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Book #71: The Rowan, by Anne McCaffrey
Aug. 19th, 2016 06:15 pmA re-read, for the umpteenth time. I don't re-read McCaffrey often, because the books do not stand up very well, but I still like this one a lot. There are parts of it I don't love (basically every part involving Jeff Raven), but I love the Rowan herself rather extremely.
It's interesting, reading now, how young the Rowan is always coded. It almost feels like a YA novel, pacing-wise, except there's all these year jumps that put her into her late 20s. Possibly this is just my bias showing through, but still.
I did note a lot of things that are very much to my type specifically: Talents are never evil. They just aren't. No Talent, ever, was evil (this shifts a bit later on in the series, if memory serves, but still. Very me).
Anyway, I don't own the rest of the series (though I think the Pegasus books are somewhere in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lone_pyramid's basement), so I can't keep going (not that I have the time!), but I don't think I would have anyway. McCaffrey is a memory for me, but one I am quite reluctant to revisit.
(I would like to try the Space Selkie books again, though. Just because.)
It's interesting, reading now, how young the Rowan is always coded. It almost feels like a YA novel, pacing-wise, except there's all these year jumps that put her into her late 20s. Possibly this is just my bias showing through, but still.
I did note a lot of things that are very much to my type specifically: Talents are never evil. They just aren't. No Talent, ever, was evil (this shifts a bit later on in the series, if memory serves, but still. Very me).
Anyway, I don't own the rest of the series (though I think the Pegasus books are somewhere in
lone_pyramid's basement), so I can't keep going (not that I have the time!), but I don't think I would have anyway. McCaffrey is a memory for me, but one I am quite reluctant to revisit.(I would like to try the Space Selkie books again, though. Just because.)
