The Renegades of Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, Book 10 (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread.
But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. And there were some, like Jayge's trader clan, who simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina's family, had lost their holds through injustice and cruelty. For all the holdless, life was a constant struggle for survival.
Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades, led by the Lady Thella. No one was safe from Thella's depredations, and now her quarry was Aramina, reputed to have a telepathic link with dragons. But when Thella mistakenly vented her rage on Jayge's family, she made a dangerous enemy. For Jayge was bent on revenge - and he would never let her have the girl who heard dragons!
Customer Reviews
Stage-setting book
This book is very well written, if not completely essential to the main storyline of the series. It is like a backstory to what is going on in the main plotline of the first 3 books (Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon). It does however, introduce us to various new characters, and lets us look at things from various non-dragonrider viewpoints. I liked it very much, and it sets the stage for the next book (chronologically) "All the Weyrs of Pern" with an exciting discovery.