Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

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Summary: Flies ahead of all other McCaffrey Novels!
Review: In Pern a devistating disease is unleashed at a Runner hold, that quickly spreads across the northern continent, killing beasts and humans. As the Healer craft hall battles the disease, they make an important breakthrough that leads to the destruction of the disease. While this is happening the dragonriders try to get their forces together enough to fight the thread that is Coming from the horrible Red Star. A must read

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Summary: Rider of Lorantha(I love Pern)
Review: Moreta is a GREAT book! It explains Moreta's song. This book is really sad too but a MUST read!!! It really makes you feel like you are there. This is one of McCaffrey's best. Don't skip it!!!!!!!

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Summary: The Lady, the Lord Holder, and the Plague
Review: Moreta is the rider of the dominant queen dragon of Pern. As such she is the planets first lady. It is the custom for the rider of the queen to be mated to the rider of the male dragon who mates with the queen during her last mating flight. Moreta is not happy with this mating. At a gather (large party) she meets a Lord Holder she can really love. Being both a spunky and a caring Dragonlady, Moreta expends herself selflessly battling a deadly plague that is killing both animals and humans. It is this double battle, the battle to choose her own mate, against custom, and the battle to stop the plaque, that forms the suspense of this marvelous novel.

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Summary: The Lady, the Lord Holder, and the Plague
Review: Moreta is the rider of the dominant queen dragon of Pern. As such she is the planets first lady. It is the custom for the rider of the queen to be mated to the rider of the male dragon who mates with the queen during her last mating flight. Moreta is not happy with this mating. At a gather (large party) she meets a Lord Holder she can really love. Being both a spunky and a caring Dragonlady, Moreta expends herself selflessly battling a deadly plague that is killing both animals and humans. It is this double battle, the battle to choose her own mate, against custom, and the battle to stop the plaque, that forms the suspense of this marvelous novel.

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Summary: One of the best pern books yet!
Review: Moreta is Weyrwoman at Fort Weyr with Sh'gall as Weyrleader. Moreta loves Orlith, her dragon queen, and would do anything for her, but she does wish that someone else had flown her during her mating flight. Sh'gall is a very able weyrleader in the air when fighting thread, but he does not do as well with people. Moreta is sure that they will go together to the Ruatha Gather, after all it is Lord Alessan's first gather as a Lord Holder and everyone will be there. However, Sh'gall decides to go to the Telgar Gather and to see the strange cat that was captured in the ocean and put on display there. Desdra, Moreta's anxious housekeeper insists that Moreta cannot go without Sh'gall and that it is a terrible slight to her mistress, but Moreta wouldn't miss a good gather for the world!

Moreta has a wonderful time at the gather with Lord Alessan. They are both avid racers and enjoy watching the runnerbeasts compete. When one of the runnerbeasts suddenly collapses, no one is sure what is wrong with the beast, but the fun of the gather continues. Moreta lingers at Ruatha Hold, but is finally forced to leave. She is awoken in the early morning hours by a frantic Sh'gall claiming that Masterhealer Capiam has diagnosed a plague that the wild cat brought over with it from the Southern Continent. All of Pern is in a panic as news of the unknown illness spreads.

All too soon there is no hold or weyr that is untouched by the unknown ailment. But Moreta is a healer and she is determined to help in whatever way she can. She continues to urge the dragonriders to take care and helps unite multiple weyrs to fly thread together, as well as help care for the sick and wounded. When Masterhealer Capiam finds a cure, Moreta is thrilled and ready to do whatever is necessary to give the vaccination to everyone on Pern before a second wave of the mutated virus spreads more death. She cannot understand why some weyrleaders simply refuse to see the truth and will not help take the medicine to the far-reaching holds. Moreta cannot bear to see people die unnecessarily so she secretly arranges for dragonriders from all the Weyrs to help. When part of her plan falls through, Moreta has no choice but to go and help deliver the vaccination herself. But she cannot rider her beloved Orlith because she is guarding her clutch. When she borrows her mentor's queen Holth, the tragedy begins...

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. I first heard of Moreta's Ride in Dragonsinger when Menolly leads the ballad with her fire lizards. I knew that this book was going to have a bittersweet ending, but I love the Pern series so I thought that I would give it a try. I thought that Moreta was a great character - strong, but not overpowering. She tried to make the best of her situation and found joy and love in unlikely places. I thoroughly enjoyed the romance between Moreta and Alessan, but I felt so sorry for Alessan for having to deal with so much tragedy and so many bitter disappointments when he was so young. I also enjoyed seeing the inner workings of a Weyr and becoming familiar with a Weyr other than Benden (much as I love it, of course). I thought that all of the secondary characters were wonderful, too. It was interesting to see how quickly knowledge was lost from when the first settlers arrived on Pern to the time of Moreta. I believe that the sickness was something like pneumonia or some other viral disease that few people die of on Earth, but they simply did not know how to combat any unfamiliar disease on Pern. The plot was very interesting and had a nice, smooth flow as always. Another wonderful addition to the Pern series!

