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Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

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tostita's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-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? Yes

3.5

I adore Helen so much. Spending time with her was an absolute delight. Mathiras was harder to pass time with, particularly at the beginning of the book when he insisted on infantilizing Helen and really everyone else around him. He clearly thinks he is the only adult in his entire world and therefore should be in charge of everything, and that was pretty irritating. Fortunately he gets over it, mostly. The adventure aspects of the story really worked for me and were the most compelling part. The book could have been shorter, though. Fourteen hours is long for the amount that happened within the pages.

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kb33's review

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dark slow-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was the longest and my least favorite of the thirty-some books I've read by Dixon. I would have DNFed, but I wanted to know what happened to the slaves/slavers. I like long books, but I didn't like Helen's character at all. She's very "touch him and die" without any knowledge that she's doing something wrong. Most morally gray characters know it's wrong and they've made peace with it, but Helen has no idea that killing (described on page) multiple people is a problem on any level. Add that to the very repetitive talk about how "innocent and dangerous" she is, and I was bored (and a little creeped out). The spicy scenes were boring, too. Helen literally came after he touched her twice.

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alisoun's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective 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? No

3.75

Honestly I thought that Helen would drive me up the wall with how childish she was but then Ruby threw a spanner in the works and actually gave her some more depth!!!

Helen is a genetically engineered assassin???who has to deal with the emotions that come with murdering clones of her sister?

Im still not at all a fan of the "born sexy yesterday" trope from sci fi that Helen totally falls into.

Really Mathiras is the one who annoyed me. He was such a stress head! Who underestimated his gf! Both Helen and Matty are ppl I'm not attracted to lmao but it was still so much fun to read their bedroom scenes. Surely by now we are not that surprised by the spur so I was overjoyed we had some different genitalia from Helen! It's not that believable that she hadn't already masturbated in my opinion. I think that plays into the born sexy yesterday thing - Matty was the one who helped her discover her sexuality and I think it would have been stronger for Helen to discover herself!!! Maybe when they were hiding out in the previous three books and Matty just having to deal with it hahahaha

It's kind of gross (and logical as a sex slave clone) that she had a lot of clits all over her body! Nice addition to the alien sex we've been getting lmaoooo I'm really glad to get some more lady genitalia

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