The White dragon by Anne McCaffrey/ Book review

Of the first PERN trilogy, this was the book I was most excited about, it was the one that disappointed me the most. I liked the relationship between Jaxom and his dragon Ruth, but I found his character very bland and one dimensional. The book was also very slow and went over things that had been dealt with in previous novels like the dragon mating process which just kept coming back and I found myself skipping through quite a few pages to get through it.
This novel is one of the founding blocks for dragons in fantasy today and I really wanted to like it but just didn't work for me. I will be continuing my way through Anne McCaffrey's writing, I have the Harper Hall trilogy waiting.

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[winterchild]

Thx for the review, I love Annes other trilogy, so I'm really happy to hear that she has written more about pern 😊😊

Ps keep up the good work 😁😁

[tintinaus]

Thanks for the review. I agree that this book can seem slow(not a problem for me personally), and disjointed. It is covering a lot of time and trying top show Jaxom growing into maturity while at the same time moving the larger Pern story on as well, something McCaffery is not totally successful at. Another aspect I don't think Anne manages well ties into another of your complaints. Much of Jaxom's identity is tied in with his connection with Ruth, and I feel much of the "mating" that goes on between both dragon and people(which sorta squicks me out to be honest), is to highlight how he must realise that Ruth will never mature enough to be sexually active, a hard pill to swallow considering the society's foregrounding of bloodlines and breeding(Once again of both animals and men).