If you can remember back to the second book in the series, our heroine Menolly makes friends with the precocious Piemure, who not only befriends her, but assists in the feeding of her nine fire lizards. Piemure is gifted with a beautiful soprano voice and the is currently rehearsing his role as the Dragonwoman Lessa in a new performance. Unfortunately our little scamps voice breaks and he is sent to the drum towers until his voice settles. Piemure's mischievousness proceeds him, and the older apprentices haze him to an unfair degree. To compound this problem, Menolly, Sebell and Masterharper Robinton decide to use him as their special apprentice. Piemure travels with the two journeymen to various holds and sees first hand the havoc the Oldtimers, and the not so wonderful Lord Holder Meron can cause. Eventually Piemure's fellow apprentices play a trick that goes to far and results in Piemure in the infirmary with a head injury. This convinces Masterharper Robinton to pull him from the drum heights and make him exclusively his apprentice until his voice settles. Piemure is sent with Sebell to a gather (which is like a festival or fair) at the hold of Lord Meron, who is deathly ill, yet refuses to name a successor. They also learn that the hold has an unusual number of fire lizards given out to pretty much everybody. After discovering that most of the dragon lizards are the lesser greens, and the Lord Meron is secretly trading with the contentious Oldtimers, Piemure steals a queen fire lizard egg and hides in a shipment going to the Southern Continent. Piemure ends up on the Southern Continent and hides until his egg hatches and he impresses the little queen Farli. He also "adopts" an orphaned runner beast that he names Stupid. Menolly and Sebell meanwhile have had a quiet and subdue almost romance through out the book, which culminates in one of the bestest, most simplest, most tender, most perfect declerations of love ever! This all happens while they search for Piemure. Eventually everybody finds each other and Piemure is made a drum journeyman of the Southern Continent.
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Like the other two books, this one is a simple story compared to the more complex world of the main series. This book however is easier to read if you have at least read the first two books in the original Dragonrider series. This book also puts Menolly, who was the main character in the first two books into a secondary role. As for my personal feelings on this book, they are mixed. On one hand I miss having Menolly be the main character and I miss the more micro story telling of the first two books. I do however like seeing some of the other holds and halls, and having Piemure travel around lets us see a lot more then we have in previous books. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the romance between Menolly and Sebell. It is so natural and understated. None of this giant declarations, or misunderstandings, or love triangles. It is just basic love between two quiet, yet passionate people. I really can't give you specifics on what get's to me so much about these two, but they are in my top 10 of literary couples. I think it may be because it seems so real and not EPIC and STAR FATED, it just is. I also like that the love story is just a subtle simple fraction of the whole story. I was sad to see this trilogy end and always am a bit biased against this book for being the last one, but in the end it is just as good as the first two and the trilogy as a whole will forever be a favorite of mine. I give this book 8 out of 10 bubbly pies.
What love story do you love the best? Should a trilogy/series stick with the same main characters or branch out? Will I ever find a new love like this trilogy?
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