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Title: Pern Gone Bad
Review: This book was a disaster. Todd McCaffrey should not be allowed to play in his mother's world, because it's really quite sad what he's doing to it. Even putting aside the various canon violations that he gleefully writes into existence (Don't even get me started on the whers...I almost cried), he's just not a very good writer. His characters aren't very empathetic or realistic, and it's difficult to get immersed into the world. He jumps around like crazy between characters and the plot (such as it is) is very stale and stolen from various incarnations of previous books in the series.I am 100% sure that if his mother wasn't the writer who created this wonderful world, he would have never been published. This book and all the other Pern books by Todd are nepotism at its worst. I thoroughly enjoyed all of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books, but as far as I am concerned the series died as soon the moment her son attempted to take it over.
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