Under the MoonLight Book Blog: Icehome

February 18, 2019 No comments

Veronica's Dragon

by Ruby Dixon

Series Icehome (#2)

Published by: Author

May 23rd, 2018

Genre: Sci-Fi Romance

Format: eBook

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Rating: 4 Stars

Resonance.

It’s a given on the ice planet, forced upon you by the parasitic symbiont called the ‘khui’. With resonance, a guy and a girl are paired up because they’ll make great babies. It’s a survival mechanism necessary for this sparsely-populated world we’re stranded on… and romantic, in a weird, alien way.

Everyone expects resonance to happen when twenty newcomers are dropped onto the frosty world. I doubt anyone expects the gorgeous, golden god named Ashtar to resonate to someone like me, though. He’s fierce. Flirty. Powerful. Disgustingly handsome.

I’m… not any of those things. I’m bland. Boring. Clumsy.

But resonance seems to think we’d be great together. And Ashtar does, too…

What can I say about this book? Well, Ruby Dixon is one of the best (IMO) when writing very alien aliens.

I loved Ashtar and Veronica so much. I have not read Dixon's Fireblood Dragon series yet so this is my first Dragon from her and I will definitely get my hands on that series asap.

This story is told paralleled to Lauren's Barbarian story, the first book of the series. From the moment they are rescued from the slavers' ship and before they get their "cooties" Ashtar is attracted to Veronica and he can't wait for the other's to let down their guard so he can steal her away and be free.

I loved this story and the characters. Veronica is a healer and I was glad to see a new element to these stories (although I haven't yet finished the IPB series so the sa-khui healer might have gotten a story too) and see how the healing is done.

I was very sad that Ashtar still didn't understand that he was truly free and that he didn't have to run away. That the other barbarians respect resonance and that Veronica just wanted to be with him. I did love how very protective of Veronica and how mad he got when she overtaxed herself. It was just plain adorable.

Ruby Dixon, in my opinion, is a master at creating "alieny" looking aliens that you can't help but love. I can't wait for the next story and to continue reading the IPB one.

December 08, 2018 No comments

Lauren’s Barbarian

by Ruby Dixon

Series: Icehome (#1)

Published by: Self-Published

October 20th, 2017

Genre: Sci-Fi Romance

Format: eBook

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Rating: 4 Stars

A lush, tropical island on an icy planet makes no sense.

Then again, not much makes sense anymore after waking up and finding myself not in bed but on a strange world populated by aliens. Since that moment, I’ve learned that nothing is normal anymore and I’ve got to roll with the punches. I can handle this, though. I’m strong and capable.

So… washed up on a tropical island? Got it handled.

Separated from the others in my group? Handled.

Stranded alone with a brutal but delicious alien man that can’t speak English but has great… ahem… body language? Yup, handled.

Add in the fact that my cootie – a symbiont I need to survive – has chosen my big, hulking alien friend as my fated mate? Let’s just say that the situation isn’t the only thing that’s going to be handled.

But it isn’t long before I learn that the tropical island paradise is a death trap and we’re all in grave danger, aliens and humans alike. To survive this, I'll need my tempting guy to give me a hand with the situation… good thing he's got four of them.

Since I discovered Ruby Dixon last year I have loved her books and this one is no exception. I never thought blue, horned and plated (or four armed or any other crazy way Dixon can think off) was going to be sexy, but boy does Dixon knows how to work it.

In this book, we go back to the Ice Planet where the Barbarians live. Now it is the turn of Lauren and her group of stranded humans (and some decidedly not humans). After the barbarians of the Ice Planet Barbarians (IPB) series save the group from the stasis pods they are in, Lauren and Marisol get into a bit of trouble and get separated from the group ending up in a tropical island.

K’thar and his fellow islanders are very different from the barbarians of the main island. They are divided into different groups. The Strong Arms who have four arms, the Tall Horns who have very big horns and the Shadowed Cats who have body/facial hair.

I loved this book so much. I think this story has much more flesh than the couple of books I’ve read in the IPB series. This book took me back to the beginning when Georgie and Vektal were trying to communicate. Although not as hilarious as that one it was still pretty funny.

I do recommend that if you haven’t finished reading the IPB series you do so because although this book is a stand-alone if you’ve started the IPB series you’ll be a little bit lost. That being said I cannot wait to read the next story in this new spinoff. In the meantime, I’ll be finishing the IPB series.

March 23, 2018 No comments

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