I'm still kind of appalled that after everything Menolly went through, from escaping her awful life and surviving holdless, being bullied and belittled, to finally being recognised and having her talents nurtured and shared, that she wasn't named Masterharper of Pern after Robinton stepped down.
I get that women didn't traditionally have a good time of it on Pern, but the whole story of Menolly was that yes, women CAN be harpers, and walk the tables, even if it was a new and shocking concept to most people. So why, WHYYYY wasn't that carried on, and she could have been the first woman master harper to have been THE masterharper. That should have been the conclusion to her story and the beginnings of things being changed on Pern, just before AIVAS really did change things.
But no, she was simply the wife of the guy who became masterharper. It was dissapointing, to say the least.
