From back: After ten long Turns, Lessa is ready to come out of hiding, to reclaim her birthright ... and to Impress the young dragon queen and become Weyrwoman of Benden.
Suddenly the deadly silver Thread once again threatens all Pern with destruction. But the mighty telepathic dragons that had defended Pern for centuries are now few in number, not nearly enough to protect the planet in its hour of greatest peril. So Lessa hatches a daring and dangerous scheme: rally support from people who long go ceased to exist...

I see why this story is historical fantasy akin to reading Tolkien if you are a fantasy reader. How can you not fall in love with the stories of these dragons and their riders?

I love tiny Lessa with her stubborn and defiant ways. This is a character I would have loved as a teenager, and I know I would have loved these books then. It is too bad I did not discover them at that time. The romance part of the novel is a little lacking. I find that Ms. McCaffrey is not the best at writing romances. Certainly her later novels are better than her earlier ones.

I did not manage to read this book first as I thought Dragonsong was a first novel in its own trilogy not related to Pern. That is okay. I actually still had no idea what was really going on in this novel from Dragonsong, only from the excerpt on the back of the book.