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Barbarian's Heart by Ruby Dixon
4.0
emotional hopeful slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: First person from both hero and heroine (alternating chapters)
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes, two months later
Format: audiobook checked out on Hoopla

Should I read in order?
Yes!

Basic plot:
Stacy and Pashov have a life together, a family. But when he loses his memory after a cave in they must get to know each other all over again.

Give this a try if you want:
- Science fiction romance
- Alien setting (book takes place on Not-Hoth)
- child in the story
- touch of second chance feel
- chef heroine
- amnesia
- medium to high steam – 4 full scenes in a shorter page count

My thoughts:
Overall I liked this one! When I found out it was amnesia and they already had a relationship started and a child I didn’t think I would like it much at all because those are some of my least favorite romance types. But I found this one pretty sweet.

I was getting a bit frustrated in the beginning how Pashov didn’t seem to care overmuch about trying to make things better with Stacy. He seemed...unconcerned? But to me this went against everything these men have shown on this planet as well as just the tribe culture. But it turned around and I started really loving their story.

Stacy is a bit of a weeper, but I liked the emotional pull of her struggle. It was getting rather angsty in the middle and I always appreciate that. And I do enjoy when the couple has to go off alone to bond better together (which has been a theme in most of these books!)

I enjoy the audio of these - Mason Lloyd is one of my favorites. And I like Holly Jackson for the female voices but I'll admit her alien hero voice is grating to me at this point. They are always a bit flat and monotone and expressionless.

Cock/Hero Stats:

- The men are 7 feet tall, horned, tailed and blue.
- They have 4 fingers instead of 5
- They have a pinky sized bony protrusion at the base of their cock called a ‘spur’ used for clit or anal stimulation depending on position.
- Their cocks are hairless with velvety skin and darker blue than their blue skin.
- They have ridges on their tongues and cock
- Before they resonate, their semen is thinner and not as apt for baby making


Content warnings:

- scenes of animal killing, eating, using
- hero was trapped in a cave in and has lost his memory



Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
 
Safe sex? 
No 
 
26% - 🔥some light lactation play, oral for her, missionary
65% - 🔥blow job
69% - 🔥kisses, oral for her
97% - 🔥missionary