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My Review:Title: Barbarian's Choice
Author: Ruby Dixon
Series: Ice Planet Barbarians #12
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
Length: 5 hours and 48 minutes
Genres: Science Fiction, Romance, Erotic Romance
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Spring
Find it: Goodreads
My rating:
Blurb:I might be the only unmated female in my tribe, but it doesn’t mean I’ve given my heart. I’m waiting. I want resonance, and I won’t settle for anything less.
But when an alien ship lands and a handsome stranger steps out, I know he’s the one. His name’s Mardok and he’s fascinatingly different – and distractingly appealing. But Mardok can’t stay on the ice planet, and he says he can take me with him.
Now, I must make a choice. Do I stay and lose my mate forever? Or do I follow him to the stars and leave behind everything I know?
4.5 stars — This was exactly what I needed after the emotional overload that was Ashe and Hemalo’s book. Not saying that there weren’t emotional moments in this one…but there was also a SHITTON of laughter, and I adored that.
Farli is just so naïve and innocent and just a ray of sunshine. I couldn’t stop delighting in her childlike wonder and brightness, and how she was fascinated by all the new things she was learning on the Lady. I don’t know how anyone could resist her, I really don’t. Basically, I have an epic girl crush. She was sweet, understanding, she felt so much…but she was also brave, and selfless, and epically curious. I also loved how uninhibited she was, probably b/c of the way she grew up in the tribe.
Mardok had good points and bad points. I definitely felt for him and all he went through, and the emotional scars that his time in war had left him with. He needed Farli’s goodness, he deserved it. BUT OMG! It took him FOREVER to figure out that his choice was the selfish one, and it didn’t make any sense in the long run! I get why he was initially hung up, but honestly, he should have figured it out wayyyyy sooner IMO. That’s why I’m rounding down instead of up.
They were fire together though. Their wildly different personalities complemented one another, and brought out the best in one another.
All in all, I can see myself listening to this one again. It just left me feeling good and happy.
Girl crushes are rare for me so I’m all sorts of excited to get to this one when I hit it in the series.