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Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
4.0
I had searched high and low for a copy of DragonSong but none were available, so since the series jumps back and forth through time so much anyway, I just picked up this, DragonSinger, the second in the mini trilogy. It started abruptly right after the first one ended, I believe, so I did have to play catch up a little. I didn't remember many details about Menolly hurting her hands, but there weren't any large enough gaps in knowledge to hinder my reading.
I was happy to be back in this world and learning more about characters I'm already familiar with. DragonSinger made for quick reading, with an interesting storyline throughout. I enjoyed reading about Menolly's teachers and the masters at Harper Hall, though it did get a little dry hearing just how talented and modest she is over and over. It seemed like everyone was divided into either respectable people who liked her, or jealous villains competing in uppity nonsense. Menolly seemed too perfect to feel fully-fleshed or interesting by herself, but learning more about the fire lizards kept things fresh. The creatures were really enchanting even with the lack of any real dragons in the plotline.
There's a lot of swift justice in the book and it seems to end abruptly, but relatively satisfying. The thing about this series and its jumps through time is that it often reflects life where there isn't always a climax, resolution, and falling action. Life always continues and there are always new developments and new problems to be sorted out and with so many books and individual series written about this world and these characters, I'm sure Anne McCaffrey just didn't know when to stop sometimes. Worth a read and I'm eager to try to track down the other two books in the mini series.
I was happy to be back in this world and learning more about characters I'm already familiar with. DragonSinger made for quick reading, with an interesting storyline throughout. I enjoyed reading about Menolly's teachers and the masters at Harper Hall, though it did get a little dry hearing just how talented and modest she is over and over. It seemed like everyone was divided into either respectable people who liked her, or jealous villains competing in uppity nonsense. Menolly seemed too perfect to feel fully-fleshed or interesting by herself, but learning more about the fire lizards kept things fresh. The creatures were really enchanting even with the lack of any real dragons in the plotline.
There's a lot of swift justice in the book and it seems to end abruptly, but relatively satisfying. The thing about this series and its jumps through time is that it often reflects life where there isn't always a climax, resolution, and falling action. Life always continues and there are always new developments and new problems to be sorted out and with so many books and individual series written about this world and these characters, I'm sure Anne McCaffrey just didn't know when to stop sometimes. Worth a read and I'm eager to try to track down the other two books in the mini series.