
Dragons of Pemberley
Jane Austen's Dragons, Book 10
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Narrated by:
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Benjamin Fife
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By:
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Maria Grace
Homecomings never live up to expectations.
After a visit to London that nearly cost her everything, Lady Elizabeth Darcy, Dragon Sage, desperately needs the solace of her country home, Pemberley. Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy, knight of the Pendragon Order and Keeper to Pemberley, counts the minutes until Pemerbley's walls protect his family once more.
Their homecoming cannot happen soon enough.
Pemberley and its substantial population of minor dragons welcomes them home with open arms. But those open arms contain more than happy dragons.
Unexpected problems plague the estate and surrounding county. Dragon-sized problems. Problems that might be too big for even the Dragon Sage.
A fresh new gaslamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen perfect for dragon lovers and Regency-era fans alike.
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Dragons of Pemberley starts with the Darcy’s returning to Pemberley after a memorable (and not always in good ways) Season in London. Accompanying them are Sir Richard Fitzwilliam, Lydia Bennet, Mrs Sharpe the new nursemaid for baby Anne Darcy, and Mr St John undersecretary of the order and known antagonist of Lizzy (see book 4, A Proper Introduction to Dragons for more details). And the accompanying dragon friends: the Darcys’ friends cockatrice Walker and fairy dragon April, Richard’s cockatrice Earl, Lydia’s fairy dragon Cosette, Anne’s tatzelwyrm May, and Mrs. Sharpe’s zaltys Mercy and Truth.
After the tumultuous season the Darcy’s are hoping to settle into the comfort, peace and quiet of Pemberley - but nothing is so simple when there’s the snapdragon poaching/smuggling group to contend with. An attack on Ring, a knucker who lives in Ring pond, is discovered and Ring is cared for faithfully by Lydia and Lizzy. But information from Ring and local historian dragon lesser cockatrix Raven alert the Darcys, Richard and Lydia to issues of attacks on dragons around the new moon dating as far back to when old Pemberley was in his decline and when Lord and Cownt Matlock became Order Chancellor!
Lizzy is furious - at the attacks on dragons, and most of all that Darcy and Richard kept this information from her.
Meanwhile Mr. St. John is trying to stir up trouble with talk of audits to Matlock and Pemberley keeps - starting with Matlock so no one else can say anything since the Chancellor received one also.
Lydia and Richard team up to investigate the apothecary lead obtained from Mr. Oakley (see end of book 8 Dragon Keepers Cotillion) - one they clear but the other definitely has dragon related items for sale.
Lizzy and Darcy work together to meet the dragons that Old Pemberley’s dementia forced into hiding and finally work out their issues. Family issues still plague as Kitty has a suitor and Darcy’s approval in Mr. Bennet’s stead is requested. A very tense and awkward dinner party at the Bingleys’ estate of Ingleside occurs. With the entire Pemberley party wishing they’d brought fairy dragon April and Cosette with them. Kitty’s suitor Mr. Mothman, nicknamed Buzby and is a school friend of Bingley’s used to be an apothecary but is planning on making a complete shop for ladies to combine linen drapers, haberdashery, and modiste and requests Darcy and Richard to invest in the business. Unsure is he can hear dragons but Mr. Mothman loans Lydia his handkerchief and she notes snapdragons on the border!
One of the Pemberley house dragons, puck Fern who is allowed to hoard discarded bits of paper, finds a paper with snapdragons on it from Mr. St. John’s fire!
Confrontation with St. John reveals he’s been working on the poachers/smugglers situation for almost 2 years after being approached about the body of his deceased friend drake Rottenstone. Putting differences aside for the time being they combine efforts.
More pressure from Ingleside regarding approval for Kitty and Mothman and unsure of Mothman’s role after discovering his handwriting on a note in a shack used for a drop point by the smugglers results in Ingleside residents (Jane, Bingley, Miss Bingley, Mrs. Bennet and Kitty) plus Mothman being invited for a visit at Pemberley to coincide with the new moon.
The visit is an unmitigated disaster: Kitty argues with Lizzy, May smells a strange dragon which Darcy later hears in his study when speaking with Mothman and culminating in Mrs. Bennet being bitten by Mercy and Truth after storming unannounced into the nursery and threatening the little dragons. The rest of the Ingleside residents are persuaded by the Pemberley dragons that they are ill and depart. But Mothman doesn’t continue onto Ingleside with them and stays “for business” at the inn in Lambton. the barn tatzelwyrms confirm strange dragon in the house and May confirms azure striped forest wyrm (like ones used to kidnap Lizzy - see Book 7 Dragons Beyond the Pale).
Night of the new moon and the larger minor dragons of Pemberley are set - using themselves as bait for the poachers. Darcy, Richard and St. John along with Walker and Earl divide between Ring where two men noted and Blackwoods a basilisk where discovered a team who have the azure forest wyrm with them.
Ends with Mothman captured by Richard at Ring Pond and Darcy and Walker aided by the guard drakes and Blackwoods herself in subduing or killing the team there including the azure wyrm Cobalt and discovered the ring leader is Mothman’s man Caney!
Lydia interviews Mothman the next morning and discovers most of his recent plans including his relationship with Kitty had been suggested by Caney/Cobalt. Mothman not part of dragon smuggling but obtaining goods from a “free tradesman”
Richard is to take the smugglers to Blue Order offices in London but requests to court Lydia upon his return.
Mr. St John meets with Pemberley and the Darcys and Cownt Matlock and Andrew, Richard’s brother and Matlock’s junior keeper to discuss matters in Derbyshire. Andrew finally brought to see reason about being a good dragon keeper (although very begrudgingly) or else Cownt Matlock will replace him with Richard or save the estate for Darcy’s “next whelp” - outing Lizzy as expecting!
Epilogue has the Darcys, Lydia and Richard relaxing the night before Richard to leave for London when Pax bursts in through the window and announces Georgiana is in terrible danger!
Loved the humor! Lydia especially is fun and has several great quips but also shows that her time at Mrs Fielding’s was much to her benefit. Love the cadre of Pemberley dragons we get to meet especially Ring. Mr. St John becomes slightly less odious but still irritating. And the epilogue is a fantastic lead in to Book 11 Miss Georgiana and the Dragon, coming soon for audiobook l, available in print now)
I swear this story gets better with each book!
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Action-packed story & great narration
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Oh yes!! That cliffhanger. Excuse me while I start listening to this story again right away.
Yikes! A cliffhanger!!
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Of course, there's more than the espionage and intrigue surrounding this smuggling ring! There's also an unexpected romance I didn't see coming but that works quite well! I'm excited to see how it will progress in later books, along with the drama of the splintered Bennet family, with dragon hearers keeping secrets from the non-hearing members and the wall this creates between them.
Just a warning to make sure you're prepared with the next book in your library, as this book ends on a cliffhanger and I, for one, need to know what happens next.
After finishing 10 books, I struggle to find new to say about Fife's narration that doesn't sound like empty praise. He's excellent, his range is superb as he needs to do normal human voices for a large cast, AND high-pitched and low-pitched voices for all the dragons, using pitch to give an idea of the dragon's size.
Dragon Society Continues to Pursue Smugglers
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I love Benjamin Fife's narration as always! you can tell he has fun with all the dragon voices, the accents, and his overall acting is top notch.
Parents- PG- middle grade and up read
Language: mild very little language, no f-bombs
Violence: none
Sexual Content- nothing to warn of- clean read
—I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Fantastic Narration of Lydia's Story
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Best One Yet
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