Dragongirl

Dragonriders of Pern, Book 21

By: Todd McCaffrey

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen Talenth, has returned from the past, where she and a group of dragons and riders fled so that the wounded could heal from their previous battles. Gone only three days, yet aged more than three years, Fiona is no longer a child but a woman prepared to fight against the Thread that threatens to destroy her world.

Fiona’s life takes a pivotal turn when a shocking tragedy thrusts her into a position of authority. Now she finds herself leading weyrfolk who have a hard time trusting a senior Weyrwoman who is both young and an outsider.

But even greater challenges lie ahead: Thread is falling and there are too few dragons to stem the tide. Many have died from the recent plague, and even with the influx of newly mature dragons from the past, the depleted fighting force is no match for the intensifying Threadfall. Fiona knows that something must be done, and what she proposes is daring and next to impossible. But if her plan succeeds, it just might save them all.

Pay another visit to Pern.

©2010 Todd J. McCaffrey (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Todd McCaffrey continues carving his own niche in the Pern canon while remaining faithful to the world-building and characterizations that have made his mother Anne's series a perennial favorite" ( Booklist).

beautiful

loved it. just as enthralling as the rest of the series. absolutely wonderful adventure, just what we have come to expect from this pair of writers.

Disappointing

I have been a fan of the McCaffrey’s for many years. I love the world in the entire universe of Pern. This is the first time I’ve ever been disappointed by one of their books. The storyline was poorly crafted and after a while it was tough to tell which character was which. There was way too much sex and sleeping around and some disturbing things of adults being attracted to children and people with multiple sexualAberrations. If I wanted to read sexually explicit literature that’s what I wouldChoose. But I didn’t choose that, I chose this fantasy series instead. The author needs to go back and reread some of his mothers books. He needs to capture the spirit and the richness of what she wrote using his own style rather than falling back on sexually explicit literature and disturbing scenes to attract readers.

Love listening to the series!

Love it! Always enjoy listening to all Dragon's of Pern Audio books while drive to work and home!

Dragongirl byToddMccaffrey

This .is not an Anne Mccaffrey equal. The story is too disjointed. It is too hard to follow the characters and events. I had to listen to it four times and still did not understand many passages. I have read all of her books and this was disappointing!!

Dragongirl

Another book of Pern that I hadn't read prior and it is in the same time frame as the previous ones. I believe there is also more during this time frame. There is a lot going on with the dragons dying off first from a sickness and then from fighting thread. There is so much death and so few dragons that they are unsure they will survive. At the end, Lorana goes between to the future, sacrificing her unborn child to save the people of Pern. For if there are no dragons to fight thread, then they will not survive.

I thought it was a good book with likable characters. The previous book was a little drawn out, but this one picked up and they did well to keep it interesting. I found the relationships different and a little awkward. And it is the same story being drawn out in quite a few books which I find really odd for the Pern books. It wasn't bad though.

NOT on par with the rest

The reader was horrible! Her whine shakey voice was so distracting that I'm not sure if the story was bad or it was just marred by her grating voice. I generally like this series. This one is honestly hard to get through.

Dragon girl too much of a romance novel

Too much of a romance novel, kind of killed the story for me, just a little perverted with the whole love triangle underage bit much for my taste

A disgrace to Pern, slow, wandering, focuses more on Todd's fantasy of teen girls than actually moving the story along

I never leave reviews but dear god, how did this make it past an editor? It is boring, dragging on and on jumping from death to underaged sex with men in their 30s and older to death and back and forth. All these preteen and teen girls are set up as so mature without actually making them engaging as if it's some excuse to make them casually promiscuous.
What seems like the main conflict (dragon sickness) is solved with an ex machina early in the book and the next 10 flipping hours are the worst dragon riders in the history of Pern dying left and right and the whiny bratty supposedly lovable (not) main character obsessing over her love of two different men while also obsessing over another superfluous female character who serves no purpose except to being said ex machina and be something else for MC to obsess over.
Exhausting trying to finish it. I haven't yet. I needed a break to vent because it's been 80 years since I started this book and it's still. Not. Over. Uuugggghhh just kill then all off and stop ruining your mothers beloved creation.
Also, pick a pronunciation. Is it Kindon or Kindan? The names are all to similar to keep flip flopping between pronunciations and keep track.
Reader is ok although her male voices all tend to run together and sound a bit like a teen girl mocking what she thinks men sound like.

A Travesty

I never thought there'd be a Pern book I didn't like - but Todd McCaffrey managed it with this. If I wanted a novel about a couple that became a threesome that became a foursome etc. bonking around the Weyrs I'd have bought the Mills & Boon edition! What I wanted was the damn good story that Anne McCaffrey always wrote - she must be turning in her grave with this tripe being published as "hers

peat & repeat

I grew up loving pern.. I even sat through a needless "I love you but I'm not in love with you" speech at the very start of the book..

the fact is there is nothing new or exciting about this book, and that makes me sad. I can't even finish it for fear of drifting off while I drive at night.

The performance has wonderful variance. yet for the first time I see why a friend of mine said Pern feels black and white while other books are technicolor.