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Dragon's Time (Pern (Publication Order) #23)

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For the first time in more than three years, bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey, mother and son, have teamed up again to do what they do best: add a fresh chapter to the most beloved science fiction series of all time, the Dragonriders of Pern. Even though Lorana cured the plague that was killing the dragons of Pern, sacrificing her queen dragon in the p...more

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Sep 10, 2012 Melissa (ladybug) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Pern lovers

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, team-read

I stayed confused reading this book (all the time travel and interactions), but also kept reading it. I enjoyed it but should have probably re-read the previous book to brush up on events. I also found myself being confused by several things. 1st the opening scene was never explained and it just left me confused. 2nd what is up with everyone having relations with everyone else and having two husbands and two wives in a relationship together? I like Pern for its storytelling and basically for the...more

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Apr 14, 2013 L. Silvey rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Oct 19, 2012 Tal rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Even though Lorana cured the plague that was killing the dragons of Pern, sacrificing her queen dragon in the process, the effects of the disease were so devastating that there are no longer enough dragons available to fight the fall of deadly Thread. And as the situation grows more dire, a pregnant Lorana decides that she must take drastic steps in the quest for help.

Meanwhile, back at Telgar Weyr, Weyrwoman Fiona, herself pregnant, and the harper Kindan must somehow keep morale from fading alt...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Christine Ashworth rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I had just come off reading Dragongirl when I picked up this one (not feeling the need to read the Kindan arc 3 books) and I really enjoyed it. Fiona is a wonderful character, and I enjoyed seeing her change, grow, and change the people around her.

Dragon's Time, however, is probably my least favorite in the Pern collective. Todd's style is a lot more straightforward than Anne's, with lots of dialog and little narrative; and even though they worked on this one together, it seems that Todd's style...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Matt Randall rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is best summed up by quoting Doctor Who: "Wibbly-wobbly Timey-Wimey." I can see why Todd McCaffrey needed his mom's help in untangling the time travel mess he threaded (pun not intended) through this third-pass series. While this book was presented as the last, there were still a few random scenes that weren't really explained, making me think he's not done with Fiona et al.

I do like how Todd has progressed his mother's views on women and gays on Pern. Anne's original Dragonriders tri...more This book is best summed up by quoting Doctor Who: "Wibbly-wobbly Timey-Wimey." I can see why Todd McCaffrey needed his mom's help in untangling the time travel mess he threaded (pun not intended) through this third-pass series. While this book was presented as the last, there were still a few random scenes that weren't really explained, making me think he's not done with Fiona et al.

I do like how Todd has progressed his mother's views on women and gays on Pern. Anne's original Dragonriders trilogy didn't always treat either very well, and she had made a number of...interesting...statements regarding homosexuality in the past. It appears her views progressed a bit before her death. The multiple-partner marriage between several of the main characters was well done, although it does seem like most of Telgar was bisexual and having sex everywhere! Despite what Anne said about not writing romances, there was a lot of romance going on. The driving forces of the third-pass novels have definitely been Fiona and Lorana, and these two women, while drawing strength from the male characters, could certainly stand on their own.

The writing wasn't the best. Todd McCaffrey is not his mother, and even though she had a lot of input on this one, it was still rough in places. The writing was better than Todd's solo affairs, so it's plain to see that Anne did help smooth things over. I'm a little uncertain about future Pern novels now that she's passed on.

I do think the time travel story almost got away from the McCaffreys. In the end, it did mostly make sense, but there were a few random bits that didn't quite come together. The continued issue of "we don't have enough dragons!" got a little repetitive, and it seemed like some of the reasons why things didn't work out were a little thin.

