Dragondrums
Harper Hall of Pern • Book 3
Narrated by Sally Darling
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Piemur loses his voice and finds something better — and Sally Darling makes every drumbeat feel earned.
- Great if you want: coming-of-age fantasy with a scrappy, likable protagonist
- Listening experience: brisk and adventurous — lighter tone than the main Pern books
- Narration: Darling captures Piemur's mischief and vulnerability with warmth
- Skip if: you haven't read the earlier Harper Hall books
About This Audiobook
Piemur's exceptional voice was his greatest asset at Harper Hall, but his changing voice has taken that gift and left him without his role in the institution he has built his life around. Reassigned to the message drums while he waits to discover what he will become, Piemur is drawn into Masterharper Robinton's network of quiet information-gathering and sent on errands that lead him deeper into Pern's political tensions than he expected. The third Harper Hall novel by Anne McCaffrey follows the coming of age of a different kind of Harper, one who works in secrets and service rather than song.
Sally Darling has narrated all three Harper Hall novels, and her performance gives Piemur's mischievous energy and growing seriousness a consistent and convincing arc. The Pern world's distinctive texture, its weyrholders and holders and the constant threat of Threadfall, is rendered with the familiarity of a narrator who has lived in the world across the trilogy. At just under nine hours, Dragondrums completes one of science fiction's most beloved young adult series.
