This is a review of Dragon Fate by James D. Horton. This is the third and final book in the Elise Ddraig Dragon Chosen series. I did have a couple of small issues with this book which I will get to in a moment.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, Elise Ddraig is a female dragon shifter of the Gold Dragon clan. She has also lived a past life and has been reincarnated. Skip forward to the present day and Elise has been magically aged from 3 to 18. She is now 20 years old in this book. Elise is the only female dragon that can shift. In the world the author has created only male dragons can shift. The only reason Elise can shift is because she is the Chosen One. She is the one that is supposed to battle the chosen Agent of Chaos. If she wins she saves magic in the world, if she loses the battle all the magic in the world dies.
Very early in the book Elise comes home to her apartment after a hard night of patrolling and her boyfriend Lou has a romantic dinner waiting for her. Lou was Elise's husband before her death and reincarnation. Elise feels that she can't conform to Lou's memories of her because even though she is still Elise she feels that she is not the same Elise that Lou remembers. They have a huge fight over this and Elise storms out of the apartment. She walks for a while until she comes upon a gas station where she goes in to purchase food. While in the gas station she meets a male dragon shifter in this book that she is instantly attracted to. He introduces himself as Matthew. It doesn't take Elise long to realize who Matthew really is.
It is revealed a short while later in the book that Matthew's name is actually Matteas and he is actually the Agent of Chaos that Elise is supposed to battle. Elise and Matthew/Matteas have several more meetings before their final battle. In one of these meetings Elise and Matthew are shown 2 different futures. One of these futures will be what happens if Elise wins the battle. The other is what will be if Matthew wins the final battle. Neither future is a good one.
There is also a side story going on with Rose and Rory, Elise's werewolf friends where it is revealed that Matthew is one of the villains where he is working with a vampire trying to build an army of super shifter soldiers using specimens harvested from shifters. The army is under Matthew's command. Elise is distracted by a trap that Matthew has set for them where they learn of the army Matthew is amassing. This distraction causes Matthew to be able to attempt to destroy the magic of the island of Afalon. He does not succeed in destroying the magic of Afalon because Remy(Elise's mentor and the Chosen One of his time) takes the magic into himself binding himself to Afalon as the new Lord of Afalon. Elise is on Afalon and realizes it was a distraction technique. She goes to the werewolves and manages to gain their support to take into the final battle with Matthew. The final battle takes place with Matthew at the palace of the Gold Dragon Clan. There are multiple battles with the different players going on in this battle that are all equally important. Elise realizes that their must be another way besides either her winning or Matthew winning the final battle. She realizes that the love that she and Matthew have for each other is the only way. After doing a bit of magic, Elise convinces Matthew of the same. The two decide not to battle each other and unite against the real evil that they are actually battling who turns out to be the evil siblings of Archer, (Elise's father and king of the Gold Dragons). Elise and Matthew end up together in the end. They are also shown a new future of what will be because of the choice they made to be together instead of battling the other. They are shown a world where humans and shifters are living together in perfect harmony and then we see how this future comes to be.
There is a lot more that happens in this story but these are the highlights.
I will say that the book is well written for the most part. I did have a couple of issues with the story. The first issue is that we never really find out Lou's fate. Did they kill him? Were they able to save him? If they weren't able to save him, what happened to him? If they did save him, what happened to him? These are questions that are unanswered. In order to find out what I am talking about you will just have to read this one. The second issue I had with this book was Matthew/Matteas was revealed to be Elise's half-brother. Incestous relationships between blood relatives is just something that I don't care to read about. There is just an ick factor there for me. I don't know if this is something that the author has rectified in the updated version he has released as I have not read the updated version.
Once again, I recieved this book as an advanced reader copy from RomanceARCade so this is a review of that version and not the updated version that the author has recently published on Amazon.
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