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 o...

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...

Dude, even McCaffrey got bored with her own new (deeply boring) characters halfway through the book, chucked the whole Holdless plotlines for huge swathes, and went back to focusing on Piemur and Toric and the politics of the Southern continent. It irks my sense of order that huge chunks of the through-narrative from the original (in my mind) six books/two trilogies has to be continued here before being picked up as the A story once again in All the Weyrs of Pern again. It seems a poorly put-tog...

Definitely not the best of the series.

3.5 stars Although I enjoyed this book it felt like two different stories mashed together, along with bits and pieces of the other books thrown in. The reason for that I guess is that it was over a long period of time. Piemur and the continuing excavations in the south were fascinating but I kept wishing they would come across a Dictionary as it would help immensely.

This isn't one of my favourite dragon books - its very bitty until the last third, because its covering such a long period of time. The last third is key to what follows, though.

Always a fan of Pern and its many wonders. Thella is such a great character in regards to villains. You seriously want to see her maimed or dead, you dislike her that much. And I love the details of other things going on in the world of Pern at large, especially things pertaining to the Southern Continent. Those bits are actually probably my favorite.

If the entire book had been about Piemur and the continuing excavations of Landing I would have enjoyed it much more. The continuation of Aramina's story from The Girl Who Heard Dragons was interesting but mixing the two plots made for a rather disjointed book.

Warning, this story is at times disturbingly violent. I think I may have enjoyed this one more on the second or third reading, though, because I already knew which characters would turn out to be super evil/crazy and violent, and how far they would go, so I was prepared. It's a story that ranges over about 15 years of the characters' lives, some of them children in the beginning, growing into adults with families of their own. The action flips between the Northern and Southern continents of Pern...

I ended up getting really interested in the characters introduced in this book. At first they seemed like a distraction from the story I was impatient to get on with, but by the end they had important places in the story and I really liked some of them. Oh, and there's more Piemur. If you're thinking of skipping this book, I would say don't. As well as being quite well written (compared to some of the other co-authored books I've read in the series—ugh), there are key plot points revealed that y...

One of the Core Books of the Pern SequenceI have loved this entire series from day one. If you haven't already done so, begin with the first book and read forward. Although Renegades is terrific as a stand-alone, it is far more memorable and meaningful when read in its place in the Dragonriders of Pern sequence.Recommended for everyone.

Took a while to really ramp up but once I pinned down what characters to root for, it got fun. And the discovery at the end is still one of my favorite memorable scenes from the series.

I quite enjoyed the intertwining stories of this book. The progression of plot is a little spotty and the climax a bit late, but the relationships between the characters involved is just as interesting.

I loved it! Yes there were slow parts and yes there were a few too many names to remember. But the STORY, omg, the STORY.I looooove how some books deal with the same timeline/plotline as otherbooks but tells it from other perspectives, adding depth to the world and story as a whole. This book covers the same time period as the very first three of the series but tells the stories from the point of view of various Renegades (holdless (re: people who are not in charge or living in a Hold) of Pern.

I like fantasy. I really do. I'm really starting to not like this Pern series. Every time I pick up a Pern book, I sigh with reluctance. Every time I pick up a Pern book, I would rather pick up my phone to play a time wasting game like solitaire or Sudoku. I think it's the writing style. It is awfully dry. Then the plotting. The ending of the primary plot about the primary protagonist and antagonist (I think primary) was telegraphed from the very beginning, down to the weapons. Then, there is ab...

The Renegades of Pern is a disjointed entry in the Pern series. The time in this book covers the time in Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, the novella The Girl Who Heard Dragons, and the Harper Hall trilogy.Renegades reads liked a deleted scene reel. It gives some backstory, but putting it all together for its own side story doesn't work well. Because this book parallels the time in the others, it's forced to skip forward to whatever parallel plot plot is happening. Renegades focuses

I thought I had read all the Pern books, but I don’t remember this one. This is the same time period of “The Dragonriders of Pern” but told from the perspective of those outside of the Weyrs, the Lord Holders, those under the Lord Holders protection and those who fell between the cracks, the holdless and those who preferred to be on their own, such as the traders.While the narrative goes in a straight line chronologically, the story jumps around from one place to another, from one persons vi...

Where I thought Moreta and Nerilka should have been combined into one book, this one felt like it should have been two separate books. There are two very different stories haphazardly crammed into one. It's kind of a mess. It jumps all over the place in location and time and point of view. And every time I read one of the love scenes, I just roll my eyes. They are so awkward and forced! I am beginning to ask myself how McCaffrey became so famous when she was turning out books like this.