Overall, Dragon's Time did wrap up the majority of the storylines in this series, and while I liked the characters, I do hope Todd's next project is to finish up Anne's last ninth-pass novel that she was working on. To me, Lessa and F'Lar will always be the main characters of Pern, and they're the characters I want to read about.(less)

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Jun 21, 2012 Marleen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Thousands of years after humans colonised Pern and genetically modified dragons to help them fight the dreaded Thread the world finds itself on the brink of disaster.
The dragon’s sickness has left Pern with perilously low numbers of Dragons to fight the deadly Thread with. Although Lorena found a cure to the sickness, the cure came too late to save the animals in sufficient numbers. And every Threadfall, the numbers of available dragons dwindle further. The people of Pern...more Received from Book Geeks

Thousands of years after humans colonised Pern and genetically modified dragons to help them fight the dreaded Thread the world finds itself on the brink of disaster.
The dragon’s sickness has left Pern with perilously low numbers of Dragons to fight the deadly Thread with. Although Lorena found a cure to the sickness, the cure came too late to save the animals in sufficient numbers. And every Threadfall, the numbers of available dragons dwindle further. The people of Pern will have to find a way to quickly increase the number of dragons if they want to have a chance to survive.
In a desperate bid to find a solution, Lorena decides to fly forward in time knowing that this action will cost her the baby she is carrying.
While Lorena is travelling into between and through time, looking for a place to safely raise more dragons, back on Pern Fiona, Kindan and T’mar are trying to fight the Thread without dwindling the numbers of dragons and riders too fast and struggling to keep despair at bay.
Most people are convinced that Lorena must be lost to them and put Fiona’s reports of contact with the traveller down to pregnancy induced hallucinations.
When Lorena returns though, she has found a possible location and solution and soon the group find themselves on a newly discovered continent in a different time raising the dragons they will need to have a chance at survival. An enterprise that will turn out not to be without difficulties of its own and filled with danger and potential loss of loved ones.

Reading and reviewing a book that is the fourth title in a series which itself is part of an even larger series when you haven’t read a single one of the earlier titles is probably not a great idea.
Of course every good book is able to stand on its own merits; a reader shouldn’t need to have read the previous titles in order to enjoy the story they are reading. And I didn’t. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, fell for its characters, both human and dragon, and found myself completely rapped up in the struggle to save Pern from the deadly Thread despite being new to this world. Having said that, I have absolutely no doubt that I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read the previous books in the series, had known more about the background of the characters and the situation they find themselves in. I was constantly aware of the fact that I was probably missing links, references to prior events and other connections. But, that didn’t stop me from picking up the book on a wet Saturday morning and finishing it the same evening, compulsively turning the pages in order to find out what exactly was going on and how it all would end.
This is a well written book and an easy read. It is easy to lose yourself in the surroundings, the characters and the interactions between them, to marvel at the dragons and their links with their humans and as a result it is only natural that you start to care about the fate of all these characters as well.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever find the courage or the time to go back and read all the Pern books I have missed. I will however read the next book in the New Adventures of Pern series because I really want to find out what is going to happen next.
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May 31, 2012 Melissainau rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: die-hard Pern fans

Shelves: sff

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I wanted to like this book. I mean, I *REALLY* wanted to like this book.

I cannot say how many times I have read the two original series of Dragon books - up to and including The White Dragon. I own all the Pern books - at least all the ones that are generally available - and have read them all. With the exception of the one about the stupid nasty criminals, I have enjoyed all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.

But Dragon's Time? What a disaster! It was just all over the place.

Here is the pre...more

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Sep 17, 2011 Kathy Davie rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

The Chronology of the Series
It's 508 AL (after landing) and takes place after Dragonsblood in the Dragonriders of Pern fantasy series.

The Story
Why bother? Just read the previous books and you'll have a good idea what's happening.

We have to go through another take of Lorana meeting Tenniz before she buries him.

My Take
This isn't even a real story! Instead, McCaffrey has created a mish-mash of flitting back-and-forth from time to time. Do not even try to make sense of what is going on as McCaffrey...more

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Sep 16, 2011 Susan Mann rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This isn't my normal read, but I thought I would give it a go. I have not read any of Anne or her son Todd's previous books, but that did not matter this stood on it's own. However I think it makes a good addition to the series from what I have looked into. This book is actually book 23 in the series, so I've got quite a bit of catching up to do.

