Nerilka's Story

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Summary: Hated the end
Review: I liked this whole book except the end which I think is the most important part of a book.Also the main character who I absolutly dispised. I thought Nerilka seemed like a self centered brat towards the end of this book. She could be a little more humble.

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Summary: Good, but not her best work
Review: I love McCaffery's Pern series, but I was just a little disappointed with Nerilka. Perhaps I'm just a romantic at heart, but Nerilka's "romance" with Alessan seemed a little more 13th century Earth than that between, say, F'lar and Lessa in "Dragonflight". The first person perspective doesn't really add all that much. The material that isn't covered in "Moreta" doesn't really add much. To the book's credit, however, it gave very nice insights into how the "common" folk lived, and how they saw the holders and the dragonriders.

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Summary: A wonderful imaginative story.
Review: I thought that this story was a wonderful one of Anne's. Although it wasn't the best, I have never found a book in her Pern series that I have hated. It was most definetly worth my time.

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Summary: excellent book, one of the best.
Review: i truly enjoyed this book. it is the same story as Moreta's but told from another character's point of view. Nerilka is an extremely emotional character who is extremely wonderful to read about. it is one of those rare book that you just can't put down and my copy is extremely well worn from all of my friends reading it.

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Summary: a very sweet first-person story of love and tragedy
Review: I very much enjoyed this story. I've read all of Anne McCaffrey's stories of the Dragonriders of Pern and this is the first one I felt was a proper perspective of life during the great plague that nearly wiped out all of Pern. Nerilka was a very believable character and I feel very sympathetic toward her and her tragedy of losing her family, and her joy at finding love with the lord holder. However, the book was too short for me to enjoy fully. I would have liked to have seen more done with her.

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Summary: Great
Review: I'm really glad Anne McCaffrey wrote this book because I was wondering how Nerilka got to Ruatha in Moreta. It's a really sad book of the classic story of the unappreciated younger daughter. You have to read this if you read Moreta.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I've loved the books I've read so far in the Dragonriders series, with the exception of Nerilka.

1) I read this book right after reading Moreta and found it too repetitive. This story may have been better intertwined as part of Moreta.
2) I didn't like the ending to Moreta and this book was too much of a reminder of that ending.

Perhaps leaving some time between reading the Moreta and Nerilka books it would make Nerilka more enjoyable.

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Summary: Rider of Lorantha(please don't ask(I'm in love with Pern))
Review: Nerilaka's Story is a great book with an insight on hold life. A must read for all McCaffrey fans.

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Summary: A Unique Book in the Pern Series!
Review: Nerilka is a hardworking rather plain daughter of the Lord Holder of Fort Hold. She spends most of her summers gathering and laying up medicines and other stores. She spends the rest of her time helping in the kitchens and sewing or whatever other work needs doing. When her father decides to take some of her younger, unmarried sisters to the Ruatha Gather in hopes of snaring Lord Alessan as a husband, she believes that she will get to go too, but her father leaves her behind. Nerilka thinks that this is very cruel because her best friend was Lord Alessan's first wife before she was killed in a tragic runnerbeast accident and she used to write to Nerilka about Ruatha. Nerilka would give just about anything to see it.

When Fort Hold hears the terrible news about the sickness spreading across Pern, Nerilka immediately takes as many stores to the Harper Hall as she can, knowing full well that her father would never give them anything. Her father forces one of the dragonriders to bring him back to Fort Hold, flagrantly disobeying the rule of the Masterhealer to stay where you were when the sickness started to spread. Nerilka soon learns that her mother and all of her sisters died of the plague. Her mother is barely in the ground before her father brings his mistress and her family into the Hold. Nerilka cannot bear to serve someone younger than herself who lords it over everyone at the Hold. When she overhears her father denying the Masterhealer and Masterharper medication and other supplies, Nerilka sneaks out several large sacks of the essentials and leaves with them. She starts treating the illness at a camp just outside of the Fort Hold and then travels to small holdings that are far away from Hold and Weyr.

