Moreta is a book about a pandemic, and its hard to make those fun... If you've bothered to find out anything about the book in advance (or read the preceding Pern books, where it is referred to), you know that its not going to be a fun ride. On the other hand, the book is an interesting read, and its educational to find out how much knowledge has been lost in the Pern universe between Moreta and Lessa. For example, its clear in Moreta that everyone knows they moved from the Southern continent, whereas that is much less clear in the books set in Lessa's time. Its hard to say that a book about thousands of people dying is enjoyable. However, the story is a gripping one, and I'm glad I read it.

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I really enjoyed some of McCaffrey's other Pern books, but this one just didn't do much for me. The friend who introduced me to the Pern books told me that this one was really sad, but I just never got emotionally invested. There were a lot of characters mentioned, but only a few were developed and I had trouble remembering who was who. The book could have been 100 pages shorter and probably would have been improved by the editing. ( )

Moreta is supposed to be some sort of mythological figure in Pern history, of some sort. She is the rider of a queen dragon, and while at a festival she discovers the outbreak of a disease, along with some others.

Some of her fellows take the ostrich approach to the situation, and her queen is pregnant, so to try and get the cure to areas ahead of the disease wave she has to borrow someone else's lizard.

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The first book that ever made me cry. Dragons would seem so far out of realm of experience, yet McCaffrey makes them so real I imagine myself on Pern. Pern is being devastated by a plague - Moreta takes to the skies to help ferry medicine, despite the risks. Perhaps the best of the Pern series. ( )

I enjoyed the original Pern books, but once it got deep into sequelitis, the stories got much weaker and less interesting. Yet another series that should have stopped after the first set of inspired, mysterious books. ( )