Sometimes it's interesting to read a story you've already read, but through someone else's point of view. Here...I guess it works. Nerilka's an easy character to sympathize with (unappreciated daughter of a domineering hold-owner, what IS it with Anne McCaffrey and bad father-daughter relationships), and I did find myself cheering for her when she sets out on her own AND manages to stick it to her horrible family at the same time. Other than that, this is really just a footnote to the Moreta story, and McCaffrey writes it as such. You get to see a little bit of the background of the plague-story, and you get some answers to the "Yeah, and THEN what happened?!" that people may have been asking at the end of the book "Moreta". But it isn't one that's crying out for a re-read.