A review by bookcrazylady45
Sky Dragons by Todd McCaffrey, Anne McCaffrey

3.0

As I am reading this series on the timeline not on publishing dates, I ended up reading a lot of Todd and Todd and Anne and now have all Anne to look forward to. This book fit in okay with the timeline and filled gaps and was a good bridge but I have a feeling it would not make a good standalone book even for a long time Pern reader. I do think a lot of the not very kind reviews from people who would rather have no Pern books than any written by anyone else, especially Anne's children, are a bit off. I am grateful as hell that they picked up the baton and kept the world alive. If the books are not as absolutely great as Anne would have written them...so what. I have read so many series where the original writer kept putting out new books every year for 30 years and the quality deteriorated badly but fans are so desperate for the series to continue that they keep buying them and complaining but buying them and begging the writer to continue. This really is no different. I can never understand people who continue to buy only to bitch. Stop buying and move on or write your own...that is what fan fiction is for...if you think you can do better.