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    Dragongirl
    Audiobook16 hours

    Dragongirl

    Written by Todd McCaffrey

    Narrated by Emily Durante

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen Talenth, has returned from the past, where she and a group of dragons and riders fled so that the wounded could heal from their previous battles. Gone only three days, yet aged more than three years, Fiona is no longer a child but a woman prepared to fight against the Thread that threatens to destroy her world.

    Fiona's life takes a pivotal turn when a shocking tragedy thrusts her into a position of authority. Now she finds herself leading weyrfolk who have a hard time trusting a senior Weyrwoman who is both young and an outsider.

    But even greater challenges lie ahead: Thread is falling and there are too few dragons to stem the tide. Many have died from the recent plague, and even with the influx of newly mature dragons from the past, the depleted fighting force is no match for the intensifying Threadfall. Fiona knows that something must be done, and what she proposes is daring and next to impossible. But if her plan succeeds, it just might save them all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 27, 2010
    ISBN9781423373391
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    Dragongirl
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    Todd McCaffrey

    Todd McCaffrey is the bestselling author of the Pern novels Dragonsblood and Dragonheart, and the co-author, with his mother, Anne McCaffrey, of Dragon’s Kin, Dragon’s Fire, and Dragon Harper. A computer engineer, he currently lives in Los Angeles. Having grown up in Ireland with the epic of the Dragonriders of Pern,® he is burst-ing with ideas for new stories of that world, its people, and its dragons.

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    • 4/5
      DRAGONGIRL takes place right after DRAGONHEART. Fiona and her group of dragonriders have come back from the past to just three days later. The problems she left are still problems. There is an illness that is killing dragons and thread is starting to fall and there are not enough dragons or dragonriders to battle it. When a tragedy takes all the dragons and riders from Telgar in a horrible event, Fiona is sent with her gold queen Talenth to be the new weyrwoman there. She brings along T'mar and his wing. She also brings her young friends. Fiona has a remarkable talent for managing her weyr and a remarkable talent for inspiring loyalty. When Kindan and Lorana find a cure for the dragons, part of the problems are solved but they are still facing a major shortage of dragons old enough to fight thread. Talenth clutches and provides 22 eggs as does the other queen at Telgar. These clutches are light - many too small - and they don't know if it is because of the cure or just coincidence. Kindan, T'mar, Lorana, and Fiona forge a partnership for their emotional support with Fiona at the center. She has such a big heart that she wants to love everyone. She also takes her responsibility to keep up morale at the weyr very seriously and tries to hide her fears for the future of Pern. This was an exciting story with lots of growth for Fiona but it is clearly part of a much larger story arc. Both a cliffhanger ending and unresolved plot threads will have to wait for the next book.
    • 4/5
      WAY to much timing it confusion. Not even a good story line. 3 stars. Won't let me mark 3. Have listened to all the books and this one was not very good.
    • 1/5
      It was a short story that dragged on for hours and hours and then ended weirdly. Not at all up to mom's standard. There were two points to be made and they were made over and over again over 24 chapters and when it finally ended it was your typical melodramatic heroine doing her thing but not resolving the other issue. Good thing I only had it on for background noise.
    • 1/5
      That book was shit.

      The story focuses on Fiona, a Queen rider, who loves Kindan. This is not surprising as anyone reading any of Todd McCaffrey's books will realise that he also loves Kindan. Kindan is a superboy who gets to do everything. In this book he even becomes weyrlingmaster and proxy weyrleader despite not being a dragonrider, which is made even more surprising given that he has been rejected on the hatching grounds three times.

      Fiona is supposed to be a great weyrwoman, but really she spends the entire book begging everyone to sleep in her bed. Friends, children, other weyrleaders, other couples she is rather indiscriminent. Her first queen mating flight ends up in a foursome with an ex-queen rider, Kindan and a comatose dragonrider.... Anytime anyone declares their love for her she reminds them that she loves lots of people. She arranges for her lovers to have other lovers and spends the book trying to get everyone pregnant.

      Todd McCaffrey seems completely unable to write a convincing love scene. He either has children falling in love or adults fucking everything that moves. His mother, Anne McCaffrey that creator of the Pern series, was brilliant at drawing the reader into the relationships in her book. Why does he write about children and sex so much?

      Todd seems to think writing Pern novels is as easy as copying ideas from his mother. She had a plague, well he has two of them. She had dragons travel through time, well he will have his dragons travel through time so much that his readers will be tied up in paradoxes. She had a question song, well he will have two of them. She had mating flights, well he will have foursomes. She had telepathic dragons, well he will have telepathic humans. He simple does not know when to stop.

      Todd McCaffrey has a long way to go as a writer and his credibility is lessened as we watch him mutilate the world that his mother created, presumably because he makes a lot more money riding his mother's coattails then he would if he began writing his own stories. He needs to learn subtlety, how to write adult storylines and how to write a strong adult romance, until then he really should stop fucking with Pern.

