel fet que la protagonista no és la genet de cap drac. A banda, la Nerilka no té la força que tenia la Moreta o la Lessa. Ja diu ella que no li hagués agradat ser genet de drac. Però té determinació, i explica les coses a la seva manera.
Aquest, com la resta dels llibres de Pern, és un d'aquells llibres que és una petita joia. Crec que, després de llegir Moreta, és necessari llegir aquest per saber d'on ve i cap on va. I, d'altra banda, en cap lloc t'expliquen com és la vida fora dels weyrs, i aquí està molt ben explicat.
En resum: un gran llibre!
Its been a good 25 years or more since I read my last Pern adventure. This has been sitting on a shelf for exactly 30 years and I've finally read it! And I loved it as much as I did all the others so long ago. Unlike another book that I recently finished, McCaffrey's stories always move at a good pace. She never wastes a page. It's a great ride every time