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A review by cattytrona
Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey
4.0
i like how this series is structured around discovering things. like every few pages, a revelation, a (re)discovery. it’s fun. it’s fun to see a world’s history open up like this, particularly when that history is sometimes today’s events and knowledge (you can’t just go to strange planets guys! they have atmospheres!)
there’s nothing quite as good in terms of character work as lessa’s emergence in the first book, but the politics is more compelling. it is a shame how lessa is kind of defanged and turned into the ultimate weyrwife in this one, but i guess it wasn’t so much her story as in the first book, so i chose to imagine she’s still being rude off-screen whilst we’re following robinton or whoever. nothing against robinton, i think it’s good how the series is like ‘look at all these hot young dragon riders. now here’s a normal semi-alcoholic old man as a major player’
there’s nothing quite as good in terms of character work as lessa’s emergence in the first book, but the politics is more compelling. it is a shame how lessa is kind of defanged and turned into the ultimate weyrwife in this one, but i guess it wasn’t so much her story as in the first book, so i chose to imagine she’s still being rude off-screen whilst we’re following robinton or whoever. nothing against robinton, i think it’s good how the series is like ‘look at all these hot young dragon riders. now here’s a normal semi-alcoholic old man as a major player’