Saturday, January 20, 2024

Barbarian's Mate (Ice Planet Barbarians #6) by Ruby Dixon

Barbarian's Mate by Ruby Dixon
My Rating: ★★★★

Josie couldn’t wait to find a way to remove her IUD and finally resonate with someone. Sure, she has her preferences, but she’s down to resonate with most of the eligible bachelors. When her khui finally pushes out her IUD, Josie is ecstatic. Now she can finally resonate with someone and start a happy family of her own. Unfortunately for Josie, her khui has selected Haeden as her life mate. The same Haeden who has been nothing but a negative presence in her life from the moment he set his eyes on her.

Josie and Haeden have pretty sad backstories, so prepare yourself for parental abandonment, parental death, and rape. Thankfully, there weren’t any flashbacks, but Josie does talk about what happened to her and how she’s dealt with old and new traumas. Someone needs to get a therapist on this ice planet because damn. I think that a lot of the characters need a therapist for different reasons in this series, so maybe a few therapists need to appear out of the woods!

I absolutely loved this book from start to finish. Josie is now one of my favorite characters in the series. She was truly a delight to follow and was relatable on so many levels. I knew that Josie would eventually end up with Haeden because all the signs were there, and their story did not disappoint!  Their chemistry is also off the charts. I was sad to reach the end of the book because they were truly on fire, even when they were at odds with each other and learning to communicate with one another properly.

The humor was back in this book, which is extremely exciting. I really missed having so many laugh out loud moments through the chapters! I also liked how much world building we get again. We got to learn new things about this world as well as get a little more insight to the things that had been happening before Josie and company were dumped there. I also really liked getting to know some of the other characters in different ways through Josie and Haeden’s interactions with them. There were some interesting things revealed in this book, so I’m excited to see where that will lead us next.

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