[Dragonflight and Dragonquest] form the single award-winning novel The Dragonriders of Pern. McCaffrey is a fine builder of alien or future worlds and nowhere does she do better than in this story of the culture of Pern, a world where a symbiotic relationship exists between men and the great flying dragons, and how that culture rises to the greatest challenge it has to face.

Lewis H. Wolkoff, "Science Fiction: 'Dragonflight' and 'Dragonquest'," in Best Sellers (copyright © 1975 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation), Vol. 35, No. 5, August, 1975, p. 148.

The blarney's as high as an elephant's eye in this corny Irish number [The Kilternan Legacy]. Irene, skipping New Jersey with her teenage twins before her ex can stop her, has gone off to Dublin to check out great-aunt Teasey's legacy, thereby leaving behind one donnybrook for another…. It's wholesome entertainment all the way; the only character it lacks is a dog named Benji.

"Paperbacks: 'The Kilternan Legacy'," in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the November 3, 1975, issue of Publishers Weekly by permission of the critic, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright © 1975 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 208, No. 18, November 3, 1975, p. 73.