The main character is a girl living in a sexist, pre-industrial society with a fairly rigid social system. While ostensibly about people on a faraway planet far in the future, it has much to say about Western culture and norms at the time it was written. It's technically science fiction, but is for all practical purposes fantasy. This is a prime example of a type of science fiction that I loved as a young adult. I would even pay for it again so long as there is a new narrator. Please please re-do this as a brilliance audio. I think this needs to be re-recorded and it would be magnificent. If you have never read the book I can imagine loosing interest before the end of the first chapter simply because of the narrative style.ĭo you think Dragonsong: Harper Hall Trilogy, Volume 1 needs a follow-up book? Why or why not? The sentences are read so slowly as to be painful. The poems in the beginning of each chapter are read without life. This really needs to be done with another narrator. How could the performance have been better? And reading it as a somewhat rebellious teen years ago, she was my ideal. She struggles with things that anyone can related to. She is strong and spirited and full of life. But as it was only my love of the story from when I was a little girl, that got me through the book. A better narrator would make this a wonderful tale. It such a disappointment since the story is so vibrate and full of life. It is like listening to an old grandma tell a story with the intention of putting you asleep. The narrator is so SLOW and languid in her tone of voice. This is certainly not the book to listen to in the morning during traffic, you'll fall asleep and crash. Well the story is still great, if you can stay awake for it.

I love this story and have read it dozens of times, so when I saw the audio book I thought why not.

What did you like best about Dragonsong: Harper Hall Trilogy, Volume 1? What did you like least?

Dragonsong by anne mccaffrey