I thought the book was good, and different from the rest of the series.
Unlike the other stories there wasn't really an external force or an antagonist for our MCs to thwart.
There are characters like Dr Putnam, and Clarinda but they weren't the villains of the story and more instead the dealings with people who are selfish.

The main conflict of the story comes from Xavier not knowing much about shifters and in particular dragon shifters as he is the only known one. This made for a different kind of story but I still very much enjoyed the interpersonal conflict that it provided. Arabella and Xavier made a good team and once the initial shock of crash landing into his cave passes the two are always looking out for each other and trying to do what is best for the other, or at least what they think is best.