I finally had time to read the conclusion to the story, and as many of the other reviewers stated, it improved from the beginning. Other than the character names and coupling (mostly), there was very little of the story taken from Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This story was quite original. The story begins with Elizabeth, ever the dragon friend, being separated from Pemberley (a separation which continues for the entire book to my utter sadness) and on a mission to find out about a rogue dragon on the Netherfield estate. Darcy is on a quest to find Wickham and Lydia who seem to have run off and may know more about dragons than had been believed. The book starts off slowly with Elizabeth and her dragon friends doing research and Darcy falling more in love with Elizabeth through her letters. About a third of the way into the story, it picks up, but the last two hours of the audiobook are tedium as the court produces sentence upon sentence. (I appreciate when everyone gets everything they deserve, but get to it already!)

A note about the characters. Although, barely in the story, Wickham and Lydia's ending is amusing and fitting. Jane and Bingley never surface, despite the fact that Elizabeth is at Netherfield for the majority of the book Fitzgerald had a complicated part of the story going from soldier to dragon slayer to dragon keeper to...well, read the story. In many ways, he is the glue of this story. And Darcy and Elizabeth - I'm so glad she actually recognized her own arrogance because she did something really stupid with potential to cause problems with a lot of people, not to mention a lot of dragons. In the first two books, we saw her insights solving impossible problems, but finally we got to see the consequence of her doing things her way at a time that she should have listened to others. Darcy had a right to be angry, not that he behaved perfectly, but she refused to listen to his explanation. Anyway, that particular dynamic was fascinating to me and the way they resolved it was actually reasonable, something else I'm not used to reading in romances.

Overall, I liked the world that Maria Grace built. It didn't need Jane Austen to be solid, although that was fun for a while. Also, I think the series title should have been Elizabeth Bennet's Dragons; that's much more accurate. The narration was perfect and the narrator is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from StoryOrigin and have reviewed it willingly. ( )

This has been such a fun series and I loved seeing how the author incorporated dragons into the world of Pride and Prejudice as well as all the different types of dragons and their personalities. It was also really fun getting to know all the characters and seeing how Elizabeth and Darcy bonded throughout the series. The epilogue at the end of this book was also really cute and I look forward to reading what else this author writes about this world as well as some of their other Pride and Prejudice based books. ( )

Spoilers are probably/most likely in this review.

I want back into this world. I wanna be with the dragons. Can’t I be with the dragons?

Mr. Bennet stayed the stubborn old man that is was without fully accepting how good Elizabeth was with dragons.

I couldn’t believe that Bennet came up with and got Longbourn to agree that Elizabeth would be a better ‘thing’ (for lack of a better word) then salt!! 💢

Well Collins didn’t get eaten. I’ll be dreaming that he did. I can still hope that he will be. ( )