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Summary: One of Pern's Greatest Heroines!
Review: Moreta is Weyrwoman at Fort Weyr with Sh'gall as Weyrleader. Moreta loves Orlith, her dragon queen, and would do anything for her, but she does wish that someone else had flown her during her mating flight. Sh'gall is a very able weyrleader in the air when fighting thread, but he does not do as well with people. Moreta is sure that they will go together to the Ruatha Gather, after all it is Lord Alessan's first gather as a Lord Holder and everyone will be there. However, Sh'gall decides to go to the Telgar Gather and to see the strange cat that was captured in the ocean and put on display there. Desdra, Moreta's anxious housekeeper insists that Moreta cannot go without Sh'gall and that it is a terrible slight to her mistress, but Moreta wouldn't miss a good gather for the world!

Moreta has a wonderful time at the gather with Lord Alessan. They are both avid racers and enjoy watching the runnerbeasts compete. When one of the runnerbeasts suddenly collapses, no one is sure what is wrong with the beast, but the fun of the gather continues. Moreta lingers at Ruatha Hold, but is finally forced to leave. She is awoken in the early morning hours by a frantic Sh'gall claiming that Masterhealer Capiam has diagnosed a plague that the wild cat brought over with it from the Southern Continent. All of Pern is in a panic as news of the unknown illness spreads.

All too soon there is no hold or weyr that is untouched by the unknown ailment. But Moreta is a healer and she is determined to help in whatever way she can. She continues to urge the dragonriders to take care and helps unite multiple weyrs to fly thread together, as well as help care for the sick and wounded. When Masterhealer Capiam finds a cure, Moreta is thrilled and ready to do whatever is necessary to give the vaccination to everyone on Pern before a second wave of the mutated virus spreads more death. She cannot understand why some weyrleaders simply refuse to see the truth and will not help take the medicine to the far-reaching holds. Moreta cannot bear to see people die unnecessarily so she secretly arranges for dragonriders from all the Weyrs to help. When part of her plan falls through, Moreta has no choice but to go and help deliver the vaccination herself. But she cannot rider her beloved Orlith because she is guarding her clutch. When she borrows her mentor's queen Holth, the tragedy begins...

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. I first heard of Moreta's Ride in Dragonsinger when Menolly leads the ballad with her fire lizards. I knew that this book was going to have a bittersweet ending, but I love the Pern series so I thought that I would give it a try. I thought that Moreta was a great character - strong, but not overpowering. She tried to make the best of her situation and found joy and love in unlikely places. I thoroughly enjoyed the romance between Moreta and Alessan, but I felt so sorry for Alessan for having to deal with so much tragedy and so many bitter disappointments when he was so young. I also enjoyed seeing the inner workings of a Weyr and becoming familiar with a Weyr other than Benden (much as I love it, of course). I thought that all of the secondary characters were wonderful, too. It was interesting to see how quickly knowledge was lost from when the first settlers arrived on Pern to the time of Moreta. I believe that the sickness was something like pneumonia or some other viral disease that few people die of on Earth, but they simply did not know how to combat any unfamiliar disease on Pern. The plot was very interesting and had a nice, smooth flow as always. Another wonderful addition to the Pern series!

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Summary: The book was one of A.M.'s best!
Review: Moreta was an awesome book. it explains the story behind the Ballad of Moreta's Ride. the only problem with the book is that you don't get to see the ballad!! Also, McCaffrey mixed up her stories just a tad for in Dragonflight they say Moreta can talk to any dragon in the Weyrs, but unfortuantly that's not true. To fully understand this book you also have to read Nerilka's story, which goes along with this book but from a holder's point of view.

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Summary: Absolutely pitiful
Review: Moreta was perhaps the most boring book in the entire series! I mean, the characters didn't really show much personality in this story except the part about Moreta liking runner-beasts. And anyways, I thought Lessa was the one to have discovered how to travel into time and not Moreta. The story line was really sorry and the climax of the whole book wasn't excactly heart-pounding. This is perhaps the only book in the entire series that was really bad. So read the others.

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Summary: Pretty good
Review: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern was certainly not the best of Anne McCaffrey's works, but much of it was well worth reading. The end was a surprising twist, something that one does not usually expect. That pretty much made the story. But I agree with one of the above reviews: wasn't Lessa the one who discovered going "Between times?" However, I enjoyed this book more than Nerilka's Story.

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Summary: A realistic heroine-----and a great role model.
Review: Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern was probably the best in the series. It tells the story of Moreta, dragonrider for the golden queen dragon Orlith. When a horrible plague is let loose by a inported feline from the Southern Continent, only the dragonriders can save the people! This book was well done in that it didn't contridict much mentioned about it in Dragonflight and other Pern books. Someone wrote that Moreta did not have the ability to speak to all dragons in the Weyrs like she should have according to Dragonflight. Well, she DOES! She just doesn't discover the ability until later in the book. Moreta is a very believable character and has become a personal heroine and role model for me. I recommend this book to any dragon- or fantasy-lover!