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Title: Dragon's Kin by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey ISBN: 0-345-46198-3 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.52 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Watch-whers deserved a book and finally got one!
Comment: Good book. Worth buying in paperback, not hardcover. Not one you should start your Pern reading on, but a Pern fan would enjoy this book.
Dragon's Kin is about a mine camp lead by Natalon. Natalon is trying to prove himself to the Master Miner so that his camp could be turned into an official mine.
Unfortunately, his camp is split with people having different oppinions about the camp's watch-wher.
Disaster strikes when Kindan's family dies in a cavein and gets put in Master Harper Zist's care. Eventually, Natalon expects Kindan to take his father's place as the Watch-wher keeper for the mine forcing Kindan to put his other dreams aside.
Meanwhile, a blind girl named Nuella joins the picture and makes friends with Kindan, Master Zist and a few others.
Unfortunately, this book is only 292 pages long compared with the usual 800, and I read this book in one setting.
I am definately looking forward to seeing how Todd McCaffrey develops as an author.
Rating: 4
Summary: decent, but nothing to get excited about
Comment: 'Dragon's Kin' is Anne McCaffrey's latest offering in her long-running and best-selling 'Dragonriders of Pern' series. It is also the first time she has permitted a co-author into the Pern universe: her son, Todd. This time McCaffrey tells the story of an earlier time in Pern's history. The time is more than halfway through the second Interval, 16 years before the next Threadfall and the next pass of the Red Star. We are several hundred years before the events in 'Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern' and perhaps a hundred years from the events of 'Dragonseye'. So, this is the time period we are looking at.
The story is set in the Natalon mining camp, and this is one of the first times we've had a look at the miners. This is the story of Kindan, a twelve year old boy who seemed older when I read the book. Kindan does not expect anything more out of his life than to follow his father into the mines when he is old enough. All of this changes when there is an accident at the mine and Kindan's father and brothers are all killed. He is left an orphan and he is taken in by the Masterharper, Zist.
What the title of this book refers to is the watch whers (they appear in several of the Pern novels). The watch whers are dragon like, though smaller and nocturnal, and are used typically as a nighttime guard or as the first warning if anything is going wrong. They are kin to dragons (hence the title) from when humans first settled on Pern. Watch whers play a prominent role in this book (though, the watch wher egg does not appear until close to half way through the book).
At times, 'Dragon's Kin' did not feel like a Pern novel. Dragons play such a limited role, and this story is such a sub-set off of what became the primary storyline throughout Pern. This was a quick reading story, but none of the characters were as engaging as previous characters. There is no Menolly, or Lessa, or F'lar, or Jaxom, or even any of the characters from 'Dragonsdawn'. Kindan is too young, and while he may grow into a better character (assuming McCaffrey follows up with these characters), he isn't interesting enough to build a novel around. The minor character, Nuella, she has potential. 'Dragon's Kin' is a decent enough Pern novel, but it is nothing to get excited about.
Rating: 5
Summary: Big Anne McCaffrey Fan
Comment: I have loved all of Anne's books, all the different series. I hope she keeps writing. I am not sure how much of this book is Anne's and how much is Todd's but I enjoyed it and would recommed it to any McCaffrey fan.
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Title: A Gift of Dragons by Anne McCaffrey ISBN: 0345456351 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: On Dragonwings by ANNE MCCAFFREY ISBN: 0345465652 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Exile's Valor: A Novel of Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756402069 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sun In Glory (A Valdemar Anthology) by Mercedes Lackey ISBN: 0756401666 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ship Who Saved the Worlds by Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye ISBN: 0743471717 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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