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Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

7 reviews

cerilouisereads's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Misogyny

keelirae113's review

adventurous hopeful tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief, Kidnapping, Animal death, and Child death

jackiepreston's review

adventurous 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

3.0

I can see why this book/series has inspired so many fantasy writers since it was published, but reading it for the first time with a solid background in fantasy, it was slow and a little boring in parts. The entire first section (of four) was so slow I almost put the book down. Only my curiosity about why this series has been so enduring got me to push through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Sexism

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Child abuse, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Rape, and Body shaming

erebus53's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

My mother put me onto these books and I knew the premise of the world but had never actually got around to reading them for  myself until recently. I got the "searing spore-threads fall from the sky and need to be cleared by dragon mounted riders before the spores land and carnage ensues".. but now I understand why this series is known for having a convoluted timeline. Timespace teleporting  dragons.

Set on Pern, a planet that is an abandoned human colony, we have a moderately low-tech setting with its own distinct flora and fauna. Having read the Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums books I'm now wondering which order I should read the other titles in! Despite being first published in 1968, I was interested to see that the language used in the writing was still pretty modern in feel. I wonder if this is because of the setting being pseudo-medieval; it's a lot easier to age "modern" and "futuristic" settings by how prominent cigarettes are and how clunky the tech and attitudes toward it feel.

I enjoyed the story of a woman who has had hardships but is no saint. She can be impulsive and  messes up frequently and is very stubborn, in ways that male characters in fantasy have often been allowed to get away with unchallenged. It's refreshing to see someone powerful and self-directed, and interesting to see her being sneaky and under-handed while still basically likeable. She is powerful but gets overwhelmed in utterly overwhelming situations, and this humanises her quite a bit.

I can see how Anne McCaffrey has been really influential in fantasy writing. Her basic sci-fi sensibilities underpin a fantasy that is immersive and believable. The magic of it is mysterious and we get a sense that we are experiencing something that is not what we know, but only because we haven't learned enough yet. This is key to magical realism that really grabs me.. (and thinking on that I can see why books like Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan really caught my attention). It's internally consistent.

Looking forward to reading more of these as I get hold of them!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Gore, Sexual assault, Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Colonisation, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

trillingconclusion's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Infidelity, and Fatphobia

mirtlifthewise's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Toxic relationship and Violence