Great idea, lags in the middle

Ruby Dixon writes great romances of characters with wildly different backgrounds and attitudes (and species). This is another good one but, after a pretty strong start, this lost momentum somewhere in the middle. I couldn’t warm to the FMC for some reason.

I’d read it, though, if you like shifters, dystopias, and a very decent amount of steam.

I was glad the male narrator only did a couple chapters — he just didn’t do it for me.

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can't stop listening

i'm loving the stort, the narrators are perfect, its the perfect story how someone can come together without the same language

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Great

What a joy to have a longer book from Ruby, than the IPB series which I thoroughly loved too. I really enjoyed my first foray into dragon shifters. Totally yummy. Very well narrated.

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Loved it

Loved this book, just the right about of lust mixed with a good storyline, and it was on the plus category, what’s not to love.

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LOVED!!!

i absolutely adore this book sm.
kael was so cutesy & the story as a whole was gripping, i didn’t wanna stop reading!

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Fun

Cute story with nice spice, a little excitement and good voice acting. Would listen again.

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Unusual but great

This was the first Ruby Dixon story I’ve listened to , but I will listen to more .
The narrators were well chosen and I feel that they suited the characters well.

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Interesting start to the series but...

As a devout follower of Ruby's Ice Planet Barbarians, I was expecting a bit more world building and background. There is quite a bit in this book but somehow it doesn't have the same pace and interest the IPB series has. The characters are well laid out and you get to know their motivations really well. The dystopian society that Ruby creates is also fascinating and we get to meet a few other players in their town that help to lay the foundation. I want to know more about where the Drakoni came from and why but I guess you gotta leave something for later in the series.

In the meantime though, the 3 stars were on account of the inconsistencies. Maybe because Ruby did such a bang up job of creating the most amazing Ice Planet and back story I'm not expecting inconsistencies, but a few of them are there and they do pull me out of the story sometimes. For example, how does he know some of her thoughts but not others? How is it they land in the midst of a barracks and soldiers don't swarm him the minute he turns human? Little bits kept jumping out to me as I listened. I guess I've been spoiled by the IPB series because once I'm in those books, I'm literally in that world and completely immersed. I didn't feel like that with this one.

Having said that, it is a good story. Claudia and Kyle did make be bark out the odd laugh here and there. And you do want Kyle to literally take a bite out of the Captain of the Guard and the Mayor because they are such turds (excuse the 6 yr old language!) The narrators do a great job of bringing it to life though I did chuckle and roll my eyes a bit when Kyle's voice had to repeat the madness mantra a few too many times in every which way he could think of. Points to him for making it different each time!

I will be buying the 2nd in the series because I'm sure I'll learn a lot more about this new Drakoni-Human world Ruby's creating and frankly, I'm ever so curious to find out more. I really want to know what happens to Sasha and if Amy ever grows a spine, or always had one that never had the opportunity to grow.

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7 people found this helpful

Well written story with steamy moments

I can't find a down in this book. Well developed characters, so good you understand the decisions they make. Yes from the outside you shout "No, don't run!" Or "Don't go back there!". But hello, we have more information than the characters do, so keeping in mind what you know they know and don't know it seems completely sane to me.
The heroine is sassy, strong willed and brave to a fault, but of course she is surviving foot to mouth day by day, and boy what a world to try and survive in. So when she finial realises how she could enjoy life and not survive, well she jumps right in and keeps running.
4.7 stars

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Okay

Narration was excellent but I found Claudia to be whi et and unable to make good decisions. The dystopian future was well drawn and the book was worth reading for that.

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