I did love the dragons, characters I have never read about in the past and this won't be my last. The drama that unfolds in the world of Pern. Lorana is...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Theresa rated it 5 of 5 stars

as always an anne mccaffrey comes into the house and what ever book i am reading goes to the side, as i pour through the text like it is a drug. I found that the books stands as always in my best esteem. The trill of the story, the drama of the characters the anticipation of the text. and the conclusion brings tears and hope, as all the books about pern tend to do. I love the dragons, the characters, and drama of Pern. This book falls with in the scope of expectation for these brilliant authors,...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dragon, read-in-2011, science-fiction, owned-paper, fantasy

Best one in a while, certainly the best one that Todd has written. I'm still not entirely on board with his focus on little kids in positions of responsibility or Fiona's big heart going a bit far in the free love territory (she brings every stray into her family in some way, whether as a lover or a sister). But the heart of the story was there, great characters fighting to survive and triumph against such harsh odds with love, creativity and humor.

One thing that I think Todd has done very well...more

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Feb 19, 2012 Kiri rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-sf

Having read a few negative reviews before reading this book I approached it with very low expectations, and think that I was therefore not as disappointed/annoyed by this book as I might otherwise have been

The first thing to note is that it is nowhere near the level of Anne McCaffrey's work. I think that this is partly because Todd spends very little time on the dragons themselves, an integral part of Pern! Except for the occasional Thread battle (not as prominent in this book as in many of the...more Having read a few negative reviews before reading this book I approached it with very low expectations, and think that I was therefore not as disappointed/annoyed by this book as I might otherwise have been

The first thing to note is that it is nowhere near the level of Anne McCaffrey's work. I think that this is partly because Todd spends very little time on the dragons themselves, an integral part of Pern! Except for the occasional Thread battle (not as prominent in this book as in many of the others) the dragons could essentially be large pets used for transportation, there is none of the intimate connection between dragon and rider that is so apparent in his mother's books. They seem very happy, especially Fiona, for other people to borrow the dragon, and never seem worried about checking their visualisation of the destination. Lorana is constantly popping in and out of places yet from what I can remember nevery really had any training. He seems to miss out on the depth of the connection between rider and dragon, I think this is best illustrated with many characters pushing for Lorana to reimpress. When (in the future of Pern) Brekke is to be given the chance to reimpress those closest to her are the most against it, and no character before has shown any inclination to reimpress, the strength of their connection to their dragon being too strong. Lorana however doesn't raise any strong objections to this plan.

I also have an issue with Lorana's jump forward in time. It has already been discussed in much detail and repetitiveness that the reason Fiona et al are feeling all muzzy headed is that they must be timing it, logically that means they must be in two places at once in the present, not the future or else they would not feel the effects until they reached the time in the future in which they were in multiple places at once (I hope that makes sense to those reading it!). And if they are timing it in the present they should be able to resupply the weyrs without getting help from future dragons. Anne also spent some time pointing out (in the White Dragon I believe) that jumping into the future had many risks other than the long time between. Therefore there is no reason for Lorana to jump forward in time rather than initially looking for a new area in the present time except as a plot device to cause her to lose her baby. I may be miss reading this but I got the impression from the conversation between Fiona and Tullea in the future that neither Fiona or Lorana will survive to the end of the pass.

I did find the last scene with F'jian quite emotional, this may have been partly due to the fact I was feeling a little under the weather when reading it but it did cause a bit of welling up.

I am getting quite fed up with timing it as the solution to everything, I think it should be used with caution not only by dragons but by authors as well! Unfortunately I feel we have yet more timing to come in the next book to explain the mysterious notes to/from Fiona.

Other than those small quibbles I found the book reasonably enjoyable if not that enthralling/ If you don't go into this book with high expectations it provides a reasonably pleasant afternoon's reading, not too taxing and gives you a Pern fix.

