Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Dragonheart needs to be read with a strong pot of Klah close at hand. Todd has a morose way of infecting all his books with some kind of deadly plague. Every time Todd takes us to Pern, there is nothing new to discover,no move forward,no expansion of their world or characters and the hope filled themes that life on this planet will get better with time are gone with the change of authors. I caution the fans who have devoured Anne McCaffrey's books for decades that this book has not much in the way of exciting newly found information left by the 'ancients' that help anyone do anything to save the dragons and their riders in the prime of life from going between forever. The time line in this book almost sent me 'between' trying to keep track of WHEN I was and what was going on. The story doesn't GO anywhere! After slogging through the first 2/3rd's of the book you still feel like Todd has too many more books to write before this storyline that started in Dragon's Blood is over. Todd needs to go back and re-read his mother's earlier novels, they do and say much more in a short amount of time to involve the reader than his do in a multi-book series. I had figured out the disorientation of the new weyrlings as soon as it was mentioned in the story. Any dragonrider would. This between times travel has been hard on dragonriders since Lessa and Moreta did it way back in long past books. When Kitti Ping bioengineered the Dragons, they were a super lifeform,immune to sickness and affording their riders a long mostly disease free life.The Pernese people have a dominant spirit and will to live that is missing here. In the earlier books the diversity of the things they eat like wherrys (not chicken!),herdbeasts and runnerbeasts, tubers, etc. made it a fun planet to visit where there was always something new to delight the reader. Discovering new types of plants with ingenious ways of surviving the climates and conditions on Pern. Not ordinary spices with names that we can find at the local supermarket on Earth is what made going to Pern fun. The clothing they wear is earthbound, and rituals he writes of smack of too much of Earth religon for the Pernese society.He needs to read the Original Charter of the Pernese colonists... I have hope that when Todd writes more about Pern he will learn to cut to the chase,stop making these people so sickly and paranoid and not bore us 'BETWEEN' before anymore devoted fans go looking for other new worlds to conquer. Any true fan of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders books will be frustrated to read this newest addition to tale.I'd rather re-read one of the original books for the umpteenth time again, before trying this one ever again.