A review by alyanna77
Dragon's Time: Dragonriders of Pern by Todd McCaffrey, Anne McCaffrey

3.0

I'm not sure what to say about this book. I think the underlying story was good, but the author (authors? I really can't picture this as being Anne's work) got so caught up in time travel & trying to keep secrets from the reader that it makes the whole thing just feel awkward. It doesn't help that the rules of time travel seem very strict - some of the time. When it's convenient to the plot, the characters are able to 'cheat' the rules, which might be okay except that the times when you can cheat are completely inconsistent. Also, I don't love Todd's new standard of stretching the same story over half a dozen books or more. While Anne's old Pern books were more self-contained, Todd seems to feel that he needs at least two big mysteries left at the end of each book - maybe because they're not good enough to bring you back otherwise? Overall I'm disappointed in the new books of the series, which is sad given how much I love the originals.