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Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon

6 reviews

teatunesandtales's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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livlamentloathe's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Almost DNF’ed this one but then decided to sprint through it to find out the ending. What a waste of time. What was the fucking point of the aliens?? Kera trying to keep it a secret was bullshit nonsense. These girls have no braincells in their heads—they’re too full up on breeding.

Also you don’t need to be able to have kids to lead a fulfilling happy life. You are not a broken person if you’re unable to birth children. You are no less worthy of love.

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allingoodtime's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

It really tickled me that this pairing wasn’t about the alien and human khui resonating. Kira and Aehako were drawn to each other without that other element thrown into the mix. Of course, that’s what added to Kira’s fears of letting herself give in to the pull Aehako had over her. What if she let herself fall for this sweet and cheerful alien only to have him eventually resonate for someone else and leave her behind? Plus, Kira didn’t feel she could truly make Aehako happy and didn’t want to hold him back.

Aehako was having none of Kira’s nonsense. When Kira’s ear translater lets her know the other aliens, the ones who abducted the human women from Earth, are coming back to retrieve them she is determined to set out and stop those aliens once and for all. Aehako wouldn’t dream of letting the one he considers his mate, resonance or not, go into danger on her own so he (along with another alien and another human) set off to rid Kira of the translator and, hopefully, the bad buy aliens.

Kira isn’t meek, but she never really puts herself out there as the strong leader she could be. Georgie stepped into that role from the beginning. Yet, a lot of the humans look to Kira for strength. She just doesn’t realize it because she is much quieter and always a bit melancholy. (Aehako calls her Sad Eyes and it’s by turn the sweetest and most touching thing ever to me.) This adventure proves to Kira that she is much stronger than she knew. She is much more of a leader (and protector) than she knew. And she flourishes with these realizations.

I felt as though I got to know the other tribe members a bit better with this story. There is a lot more time spent with the others in this book and the different personalities are starting to be fleshed out. I’m starting to develop favorites and not-so-favorites. Things are happening during this story, sort of in the background, that I’m sure we’ll be touching on as the series goes along. The different pairings that are happening, what happened to Marlow, will we get a romance for any of the women aliens? I’m here for the ride.

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emfass's review

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

General small spoilers throughout so I'm just hiding the whole thing.

Things I loved:
-Big ol' optimistic cinnamon roll Aehako, and his solid and steady courting of Kira.
-Bone dildo pay-off from the previous book (though I kinda wish Kira had taken advantage of it earlier??).
-Going back to the Elder's Cave and taking advantage of the technology (AND SHOWERS) there.
-Tying up the bad aliens thread, because YEESH I did not like having that hanging over our heads.
-In all three books I've read so far, Ruby Dixon sets up the next book so well, making me very intrigued to read about the next couple without moving the focus to that actual relationship in somebody else's book. I think this is really well done.

Things I didn't like:
-The encounter with the bad aliens...I realize it had to happen because it was a loose thread from the first book, and I appreciated that it provided tension while also tying up quickly, but...it was almost too neat and quick?
-Why go through the trouble of this secret plug-in drive to try to hack the alien's ship if it just wasn't gonna work? Weird red herring/dead end plot point.
-Kira's khui eventually healing her body so she could be fertile, resonate with Aehako and be his "true" mate. Really don't like the message this sends to people who are, in fact, infertile. I kind of saw it coming but in the rest of the book, I liked the way Aehako was like, it doesn't matter, we're still gonna be mates.
-When Harlow disappears and Aehako assumes she abandoned them (there is no way she could survive?!) instead of the MUCH MORE OBVIOUS possiblity of "maybe something happened to her." And also Kira doesn't fight tooth and nail to go find her friend, she just goes along with it.

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ruthiedr89's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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bookeduparchivist's review

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

3.0

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