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Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

35 reviews

missbliss's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ice Barbarian Tarzan

This Harlow/Rukh pairing is interesting because in some ways it feels like a back step in terms of human/sakh relations. Ruhk is feral left alone since he was a child so does not have any sense of interpersonal relationship skills or communication. Through this perspective the audience learns more about the planet the humans call "Not-Hoth" and survival. The story is again steamy and compelling with more characters that are interesting and individual. The audience continues to get glimpses of little bits of Harlow's past as well as Rukh's and the narration continues to be great. As mentioned before my only gripe is that Hollie in trying to make voices distinct seems to struggle to match emotional inflection, interestingly she does this well for male voices just not the female voices. Mason is excellent as always. The spicy scenes continue to be very spicy and added to the repertoire of Ruby Dixon's variety of scenes pregnancy sex is added to the list. I also appreciate the glimpses of the rapidly changing community that is occurring since the arrival of the group of humans to the Sakh tribe. I continue to devour these audibles at a rapid pace and went to the author's website to follow the reading order and have been listening to the little short honeymoon stories after volume 1, 2, 3, and now 4. The collection of them are also available on audible called Ice Planet Honeymoon. After this volume the next in the reading order is Ice Planet Holiday before going into Barbarian's Prize. 

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emmer_reads's review

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

4.0


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lilalhreads's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes

3.0


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alisoun's review against another edition

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4.0


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mbasford's review

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

4.5


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issyfrp99's review

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emotional hopeful tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5


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parseltongueprince's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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bbygirl21's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

This is another great read in the Ice Planet Barbarians series.

This may be one of the sweetest couples in the series so far. They really go through everything together. They learn how to adapt together. Rukh adapting to having another person around after being alone for so long and Harlow adapting to her new surroundings and having to make a new home from scratch for her, Rukh, and their unborn child.

I love how protective Rukh is of Harlow going so far as to put his own beliefs about the tribe aside and trusting them as much as possible when Harlow needs him to. And I love how Harlow teaches him hiw to talk to her and everything about mating and resonance. 

The ending was great as well. I love that Rukh and Harlow finally get the family that they've always wanted.

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ashleybeereads's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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yaoipaddle's review against another edition

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emotional tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Ruby Dixon is not getting into heaven.

She refers to a newborn infant's genitals with the same descriptors and vocabulary as she does adult genitals during sex scenes.
Rukh mentions looking at his newborn son's 'cock' and seeing it also has a 'spur'
She makes circumcision jokes. She yet again has characters consider themselves failures for their bodies being unable to support a pregnancy. Also the offensive plot of soft human girl being taken by the 'savage barbarian' who she eventually makes civilized is... so awful.

It is not worth commenting on other aspects of the plot as the stuff above is reason enough to NEVER bother with this.

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