Title: Terrible, simply terrible
Product review: I wanted to like this book. I was mildly disappointed by Dragon's Kin and EXTREMELY disappointed at Dragon's Blood. I am 32 years old and I have been reading Pern adventures for over 20 years. There is no feeling or heart in Todd's books. Everything is so perfunctory. I feel like I'm going through a checklist from a bad screenplay. Children die. Check. Fire lizards die. Check. People die. Check. Character development is so lacking that the reader could really care less when something "significant" occurs.The saddest thing is that this doesn't seem like Anne's Pern at all. It's not consistent with what I know of it. Obscure, irrelevant, extreme events occur for the sake of pushing the story. Nothing about it seems natural. Nothing about it flows. If Todd had writer's block during the creation of this book, it's obvious by the stinted, stilted storying telling. Maybe he should stick to computer science.
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