Sohia Rose Reviews: Dragons at Land's End by Maria Grace

Today on the blog Sophia Rose Reviews: Dragons at Land's End by Maria Grace
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Dragons at Land’s End by Maria Grace

#14 Jane Austen’s Dragons

Gaslamp Fantasy

Publisher:  White Soup Press

Published:  6.14.24

Pages:  284

Rating: 5 stars

Format: ebook

Source: purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Synopsis:

The Blue Order and the Pendragon Accords kept England safe from the threat of dragon war since the days of Uther Pendragon and Dewi.

Until now.

Bad enough to face a dragon war, but to be the only man able to change its course? Frederick Wentworth faces the unthinkable.

Not what he signed on for when he accepted his title as baronet.

Sir Walter Elliot's arrival brings a different sort of war to Lyme when he demands his daughter Anne Wentworth resolve his latest crisis. But Anne and dragon Kellynch have far more serious matters to attend to as they discover yet another, unexpected battleground developing in the impending conflict.

Dragons behaving badly hardly describes the atrocities Anne discovers. Can Anne, Wentworth and Kellynch and their dragon Friends navigate a way through uncharted waters to avert a war that could devastate the entire kingdom?

A fresh new gas lamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen, a perfect mix for dragon lovers and regency-era fans alike.

 

Sophia Rose's Review:

The conflagration has arrived and valiant, but very human Captain Wentworth is placed at the center of three major dragons’ confrontation.  Maria Grace has written a series with a sensational cycle of mini climaxes while driving forward with dominant series plot threads.  Here we arrive again at just such a point and it was not disappointing.

 

Dragons at Land’s End is fourteenth in an interconnect Jane Austen’s Dragons Gaslamp fantasy series.  The previous book, Secrets in the Dragon Archives left off at a precipitous point.  Now, Wentworth is finally given his marching orders by the Blue Order Dragon Council.  He will be second to Cownt Matlock the fire dragon who will be going to Land’s End to confront a spoilt princely dragon, Cornwall, overstepping and grasping at more power than is his to have.  Wentworth does not expect to survive a dual of fire dragons.  Back at Kellynch-by-the-Sea, Anne is forced to face down the arrival of her grasping, oblivious father and older sister, figure out how to keep Kellynch on the road to recover after his battle in Lyme bay, sort out a wild wyrm issue, and deal with a Blue Order rep who doesn’t respect her authority because she’s a woman.  And, then things get more complicated.

 

The threat and tension were high in this one.  Anne and Wentworth were working separately for most of the book and dealing with heavy matters involving many dragons.  The dragon world Maria Grace created and augments in each installment is fascinating as can be especially when human and dragon interactions are involved.  I’ve enjoyed this husband and wife partnership and how they face each new struggle and conflict.  They are apart, but still working as a team.  There were hints of big troubles going on with the Dragon Sage, Elizabeth Darcy, but also several unusual incidents around the kingdom that need investigating.  But, above all, there is coming a challenge to the dragon throne, and I can hardly wait for all that is coming next.

 

Regency era manners mixed with a carefully crafted dragon fantasy world in this well-established series that I highly recommend.

 

 

Author Bio:

Six time BRAG Medallion Honoree, #1 Best-selling Historical Fantasy author Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. None of which have anything to do with her undergraduate studies in economics/sociology/managerial studies/behavior sciences. She pretends to be a mild-mannered writer/cat-lady, but most of her vacations require helmets and waivers or historical costumes, usually not at the same time.

She stumbled into Jane Austen fan-dom in the mid '90s with Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility film, having somehow graduated HS without ever having read Austen. It was only a short leap then to consume all of Austen's works, in all their various media forms. In the hopes of discovering more works by Austen, she stumbled into the fan fiction forums, which naturally led to asking 'What if...' herself. Twenty nine books later, she still asks that question.

She writes gaslamp fantasy, historical romance and non-fiction to help justify her research addiction.

Website:  http://www.randombitsoffascination.com/

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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