One last point, to those who have said it is impossible for Fiona to have twins with seperate fathers, I would like to point out that it is completely possible, in fact given the relationship between them all it is not only possible but also plausible.(less)

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Aug 11, 2011 Marya Kowal rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No one

I adore Pern, and have loved Anne McCaffrey's dragons for over thirty years, but I could have asked my teen to write a Pern book and gotten a more mature storyline than Dragon's Time. Todd woos Pern fans with timed journeys like a creep with rohypnol preys on girls out for a great time at their favorite party spot. Then when he has them reeling and confused with the massive overdose of plot device, he beats them over the head with foreshadowing until they're all but comatose. He finishes taking...more I adore Pern, and have loved Anne McCaffrey's dragons for over thirty years, but I could have asked my teen to write a Pern book and gotten a more mature storyline than Dragon's Time. Todd woos Pern fans with timed journeys like a creep with rohypnol preys on girls out for a great time at their favorite party spot. Then when he has them reeling and confused with the massive overdose of plot device, he beats them over the head with foreshadowing until they're all but comatose. He finishes taking advantage with clumsy but brutal use of deus ex machina, leaving the true fan feeling abused, angry and robbed.

Leaving the mean metaphor aside, this was just disappointing all over. The man doesn't even seem to like his own characters...he is oddly judgmental of their sexual mores (You WROTE them, Todd, stop explaining how uniquely naughty their stale 70's free love seems to you!) and is so titillated by what he's written that he persists in having every other character make note of their love lives, even the children. Ick.

Securing the future is a major theme of all the early Pern novels, but in this one it is married with an uncomfortably ignorant view of pregnancy. One character is told multiple times that she must be having twins because she's complaining of discomfort in her first trimester. By the healer. Really?! Every pregnant character is warned that stress causes miscarriage, as do minor falls and going between (but only when it's convenient to the plot!). And paternity of the twins is not only unusual, but obsessed upon. See paragraph two of this review.

Todd did give an interesting interpretation of how dragons and their riders survive between, and an exciting hatching scene. But where he should dwell and show the scenes in detail, he glosses over and moves to the next instance of timing it. Where the characters have an opportunity to gain wisdom and experience through trial and struggle, they just time it and fix their problems magically without learning or growing.

I'm reserving his next book at the library and saving my hard-earned money for a book I'll read and re-read for years...instead of one I'll regret buying, like I do this one.(less)

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Jul 12, 2011 Jenevieve rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another collaboration of mother and son and a continuation of Dragongirl. I liked this one more than I did Dragongirl simply because relationships had finally sorted themselves out and remained constant rather than trying to keep straight who was involved with whom. Not to be outdone tho, this one was very confusing in trying to keep time straight as there are a lot of people timing it all over the place in order for there to be enough dragons to fight Thread as numbers are diminishing rapidly....more

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Dec 27, 2012 Emma rated it 3 of 5 stars

I found many aspects of the story line hard to follow, largely because characters (mostly Lorana) were traveling willy-nilly through time and space. Sometimes I couldn't keep track if they were going forward or backward, and how far back or forward.

Considering that throughout the Pern storyline (right from the beginning), timing it was always considered such a dangerous thing to do, it's surprising that everyone in this book seems to just blithely do it.

Other issue: I found that much of the con...more

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Dec 06, 2011 Melissa rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Anne McCaffrey never disappointed, and her son Todd is learning the rhthym of Pern. This book follows Lora a as she moves through time to try to save Pern n and its drogon's from the effects of the plague. Now that the plague has been eradicated and all the beings of Pern are safe from the illness, a way must be found to bring the number of dragons back up to full fighting strength for they down to less than a full weyer between all the weyers of the planet.
So Lorana goes forward in time to brin...more

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Aug 18, 2011 A.N. Vidrine rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: NO ONE

I was not going to read this sequel to the horrible "Dragongirl." I barely made it with sanity intact with that one, so I wasn't willing to risk this one. However, with Anne McCaffrey's name back in the author spot, I had to give it a go.

