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evakristin 's review for:
Dragonsong
by Anne McCaffrey
If I was twenty years younger, so in my early teens, I'm sure I would have liked this book alot better. As it is, there are to many annoying people in it.
This is the third, and last, Dragonriders book I read. The reason I made it this far, is the truly fascinating world and society McCaffrey has created. But she just cannot create believable people! They are all shallow and stereotypical, the relationships between them are strange, if not disturbing, and McC has them acting in illogical ways to help her weak plot along.
Take our heroine, Menolly. She has managed to grow up without a single person caring about her. No family member (except maybe her brother, Alemi, but he couldn't be bothered to go out and search for her when she had been missing for days, and they just had a clue she might be alive and a pretty good idea where she might be, because "there was a drizzle". Some broter!), no friends (except maybe the old hold harper, Petiron, but he dies in the first chapter). This isn't anything she reflects over, though.
Also, I usually enjoy cross-overs, when we get to see main characters from some other character's POW, but far too much time was spent on describing the Hatching from last book, again. Yes, I got it. Brekke. White dragon.
And. AND! In the very beginning of the book is a page titled "About the book". The correct title should be "Spoiler for the entire book, do not read if you have bought/borrowed/stolen this book because you actually plan on reading it.". Like, wtaf, Transworld Books?!
At least there wasn't any rapey sex scenes in this one.
This is the third, and last, Dragonriders book I read. The reason I made it this far, is the truly fascinating world and society McCaffrey has created. But she just cannot create believable people! They are all shallow and stereotypical, the relationships between them are strange, if not disturbing, and McC has them acting in illogical ways to help her weak plot along.
Take our heroine, Menolly. She has managed to grow up without a single person caring about her. No family member (except maybe her brother, Alemi, but he couldn't be bothered to go out and search for her when she had been missing for days, and they just had a clue she might be alive and a pretty good idea where she might be, because "there was a drizzle". Some broter!), no friends (except maybe the old hold harper, Petiron, but he dies in the first chapter). This isn't anything she reflects over, though.
Also, I usually enjoy cross-overs, when we get to see main characters from some other character's POW, but far too much time was spent on describing the Hatching from last book, again. Yes, I got it. Brekke. White dragon.
And. AND! In the very beginning of the book is a page titled "About the book". The correct title should be "Spoiler for the entire book, do not read if you have bought/borrowed/stolen this book because you actually plan on reading it.". Like, wtaf, Transworld Books?!
At least there wasn't any rapey sex scenes in this one.