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The Mystery of Ireta: Dinosaur Planet & Dinosaur Planet Survivors

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i thoroughly enjoyed the book. there were a few oh-hums but even they had important info to read. this is a good book to read for any dinosaur fan. got out a dinosaur dictionary to look up the animals that exist on the planet and even that was interesting to do. then in the second book is TOR a rock animal who flies, facinating and the nasty heavy-worlders from first book. you wonder if what the book tells you on how the dinosaurs got there could be true. read the book and enjoy.

This story may take place in the same universe as PERN but is as unaware of it as they would be of it. It may also be the future or alternate universe of Damia and the FT&T crowd, who knows if technology ever overtook ESP?

Primarily this is a space/planetary adventure complete with aliens and social commentary much like the original Star Trek (of which I am also a fan). If I tell you the plot I've said too much so trust this quick read to entertain and delight and it's a good read aloud story for the 7-13 crowd and a secret pleasure for the adults too.

I had previously read both of these titles as individual books; however having them combined into one is nice. I really enjoyed this series which leads into the Planet Pirates, great writer, with a good way of weaving you into the story and keeping your attention.

Anne McCaffrey is one of my favorite authors, but even that can't change the fact that I was greatly disappointed by this book.
If you've read the 'Freedom' series, or any of the chronologically first 'Pern' series, then you've read 'Ireta.' It's another rehash of the same old storyline- Beautiful, physically perfect people trapped on an alien planet. How will they ever survive? Probably in the same way all the characters in her previous books survived.
I was able to predict the ending with 100% accuracy from the first ten pages of the book, and though the last few chapters did take a turn for the better, it hardly made the previous several hundred pages worth all the time I devoted to them.
One never really comes to care about the characters- They aren't presented in an endearing way, otherwise, Ireta would have been a much better book to read.

I'm a dedicated McCaffrey fan, and had read the original "Dinasour Planet" years ago and hungered for a sequel. I found this book with both the first story and the sequel....SUCH a great read. Highly recommended. Different from her PERN series, but just as fascinating.

Seems as though this starts in the middle but I am trying to figure out why that is. Seriously, it's like there was no beginning...very weird

I enjoyed this book a great deal as the characters are well developed and I like having all the books together. I have been a fan of Anne McCaffrey for a number of years and have read and re-read most of her stories. I read the Dinosaur Planet years ago and now can have the whole series together and find out how it all ends.
I highly reccomend it for fantasy and Si-Fi readers!

This is an expanded look at one episode in the Planet Pirates novel and is a bit much if one has read the other.