Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

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Summary: A suspencful fanticy with a real life plot.
Review: A favorit of the Anne McCaffrey titals MORETA Dragonlady of Pern is literaly plagued with suspence and fear so that once I picked up the book no one had to encourage me to read the whole book. Once I started reading I was able to visualize everything no matter how little it mattered I felt like I was there as part of the story through it all.

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Summary: A wonderful book from the pen of Anne McAffrey
Review: A good author can make a book sound intersting so that it is interesting. A great author can make words into stories and they flow through your veins as you read. An author like this sends a message to the readers. At the end of Moreta's story I cried, and my mother said it will pass, it was a good story, it made you think. It was more than a good story part of it will stay with me forever. The idea of someone feeling that way. Each person, as they read Moreta will have pictures running through thier heads,of the glorious gather at Ruatha, of golden dragons and timing it, of that one night when she harvested ging and needlethorn.Of Holth jumping up and going BETWEEN. The emotions let out in this tale fills up your senses, like a storm in the desert or a walk in the rain. I loved it, I got to know Moreta. This proves Anne McAffrey's writing is great, not good. "Black, blacker, blackest;colder beyond all frozen things, Where is between when there is naught, To Life but fragile dragon wings" Thankyou, for sharing your writting Ms McAffrey, you are a lot more than a middle aged woman with silver hair! Suzan

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Summary: Incredible book. Riveting, tells the story very well.
Review: A very artful interweaving of love and bravery. Moreta is an incredible heroine and her dragon Orlith is incredible as well. All the characters from Oklina to Alessan are wonderful. You really feel for the characters, feel what they do, and see, hear, touch, taste, and experience everything in the dynamic world of Pern.

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Summary: Anne McCaffrey
Review: Although I have had the chance to tell her this personally, I must reiterate my fascination with her ability to slip real world issues into a tale without making the reader feel preached to. Although some issues become obsolete, they usually arise again just in another form and I find myself wanting to re-read Ms. MacCaffrey's work to remember how I felt in the past. This book tackles the subject of a virulent disease wiping out humanity and the struggle to stabilize and halt its devistating effects. There are so many issues at present that can take the place of that disease in our real world which makes this book re-readable anytime you feel a bit hopeless. By the end, I feel more hopeful for our future because there will always be a Moreta in real life, maybe not on a dragon rider but fighting hard for a cure.

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Summary: Absolutely the best!!
Review: Anne McCaffrey has outdone herself with this book and she herself should get at least four or five stars for just being one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time. I loved the book Moreta; Draognlady of Pern. The way that it deals with everday life and the inevitability of such thing as "timming it." The secret love that blosomed between her and Alesson could never have been any other way and it is truely dear to all those who wish something like that would happen to them. BRAVO!

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Summary: Most skillfully rendered of McCaffrey's Pern novels.
Review: Anne McCaffrey's talent lies not in her ability to write lyric prose, but in her ability to tell a good story and keep the reader enthralled. Moreta is truly the best book in the whole of the Pern series, both for the writing skill displayed and the sheer poignant beauty of the story itself; even I (who values prose quality sometimes more than story) could become convinced as to the skill of writing Anne displays with this one. This is a book to read all in one sitting, if you can. It is a book to read deep into the night because you have to know how it ends -- even though you've had hints, you suspect, you still have to know. It will touch you every time you read it. Recommended!

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Summary: The Most Beautiful of All Pern Novels
Review: Finally the song is explained. Moreta is the seventh of the Dragonriders of Pern series and by far the most moving. The story is engaging and a quick read. It is well worth the time put into it, not only for the satisfying feeling that comes with the understanding of the Pern saga, but for the chance to see Pern as it was. A fabulous book that I'd recommend for any dragonlover or fantasy enthusiast

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Summary: Moving....
Review: I actually read this book a few years ago but I still think of it a lot whenever I read any of the Dragonrider series... This book is special because it shows how the people of Pern must face other threats than thread throughout their past present and future. For Moreta to die because of tiredness while involved in transportating medicine and get lost between shows how `real` Pern and its people are in Anne McCaffrey`s books. This book will always be one of my favourites:) -Bridge

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Summary: unfulfilling
Review: I am an avid reader of all Ms McCaffery's books, but most particularly the Pern books. The world that has been created , and all the wonderful, complex characters that call Pern home have many times provided a 'safe place'for me when I was feeling down. Thankyou to A.M After reading, through the other Pern books many times of the great legend of Moreta, I was thrilled to be able, at last to read Moreta's story. Moreta was told in the true Pern style, and was indeed an epic tragedy. However, I was left unsatisfied with the ending. I must admit to feeling rather let down by the circumstances that led to Moreta becoming the legend she is on Pern, and in paricular, her death. Throughout the other Pern novels, Moreta's death was told as a great tragedy, huge, sad, and a momentous event in Perns history. I must admit though, I failed to notice when she actually died. the chapter finishes with Moreta going between (and dying). With going between such a necessary part of a dragonriders job, in the first reading I failed to notice that Moreta had actually died till the funeral preparations had begun. Don't get me wrong, the Pern books are wonderful, magical books, and Moreta is an epic story, but ultimately, for me, Moreta did not satisfy my sense of tuly grand tradgedy.

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Summary: One of the better ones
Review: I found Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern a nice change from the other Dragonrider novels. Moreta is not stunningly beautiful like Lessa, and she's not a Benden Weyrwoman. She's from Fort, and she doesn't like her weyrmate, she respects him, but does not consider him a possible soulmate. And the fact that Leri was a competent Weyrwoman and feisty even in what seem to be the last few years of her life, is a delightfuly different situation. Lessa and F'lar (much as I love them) seemed annoyingly perfect, and Moreta is very different. I liked the minor characters here too, Oklina was enjoyable, and MasterHealer Capiam was quite interesting as well, B'lerion and Desdra were amusing, as were the different stages of harpering-very funny. I think one of my favorite characters in this particular book was K'lon, because we so rarely see any of the less important riders, seeing bits of the story through a bluerider's eyes is very refreshing. The only thing I didn't like was the rather predictable romace between Moreta and Alessan, frankly, that annoyed me. Though the fact that Moreta had the bad taste to fall in love with a Lord Holder was another nice change from Anne McCaffrey's typical Weyrwoman. And the book had me in tears at the end, it was so sad!
I strongly suggest you read it, Pern fan or not. Though obviously, a member of the latter category wont enjoy it nearly as much as a member of the former. ^_^