My review is broken into pieces following each individual story in the order I read them in. “Ever the Twain”: Interesting little story. I like Nian, but Neru was just kind of a blip of a character for me.
“Runner of Pern”: Actually really neat to get a look at an aspect of life on Pern that is vaguely mentioned but otherwise untouched by the overall narrative. I quite like Tenna. Her little romance with Haligon was rather obviously going go happen, but it was sweet.
“The Smallest Dragonboy”: I first read this story in sixth grade, I believe. It appeared in an English textbook. Pretty sure it was my introduction to Pern.
I’m honestly tired of the bully stories, especially ones where grievous bodily harm comes to the victim. This is one of those. And of course Keevan overcomes his injuries to Impress a bronze. Because of course he does.
“The Girl Who Heard Dragons”: Quite the little adventure. Nice to get a little more K’van.
Tom Kidd's artwork in this book is sketchy and completely in sepia tone. It works fairly well for the portraits, but a few of the landscapes just turned out muddy. Unfortunately the worst of these is the one of Heth running through the forest in "The Girl Who Heard Dragons."
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