    • 2/5
      so dang tired of the plague and timing it to remedy it or in this case the scarcity of dragons a problem which was not solved by the end of the book which i find highly annoying. maybe if his mother had not already did these cirsis in previous books i would think todd's version was good butr since i did read these same ole storylines many times in his mother's books and they were so much better i just was not feeling todd's. his mom could write about one plauge for 3 or 4 books or novellas and she would come at it from different angles so it was fresh and new and not boring. i don't know his story was lacking. unlike dick francis's on felix i don't think todd will fare well in pern. sigh.
    • 4/5
      This book picks up where "Dragonheart" leaves off - the same day, in fact. One needs to read the other two Todd McCaffrey dragon books before this one, or it won't make a lot of sense. Pros: It's a good story, well integrated into the Pern universe. The story is very tight chronologically, starting in the second month of year 508, and ending in the 7th month of the same year. We follow Fiona closely, with Kindan and Lorana close secondary leads. I like the characters. This is clearly a middle book, continuing the story of the previous book, solves a conundrum set up early on, and then It ends on a cliff-hanger. It does not feel as padded as its immediate predecessor, and it seems like more happens.Cons: This is about 450 pp, and could have been edited down to closer to 300 pp without sacrificing anything essential. I would have preferred fewer descriptions of fighting Threadfalls, and of sleeping arrangements. Fewer named characters would have been easier to follow: there are a LOT of names. The book kept my interest, even if sometimes I was a bit impatient.
    • 2/5
      Ick. I should have read my review of the previous book in this series before this one. I was lost for part of it, feeling queasy for part of it, and I didn't enjoy the rest. Alas, I've forgotten what exactly so put me off, and I don't fancy revisiting it.
    • 4/5
      Pern... need I say more? Some people seem to feel that Todd is not up to his mother's standards, but for me, anything Pern is great. Yes the earlier books were best, but maybe it was because it was all so new. Here we have timing and dragon disease decimating their fighting wing numbers... Pern... and is it true, there is going to be a movie???
    • 1/5
      Having read all the Pern books and loving this series, I really, really wanted to like this latest installment by Anne's son. The earlier books he has written have been interesting, if not quite as well written as the books written by Anne herself.I struggled to read this one, and actually ended up just skimming the final chapters searching for a plot point (any plot point-please!)to grab onto. This one is a just a big mess--no real forward motion that couldn't have been condensed (as another reviewer noted) into the first chapters of a better book. Characters by the dozens hopping in and out of the narrative to no apparent purpose, endless reiterations of one or two conflicts and themes...just a mess.A list of characters and their weyr/hold/hall affiliations (and who they are sleeping with?) at the beginning would be a big help, also. There are glimpses of a good idea in here, but they are hard to find.
    • 2/5
      I have loved Pern since I was a kid, and Todd McCaffrey had my roaring approval with Dragonsblood and the watchwher books. But these last two novels have been sorely lacking. There's not much plot going on, outside of the pseudo-pleural-marriage thing going on with Fiona, Kindan, Lorana, and T'mar. Oh, and Shaneese. Everybody love everybody. Ugh, fine; if you want it to be a thing, go for it. Just don't base a whole book on it. A good 3/4 of the book is just Lorana telling Fiona how she doesn't mind sharing Kindan with her. Over and over and over and over. Ugh.The dragons are sick. Their numbers are dwindling. I get it. There have been 6 books about it. Stop with the melodrama and get to the story! I read about Pern for the DRAGONS, not the play-by-play of daily life in the weyr. That's what the 'atlas of pern' and 'guide to pern' books are for. This whole novel could have been compressed into a few chapters at the beginning of a much, much better novel. I had to force myself to finish it, which isn't something I normally say about Pern books.
    • 5/5
      This book continues the story of Fiona, T’Mar, Lorana & Kindan and their fight to save the dragons. I couldn’t put it down the first 200 pages flew by then it slowed a bit. This is a sad book the Weyrs don’t have enough dragons to fly thread so there are a lot of injuries and deaths in this book , one that almost made me cry (No Spoilers). There is a lot of drama and action Fiona is one amazing weyrwoman she fights to keep the moral up when some just think everything is lost. Which this book seems to say at times. I hope this story arc is not the end of the Pern series. The blurb at the end says that Anne will be writing the next book with Todd to join him in the final drama of his tale of Pern. I sure hope that it’s just this storyline and not all of Pern that is ending!I really enjoyed this book it was like going back to see old friends you have missed. These characters are well written fully fleshed out. I just did not like the cliffhanger ending but if that is the worst thing I can say about it then I would say I loved it!4 ½ Stars
    • 4/5
      Quick summary--this book picks up the story that began in Dragonsblood and continued in Dragonheart.My feelings about the "post Anne" novels set on the planet Pern have been mixed. While I enjoyed reading them, they just didn't "feel" right as compared to the novels up to "Skies".That being said, I really enjoyed reading this novel. Todd seems to be "growing" in how he writes about the dragons and people of Pern. I was able to get to "know" the characters better and understand what they were going thru than I had previously. For any Pern fan, this is a book worth reading.My only real "disappointment" is that the story isn't over yet. I'm going to have to wait until May 2011 to see how it all ends.