Dragongirl

Ever since Todd McCaffrey took over the writing of his mother's famous Dragonriders of Pern series, the books have gotten weaker and weaker.  This book seems to be more about multiple sexual relationships than about dragons and fighting thread.  I think Todd is planning to take the series more into the realm of people and how they interact and less into their relationships with their dragons.

In this book, young Fiona, queen rider, becomes the head of Telgar Weyr, at a time when the dragon numbers are at their lowest and the threat of thread at the highest.  It is up to her and her fellow weyrleaders to determine how they will manage to increase the dragon numbers in time to save the planet.  I think it is obvious that they will go back or forward into time to mature their young population to fighting age in the next book. 

I can't help it, I keep reading them even though they fail to satisfy.