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My Review:Title: Barbarian's Rescue
Author: Ruby Dixon
Series: Ice Planet Barbarians #15
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: June 11, 2017
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
Length: 5 hours and 49 minutes
Genres: Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Spring
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My rating:
Blurb:Bad day? Try mine on for size.
Rogue slavers have landed on the ice planet and captured the tribe. The only ones not snatched? Me, a walking human motormouth with no skill except that of incoherent babbling, and Warrek, who's as silent as he is attractive. Two more unlikely people have never been paired together.
And now we're supposed to form a rescue team.
Saving the others is either going to bring us closer together - or drive us completely apart. I'm pretty sure the feelings I'm having for my alien companion are as unrequited as they are inappropriate, but since we aren't going to make it out alive, what harm is one teeny, tiny kiss?
Who knew that one kiss could change everything?
3.5 stars — This one had a pretty strong start, but lost some steam at the end for me… And I can’t even use this for any diversity stuff, because I don’t even know what ethnicity Summer actually is — I just know from a passing comment (and descriptions of her features) that she’s Asian. Yeah, no.
I actually really loved Summer initially. I kind of loved her babbly self, and how she was pretty smart, but she presented in an odd way. Certain tiny pieces reminded me of me, because I don’t think people would assume I’m that smart just based on the way I talk and stuff, but I’m not bad. So I connected with her. She was nervous and adorable and forthright, and I enjoyed her in general.
I really enjoyed Warrek at the start too! I loved how quiet and awkward he could be, and how he appreciated Summer when others would have overlooked her. He was strong and hardworking and just quietly awesome.
And they were cute together, especially for the first half of the book. I LOVED seeing them work together to figure out a way to rescue their friends, and how Warrek didn’t take over but truly listened to Summer’s ideas. It was just so nice.
I think that I expected the rescue to last longer, and I kind of lost some interest for the second half. They were still cute, but I was distracted by all the plot arc questions of what they were going to do about the cargo, and so it was hard to only get to read about the two of them mostly. The story just didn’t have the right balance I guess.
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