I was sorely, sorely disappointed. I feel like I have been swindled. Anne's influence was non-existent, except perhaps in the very last chapter. Then, in the afterward, it was made clear that it was mainly Todd's fault, so I will squarely place the blame on his...more I was not going to read this sequel to the horrible "Dragongirl." I barely made it with sanity intact with that one, so I wasn't willing to risk this one. However, with Anne McCaffrey's name back in the author spot, I had to give it a go.

I was sorely, sorely disappointed. I feel like I have been swindled. Anne's influence was non-existent, except perhaps in the very last chapter. Then, in the afterward, it was made clear that it was mainly Todd's fault, so I will squarely place the blame on his shoulders for this atrocious waste of paper.

I've written better Pern fan-fiction than this when I was twelve. I know Ms. McCaffrey's viewpoint on fan-fiction, so I have never posted my stories anywhere other than my own computer. I wish she would extend that disdain of fan-fiction to her own son's. The book reads astonishingly like the horrific Pern fan-fiction out there, and would only be more complete if somehow F'lar traveled back in time to have yaoi relationships with T'mar or F'jian. Or both. Cue the giggling fan-girls.

Where to begin? The characters are stilted, there is NO PLOT, the time travel gets boring and hard to follow, no one learns anything, pregnant women are shown to be completely incapable of anything other than resting much less such strenuous things like thinking, dragons are swapped between riders like handkerchiefs, and there are only two conversational themes throughout the entire book (pregnancy and feeling tired). Oh, and apparently humans can survive short periods in space by holding their breath. Sure. All of the "action" happens in the very last chapter. The entire book (other than the last chapter) can be summed up by these words: "Fiona was very tired. All of the weyrlings were very tired. They talked about it a lot. Some people got pregnant, and then had their babies." THAT IS ALL THAT HAPPENED IN THIS BOOK, except for that last chapter.

I think Anne may have only gotten her hands on that last chapter, and helped Todd wrap up in a few pages an entire book's worth of plot.

And let's not even touch on what I complained about from the last book: fourteen year olds having sex. Yuck. We'll stop there on that subject, thanks.

The only part of this book worth reading is the introduction, where Anne McCaffrey reveals that she is working on her own Pern book, the continuation of F'lar and Lessa's stories. She needs to write this book, as an apology and a brain-scrubbing for this one.

I will NOT be reading the next one, no matter if Anne McCaffrey's name is on it. It's not worth the pain of the horrible dialogue and the boring non-plot.

I'm even shocked that others have given it higher ratings. I've seen comments about how boring it was, but was still given three stars. Come on people, if a book sucks, the authors need to know it.(less)

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Aug 02, 2012 Karen rated it 1 of 5 stars

Ugh. I feel like this hot mess was nothing that even came close to the Pern I know and love. Redundant, and annoying - I felt it was written down. Characters had little to no personality and I just didn't feel drawn in to their story - at least not enough to care who they "love" when all that free love was being tossed about like cookies - ooh you're my sister now, ooh I love him and him and him and her and her and her - and yet NEVER did any of the characters actually address all this free love...more

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Dec 13, 2012 Dita72 rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Oct 20, 2011 Lynda Tatad rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed the latest addition in the Dragonriders of Pern series. It kept me up late a few nights in a row, as I couldn't put the book down!

This story picks up shortly after DragonHeart, with Fiona, Lorana, Kindan and T'Mar and many others dealing with the decimated loss of so many dragons to the plague. Lorana was able to help find a cure, but still had lost her dragon. She's one of the few people who can hear all dragons, so she was helped through her grief this way. The big problem, i...more

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Nov 07, 2012 Deanka rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have always been a lover of Anne's Pern novels. Since i read the first one, i have gone out of my way to read them all, buying up all the paperbacks i could find after reading the first one. that world, the dragon-riders, the harpers, have all fascinated me. however, when her son started writing with her, the books became less interesting. all they do in them is 'time it,' now. dragons dying of an unknown disease, time it. people getting sick for no reason and we can't find a cure? time it. ne...more

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Apr 30, 2012 April rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

I love the basis of the Pern stories - humans working in concert with dragons to keep their world viable. However, the last few have had so much to do with time travel that they become confusing. Not to mention several times when a character will have an 'ah ha' moment but won't share the results with the reader - making this reader at least annoyed. I understand the need for some mysteries to be left until the end but these weren't at that level and dimmed my enjoyment of the story.

