Dragon Harper (Dragonriders of Pern Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501217348 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. In this feverish crucible, friendship and love will be tested to the breaking point and beyond. But Lord Bemin mistrusts harpers and will not hear of a match between his daughter and the low-born Kindan.Then fate intervenes in the form of a virulent plague as fast-spreading as it is deadly. But the price of success may be even harder to bear.. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s defense, he winds up in a fight for his life against the older, bigger Vaxoram—a fight that will lead to
Plague on Pern K. M. Martin DRAGON HARPER stars apprentice harper Kindan. It begins with him standing up for the girl apprentices from bullying by an older apprentice Vaxoram. They fight a duel with the loser becoming a servant to the winner. Kindan wins and is determined to redeem Vaxoram. But events intervene.A new virulent plague is infesting all of Pern and threatens to kill everyone. The Dragonriders need to stay away from the infected Holds because Pern won't survive the next Threadfall without the Dragonriders. And it isn't long before the trusted elders at Harper. Kindan the young Harper apprentice is friends with Dragon Riders and miners and harpers. This is how he grew to be the best the sunglasslady19 Kindan was always in trouble because of his guestioning mind. At the same he was making friends with the very ones who appreciated his quests. The lead to unusual answers to things needing fixing. The master Harper supervised his training and allowed some leeway in the growth of Kindan. After all he was attached to a former green watch weyr, he was friends with Dragon Riders and Miners, and he had befriended the weaker apprentices at Harper hall.Kindan fights a duel to protect the girls of Harper hall from harassment. In winning the fight he b. "That being said I do like the characters and I got very invested in them" according to El. The first thing with the time knot books that Todd McCaffrey has written is that they are a tad confusing and difficult to get into. It is hard to tell how much of that is the time traveling concept and how much of that is the writing style of the author. That being said I do like the characters and I got very invested in them and their story. I also got the feeling that Todd was settling into his story and writing style a little better. These books only make sense if you read them all together so as a whole even though some books weren't my f
The danger this time is not the deadly Thread but a virulent disease, similar to our world's 1918 influenza epidemic or the more recent outbreaks of SARS. Then his education and budding romance with a lord's daughter are disrupted by the epidemic, which poses a particular threat to the dragons and dragonriders who will be needed to fight the approaching Thread. Kindan, a young apprentice of the Harpers' Guild who's dedicated to music, education and healing, had hoped to become a dragonrider, but failed to bond with a dragon at the last hatching. All rights reserved. The McCaffreys depict the crisis vividly, with enough detail to make the tragedy all too real and with enough hope to ke