Thread have been a threat to Pern as far back as people can remember, devouring everything but stone. In exchange for protection by the dragonriders, the peole have provided support to the Wyers. Some chose to live outoutside the holds or have been exiled. From some of these outsiders, a revolt against the system starts.

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As usual, Anne excels in her writing at making the mundane interesting and enjoyable to read, and making this world feel like a real, living place. Particularly, the mentions of Lord Fax's story playing out in the background during the early parts of this book was both a good treat for longtime readers, and served to show the reader that the world still exists outside the scope of the story. I also enjoyed the growing plot relevance of the scifi elements of the setting towards the end of the boo...

Renegades of Pern is a fun book and it always feels to me like it has a different tone from the earlier pern books. The first Pern books were all fantasy. Showing us a medieval world complete with Lords and dragons and then we got a prequel that opened up a big secret-- the people of Pern arrived there on spaceships from Earth. The dragons were genetically engineered and the complete absence of technology in their world was partly a choice of their ancestors, but mostly because of a series of ca...

Overall Impression: Meh. 2 stars.Way back in 2019 (which feels longer ago than it really was), I was doing a Pern re-read, reading the dead-tree books since the library didn't the rights to ebook versions. Unfortunately, our schedule changed making it hard for me to get to the library, and then the pandemic came around, and I totally forgot that I had never finished off the series. Recently, I got an email from Overdrive telling me that the library had decided to actually act on my 2019 request

This Pern book tells several complete stories combined into a larger story via common characters and the world of Pern. Chronologically, it covers many years from before Fax conquered Ruatha 10 years prior to the start of Dragonflight up to the prologue of All the Weyrs of Pern (AtWoP). The book could stand alone but it includes many episodes from other books for that period and leads directly into the story of AtWoP.As mentioned there are several sub-plots. They are woven together, but it didn'...

Imagine living in a world where you have to fear for your life everyday. Thin strands of steel, millimeters thin, known as thread, falling from the sky cutting people up, this is the fear people live in The Renegades of Pern. The people of Pern only have one defense against this thread, and that would be the Dragonriders, people trained in riding dragons. These dragons use their flames to quickly destroy thread with heat as it falls from the sky. Under the stress of thread, kings constantly figh...

Main charactersThellaRobintonJaxomPiemurJaygeToricSet in the same timeframe as The White Dragon, The Renegades of Pern shares the same cast of characters. Thella, flees an arranged marriage to seek her fortune as a holdless renegade, recruiting the dregs of Pern to raid and pillage. She wreaks havoc on Jayge's family and searches the world for Aramina, the girl who hears all the dragons.Piemur explores the southern continent and discovers the original landing site.Toric expands his hold, begrudg...

This book is a bit difficult to break down but essentially of all the Pern books in the main series this one struggles to match the others in pace and attraction. This is pretty frustrating as it contains the game changer for the dragonriders and the rest of Pern.I took a long time with this one partly because I've had less time to read and partly because the majority of this book is hard to get through. It only really picks up at the end. And does it pick up!This one is an important part of the...

This story is unique in that its timeline runs parallel with several other novels in the Pern series. It has a two-fold purpose. One is to tell a new story of the trader Jayge trying to protect Aramina, the girl who hears dragons. Interwoven through their story are glimpses of important historical events taking place in Pern society which were seen in other novels, but retold this time through new eyes. At the beginning section of the novel, I was unsure how McCaffrey was going to tie in the man...

This is one of my least favorite of the Pern series. It's not essential in order to enjoy any of the other books in this series. However, I did enjoy the ending more this time, as I had forgotten a lot of it.I hate getting into Thella's POV. And I felt that switching back and forth from Jayge & Aramina's story to Piemur's story didn't help the overall suspense. I felt that there wasn't really one overarching theme or plot. It's just a bridge showing the back story of Sharra from the White Dragon...

Interesting continuation of the Pern storyline, but not my favorite of the books to this time. The story jumps from scene to scene and year to year although, it is all in the 9th pass of Thread. The story's main characters are Jayge and his traveling band, Thella and her murderous band of thugs, and Aramina who can talk/hear dragons even though she is not impressed. I will say, IMO, Aramina played a minor roll in the story even though she was hyped up as a major character. Her presence does furt...