A review by albatrossonhalfpointe
The Renegades of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

2.0

I might not hate this book so much if it were a kind of supplement, like Nerilka's Story. I'd almost certainly skip it in 90% of my series re-reads, but I wouldn't hate its very existence. But what we have here is, frankly, just obnoxious, because a significant chunk of the book is this story about people we've never met and don't care about, but there's just enough connection to the main series storyline that you're going to miss important details — including a rather critical bit that comes between the end of The White Dragon and the beginning of All the Weyrs of Pern — if you skip it.

That said, I kept track on this read-through, so if you want to skip all the Jayge-Aramina-Thella stuff, you can do so by reading the following (in the mass market, ISBN ending 335, edition):
52-66, 67-73, 88-93, 121-125, 141-144, 166-169, 196-274, 277-303, 320-end.
If you don't care about Piemur and the general goings on at Southern Hold, you could probably skip just about everything except the last two chunks.