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My Review:Title: Barbarian's Tease
Author: Ruby Dixon
Series: Ice Planet Barbarians #16
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Hollie Jackson, Mason Lloyd
Length: 6 hours and 18 minutes
Genres: Romance, Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Summer
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My rating:
Blurb:It should have been a one-night stand.
I never intended to seduce Taushen, but things happened. I don't dwell on the past and while it was great, I'm not looking for a relationship. Of course, try telling that to Taushen. The big blue alien's in love after one night, and it's making things darn awkward. We've got bigger problems than whether or not I'm his woman, like the ‘cargo’ of the space ship that landed here.
But Taushen's not giving up. He thinks I'm his mate.
And he'll do anything to keep me.
3 stars — I was NOT a fan of Brooke. I was bummed that we finally got Taushen’s story, and he ended up with Brooke. Which is not to say that she’s horrible, but she had a lot of horrible human moments in this book, and it wasn’t the love story I wanted for Taushen. In the end I enjoyed their connection, their friendship, their chemistry…but I wish he didn’t have to go through her games to get to that point.
Brooke exhibited so many traits I generally dislike from my own gender. She was manipulative, she played human dating games with Taushen, she just basically lacked empathy and communication skills. It should have been obvious that these big blue dudes have ZERO clue about human courtship rituals. And maybe not at first, but it’s like she never learned…she kept going as though he would understand her coy hair flips and whatnot. I mean seriously…I hate games in regular human relationships/romances, but this was just cruel. It really is hard to like someone who is so oblivious to how she is affecting others, how they are feeling, and really thinking of things only from her own perspective.
Basically, I was mega disappointed in this one. It wasn’t without great moments, don’t get me wrong. But it wasn’t enough IMO.
Taushen was sweet, eager, lonely but determined. He’d been through a lot. And he got toyed with. Barbarian’s Tease is the perfect title for this book.
So what did I like? When they went on “vacation” and we got a montage of them becoming friends and really connecting. The actual literal games they played (like eye spy). The steamy moments were pretty solid. And the end with all the new peeps that leads to a new spin off series, it has me very excited to move on to that.
In fact, I’m kind of torn whether I should just finish this one, or what the reading order is supposed to be. I think the remaining books in this series go back in time??? I don’t know. I guess we’ll find out.
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