Heart Stone by Elle Katharine White
This came in my January, Mother of Dragons, Lit-Cube. I assumed that the book we got that month would be a story of some kind about Danaerys from Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and would have been ok with that. When I looked at the card that detailed the items in the box, I was surprised (and ok, a little disappointed) to see that this book was actually a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, my favorite book. How they were going to tell the story with dragons, I didn't know, but having finished it just now, I can tell you that it worked.
There were name changes, though not too far off from Austen's original characters, for the most part. All the key points of the source material were there, though one sister, Kitty, in the original, is dead, having been killed by a gryphon. That, actually, is why the dragon riders are there: they are charged with ridding the land of gryphons. The mother wasn't as annoying as Austen's character, and, thankfully, we didn't see much of her. Also, the Lady Catherine character wasn't as bitchy, which I liked as well.
I am not going to go into this in terms of plot because, if you know anything about P&P, you can figure all of that out. Just know that this was well worth the time to read, and I wouldn't mind another in this vein.
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