Maybe I'm ju...more

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Nov 20, 2011 Jeff Crosby rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, science-fiction, 2011

Red Star Rising has been my least favorite Pern novel for many years, but a couple of these third pass stories have tried my patience. This is another. The novel is very slow starting. As I noted with Dragongirl, I am growing tired of the third pass stories of death. This could be impacting my interest. I wrote: "I'd better see the end of the story arc with the next book or Todd will lose me as a reader." Fortunately, this story begins to turn upward after the slow start. The characters are enga...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Brad McKenna rated it 3 of 5 stars

I haven't read a Pern novel since high school. So when I was looking for a book to rent from the library's catalog of e-books, I found this one. Honestly, I probably would have waited from something else to be available, but I was dying to read my first library eBook on my Nook!

As for the book itself, it was pretty good. I mean a book full of dragons has a lot going for it. Throw in some time travel and you've got the making of a very unique sci-fi idea. The characters are a little too similar...more

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May 21, 2012 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love Pern and its dragons, and I'll probably read anything that is published about Pern. I realize that there's many inconsistencies within what's written and the world Anne created, but I can't remember them all, nor do I try. If it was something like a woman Impressing a bronze, though, I'd probably toss the book in disgust.

Why bother with opening a chapter with a chronological date if you're going to jump through time 3-4 times in a single chapter? The "timing it" and the mystery surroundin...more

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Jan 30, 2012 Macjest rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

So sad reading this and knowing that Anne is gone.
I'll start out by saying that I had a hard time remembering everybody and keeping them all straight in my head. There are just so many characters in this early time frame. However, the book was very compelling. I finished it in less than a day.

As far as all the griping about the characters being tired all the time and 14 year olds having too much responsibility, think back to our own earlier time period. 14 year olds got married and had kids be...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Lola rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is set early in Pern's history, just after the plague and at a time when there are so few dragons who are ready and able to tackle the upcoming Threadfall threat. Lorana tries to find a way out of this dilemma, which means somehow going through time travel.

I'm not sure that this time travel was handled cleanly - when I started the book it was really confusing, but as I kept reading, it became somewhat more clear. But still, this is a rather ambiguous book which requires some mental gy...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Margo rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Maybe I'm just cranky this week, but this book annoyed me! I would have relished a good Pern tale. But I was confused half the time and bored some of the time. I felt the flow was very uneven. The book seemed to require too much knowledge of another book, one I wasn't even sure I had read. The incessant 'timing' that the plot required just added to the confusion. Best parts, though, were the use/appearance of the Dawn Sisters, and the part about trying to set up and run a new 'civilization' in a...more

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Aug 22, 2011 Linda Ulleseit rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fantasy

I love the Pern books and have for thirty years. Dragongirl was the first one that disappointed me, and Dragon's Time is just as bad. When trying to analyze why I didn't like them, I noticed that these two books are almost completely dialogue. There is very little narrative to show the characters' actions and feelings. Instead of being part of the scene, the reader is there as the characters talk about what happened. Also, Fiona is not typical of McCaffrey characters. She's selfish and weak, and...more

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Oct 09, 2011 Lbaker rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dragon, fantasy

I enjoyed the second half of this book much more than the first. The "time" part of the book made it confusing to read, but the characters were typical of Anne and Todd McCaffrey - well rounded, compelling and mostly people I'd either like to be more like or would like to know.

By the second half of the book I was so immersed in the characters that the random time lines did not bother me as much as they did the first half.

I really am looking forward to Anne McCaffrey (with or without her son Todd...more

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Dragon's Time (Pern (Publication Order) #23)

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