Reviews for The Renegades of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern Series #10)

The average rating for The Renegades of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern Series #10) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-10 00:00:00 Patrick Warthen This was an fantastic book. There is so much happening and so many different stories within that you never grow bored. There are quite a few characters, but those from other books that you continue to follow. There are great characters and one terrible villain. There is continent hopping and history being uncovered. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's funny, reading through these books has been a lot of fun. Reading in chronological order has been fun. It has been so long since the first couple of times that I read through this series, that I am hitting on characters that I just don't remember. I was a teenager when I first read these though, so who knows what I was thinking through those first times. I have been thoroughly entertained this time around and it has been so enjoyable getting to know these characters again. Characters that I remember loving and thinking they were the most important, well, that all changed. They are still important and I still think they are fantastic, but there are also other characters that are just as lovable and important. What a great series. I'm really happy I have taken on reading through them again.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-30 00:00:00 Pete Voltz This is a comfortable book which ties together many different plots and people from all over Pern and ultimately links them to the Southern continent. It is also the book that sets up the latter stories in the series, since in the later part the Pernese discover the sites of 'the ancients' on the Southern continent and start excavating them, leading to latter books. This book contains probably the most number of separate plots, discrete plot lines and the largest suite of characters of any that I have previously read by McCaffrey. To be honest, at first I was a bit exasperated because the prologue introduces us rather too rapidly through rather too many people who you will not encounter until much later, by which time I had forgotten them. The main thrust of the plot in the early novel is the 'Renegades' and the brigands? outlaws? led by Lady Holdless Thella who took advantage of the homeless people created by thread and for a few turns made it quite a dangerous place for those without dragons. This is a different side of Pern, the one where people who are not Hold or Weyr or crafthall are given a look in, and I did enjoy that aspect of it as well as the wider social context that McCaffrey wove into her world. The various stories come together, though and once again we zoom in on Hold, Weyr and craft having left the 'renegades, holdless ect far behind. While I did enjoy this I agree the many people who have criticised it; the renegades feel like a plot that started but was dropped in the middle of the book. Araminta's story is told elsewhere and I don't quite see why why she reappears at Southern. Peimur and Jaxon and Robinton all suddenly take the place of the previous story we were reading and all of a sudden the entire focus of the book changes with a tiny little token nod to finalising the original plot, right at the end. The story seems to be set in exactly the same time as several other books, all of which follow characters that are in this one as well. It is all a bit mystifying, and nothing like McCaffreys original, tightly written, single plot novels. I did still quite enjoy it.