All the Weyrs of Pern - Chapter Sixteen

[kalinara]

I'm starting to feel a little guilty about this book, kind of similar to how I felt reviewing Dragonsdawn. Though for a slightly different reason. I felt like my reviews of that book came across as more negative than I actually felt about the book, because I couldn't stop harping on my areas of complaint.

When reading it for pleasure, I was still annoyed at those plot points, but I could carry my annoyance through every relevant chapter, I didn't start ranting anew each time. So really, Kenjo's bit was annoying but not as much as these reviews made it sound.

This book doesn't have the same problem. There isn't any plot beat that immediately pisses me off like that, but I do feel like going chapter by chapter makes the book feel a lot more...boring than it actually is. There's a lot of exposition and a lot of technical talk, and a lot of preparation. But when reading for pleasure, it doesn't feel like it takes as long as it does here, when it's stretching out over weeks and months.

Oh well. That's the nature of this kind of review. If you didn't know what you were getting into, you wouldn't be here. :-D

( So what ARE they doing today...? )