I Read What?!

So I've been putting off this book, probably unfairly, for a while now. I remember nothing from it. I'm not even sure I ever read it, though I do remember a bit with Sebell and Menolly. Maybe I flipped through it at the library. The last two Pern novels were so aggravating to me that I really didn't have high hopes for this one. I liked Piemur well enough in White Dragon, but I hadn't minded Jaxom in Dragonquest, so that might not mean anything.

But then I saw the cover.

I'm not talking about the current edition. The one you can buy at Barnes and Noble has this nice, dignified cover showing a large dragon, and a boy, and a pretty font. It's nice. Inoffensive, as long as we don't remember that this is a Harper Hall book and Piemur doesn't HAVE a dragon. But yeah, pretty.

No. I saw the version from when I was a kid. The version that looks like this:



...Okay, McCaffrey. There's no way that this book can live up to the awesomeness of that cover, but I'm ready to hear you out. So to speak.

( Jaxom could never be that cool and you know it )