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Menolly, a young lady, lives
in Half-Circle Sea Hold with her family. She was the apprentice
to the Half-Circle Sea Hold Harper…until he died. Her father,
Yanus, the Sea Holder, believes that women should not teach the
young children the traditional songs.
After the new Harper arrives,
and Menolly has been forbidden to participate in any kind of
music, she runs away. She cannot take the cruelty of her family
and her love for song is too much for her to suppress any longer.
While traveling, she runs across some fire lizards and stumbles
on the golden queen’s hatch, which is being threatened by
an unusually high tide.
After helping the little queen save the
eggs, Menolly impresses nine of the fire lizards. Now all she
has to do is make it to another Hold without being scored by
Thread and live there, away from her oppressing father and mother.
But as she is traveling, she gets caught in the middle of a threadfall…with
no place to go for safety.
Dragonsong is the first book of the
Harper Halls of Pern Trilogy. It takes place in the middle of
the Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy. There is a lot of tie-in to
the Dragonrider series, but it is not necessary to have read
these to enjoy this story. This is a story of a young woman who
has one love…music. She has a talent for playing and making
new music. But her father does not believe that this is a job
for a woman and makes her feel ashamed of her talent. After slicing
her hand open and realizing that she will never be allowed to
play or sing again while living in Half-Circle Sea Hold, she
runs away. Thus begins the new life on Menolly.
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