Reviews for The girl who heard dragons

The average rating for The girl who heard dragons based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-25 00:00:00 William Albert This is an enjoyable collection of short stories by the late sci-fi author Anne McCaffrey. The first (title) story is set in her famous world of Pern, but the others are non-related to Pern. There is a good variety of fantasy, science fiction (of the Star Trek/Star Wars variety), fairy-tale or magical stories. The one story that has no sci-fi or supernatural elements is 'Habit is an Old Horse', and it is a real tear-jerker, so be warned! There are a few stories that are connected together - 'Duty Calls', 'A Sleeping Beauty Humpty Dumpty', and 'The Mandalay Cure' are set in an interstellar war between the Alliance and a weasel-like race called the Khalians. These three appear consecutively in the book. 'A Flock of Geese' and 'The Bones Do Lie' are also connected, but are not near each other in the book; they involve time-shifting. If you enjoy Anne McCaffrey's Pern series, you will be interested to see what else she has up her sleeve.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-15 00:00:00 Keith Halfyard This is a collection of 15 stories by Anne McCaffrey. They are of all sorts of types of stories and characters, including one from the point of view of a horse. They range from excellent to so-so. Oddly, the one with the least amount of fantasy was one of the best and took place during the American Civil War. The title story may have been expanded into an entire Pern novel but I'm not positive. I found it pretty good. I wasn't impressed enough to keep the book. You can tell I wasn't that interested by how long it took me to finally finish this. I'll be donating this to the Friends of the Library.