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This wasn't exactly the first book of hers I read {and I've read them all in the past thirty years or so} but it is in my opinion one of her best and the perfect launching point for the rest of her Pern Novels. Re-read on 09/24/09
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There's some good and some bad in this one. The bad probably has more to do with when the novel was published than anything else. Still a quick story with a good plot. I'd say it was beginning fantasy, but it has some adult themes.
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Oct 08, 2007
Omni
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