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Just for the Summer
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Half human and half Wyr, Pia Giovanni has spent her whole life keeping a low profile, staying out of the ongoing conflict between her kind and the Dark Fae. Then she gets blackmailed into stealing a coin from the personal hoard of Dragos Cuelebre, the single most powerful and feared dragon shapeshifter among the Elder Races, and instead of killing the thief who dared cross him, he decides he wants to keep her. Dragon Bound opens Thea Harrison's Elder Races series with a premise that could easily tip into camp, and mostly avoids it through sheer commitment to its own internal mythology.
The scoring:
Sophie Eastlake narrates the entire Elder Races series, and this book asks a fairly specific thing of her: making a several-thousand-year-old dragon who has never had to learn manners feel genuinely, gradually softened by a relationship rather than magically reformed overnight. Listener reviews single out her handling of Dragos as nailing his "regal arrogance," and specifically praise a running comic bit involving a zip-loc bag request that lands harder because of her comic timing than it might on the page alone. The honest caveat, echoed across multiple reviews, is that Eastlake's male character voicing draws from a relatively narrow set of registers, meaning if you listen to the whole series back to back the differentiation between male leads across books can start to blur, a fair note if you are planning a full binge rather than a single listen.
Who this is for: paranormal romance readers who want a fully built supernatural hierarchy, dragons, fae, and other Elder Races bound by clear internal rules, and a possessive, alpha-driven central relationship.
Who this is not for: listeners planning to binge the entire series quickly; some reviewers note male character voicing becomes less distinct across a full back-to-back listen of multiple books.
Yes, it is the first book in Thea Harrison's Elder Races series, which continues across numerous sequels and companion novels.
The Wyr are shapeshifters, one of several supernatural races that make up the Elder Races alongside the Dark Fae and other groups, each with their own internal politics and hierarchy.
Yes, the Elder Races series is known for its dense mythology and hierarchy, drawing on author Thea Harrison's academic background in mythology and world religions.
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