Barbarian Lover

Rating: 4.1 leaves out of 5
Characters: 4/5
Cover: 3/5
Story: 5/5
Writing: 4.5/5
Genre: Fantasy/Aliens/Romance
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: Yeah

I think this is by far the best one in the series I have read. Kira's story was had me kind of broken and towards the end had me pretty scared. It was a really touching story that was a lot more focus on bonding.

ok ok after DNFing book #2 I decided to try this one bc I still think the goofy-ass worldbuilding is fun but I just couldn't deal with the enemies to lovers of it all and ummm we're BACK hehe

and honestly I can't really explain why bc this whole premise is full of stuff I don't normally enjoy (“fated mates”, pregnancy, etc) but idk when you're on an ice planet the rules don't apply. (I think it probably does go back to the podcast discussion we had about the first book, about it being like kind of an anticapitalist fantasy where you don't have to work or make decisions you just like, vibe in a cave? which obviously is not a life I would CHOOSE but umm it's fun to read about I guess?)

Also the whole time Kira was like "oh no I'm infertile" I was like babe obviously your space parasite will heal you and I was a little surprised literally no one mentioned that but also it was nice that her alien bf accepted her even when he thought she was infertile. Also I appreciated but also LOL'd at Ruby Dixon's author's note about how she was wary about magically curing infertility so she carefully researched to find a condition to give Kira that could reasonably be cured. By the alien parasite!!! lol incredibleeeeee

anyway I took this to a beach house and read the whole thing in one day sooooo....yeah