Nerilka soon hears that Ruatha Hold is all but desolate, she knows that she is needed most there. She arrives to discover that Lord Alessan has lost all of his family, but his sister Oklina. As she struggles with the few survivors of Ruatha Hold to develop a vaccine that can save all of Pern's livestock, she finds herself falling in love with Lord Alessan. She knows that he will never care for her, especially since he loves Weyrwoman Moreta, but when news of the terrible tragedy of Moreta's death reaches Ruatha, it changes everything...

Nerilka's Story is essentially the same story contained in Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, but told from a different perspective. This is the first time in the series that Anne McCaffrey wrote a book about someone other than a dragonrider or a Harper so it was very interesting to see life on Pern from a completely different perspective. I liked Nerilka - she kept trying to stand up for herself and to do what was right even when everyone else was trying to hold her back and keep her down. I also enjoyed seeing the story of Moreta from an outsider's point of view and learned a lot about Pern at the time of Moreta that I didn't know before. My only real complaint about the book is that it is so short! I was able to read it in about 1 hour (I am a fast reader, though). If you have enjoyed any of Anne McCaffrey's other books in the Pern series, I know that you will enjoy this one!

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Summary: A Unique Book in the Pern Series!
Review: Nerilka is a hardworking rather plain daughter of the Lord Holder of Fort Hold. She spends most of her summers gathering and laying up medicines and other stores. She spends the rest of her time helping in the kitchens and sewing or whatever other work needs doing. When her father decides to take some of her younger, unmarried sisters to the Ruatha Gather in hopes of snaring Lord Alessan as a husband, she believes that she will get to go too, but her father leaves her behind. Nerilka thinks that this is very cruel because her best friend was Lord Alessan's first wife before she was killed in a tragic runnerbeast accident and she used to write to Nerilka about Ruatha. Nerilka would give just about anything to see it.

When Fort Hold hears the terrible news about the sickness spreading across Pern, Nerilka immediately takes as many stores to the Harper Hall as she can, knowing full well that her father would never give them anything. Her father forces one of the dragonriders to bring him back to Fort Hold, flagrantly disobeying the rule of the Masterhealer to stay where you were when the sickness started to spread. Nerilka soon learns that her mother and all of her sisters died of the plague. Her mother is barely in the ground before her father brings his mistress and her family into the Hold. Nerilka cannot bear to serve someone younger than herself who lords it over everyone at the Hold. When she overhears her father denying the Masterhealer and Masterharper medication and other supplies, Nerilka sneaks out several large sacks of the essentials and leaves with them. She starts treating the illness at a camp just outside of the Fort Hold and then travels to small holdings that are far away from Hold and Weyr.

Nerilka soon hears that Ruatha Hold is all but desolate, she knows that she is needed most there. She arrives to discover that Lord Alessan has lost all of his family, but his sister Oklina. As she struggles with the few survivors of Ruatha Hold to develop a vaccine that can save all of Pern's livestock, she finds herself falling in love with Lord Alessan. She knows that he will never care for her, especially since he loves Weyrwoman Moreta, but when news of the terrible tragedy of Moreta's death reaches Ruatha, it changes everything...

Nerilka's Story is essentially the same story contained in Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, but told from a different perspective. This is the first time in the series that Anne McCaffrey wrote a book about someone other than a dragonrider or a Harper so it was very interesting to see life on Pern from a completely different perspective. I liked Nerilka - she kept trying to stand up for herself and to do what was right even when everyone else was trying to hold her back and keep her down. I also enjoyed seeing the story of Moreta from an outsider's point of view and learned a lot about Pern at the time of Moreta that I didn't know before. My only real complaint about the book is that it is so short! I was able to read it in about 1 hour (I am a fast reader, though). If you have enjoyed any of Anne McCaffrey's other books in the Pern series, I know that you will enjoy this one!