6. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
7. The Pandora Room by Christopher Golden
The premise here is that a team of archaeologists excavating an abandoned underground city have discovered a secret room containing Pandora’s jar.
Initially everyone’s very excited at their discovery, but before long lots of nasty things start happening as evil stuff begins to seep out of the jar.
I wasn’t all that keen on it, but that’s maybe more down to my mood than the book.
8. Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsong and Dragonsinger were both rereads, part of McCaffrey’s Pern novels.
These two follow the story of Menolly, who’s about 15.
In the first book, she’s having a hard time at home. She loves music more than anything, but her parents believe that allowing a girl to play and compose music will disgrace their hold. It all culminates in Menolly running away from home and accidentally impressing 9 fire lizards.
In the second book, Menolly has just joined the Harper Hall as an apprentice - the only girl one - and is adjusting to life there.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading these. They’re more on the YA side of things, but a comforting reread of books where I know everything will turn out well in the end was just what I needed at the minute.
I’ve been finding it very hard to settle to new books for the last few weeks.