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Barbarian's Taming by Ruby Dixon

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emilycruz1016's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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ninahuynh's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I have mixed feelings about Maddie, but overall, she's the fierce older sister who won't sit back and take bullshit from anyone and I can dig that. Her self-victimization gets jaded over time, though. Hassen is just a lonely guy who wants to have companion. Doesn't excuse his actions in the previous book, though.

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kloughlin's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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bookameme's review

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

He’s a 10, but he kidnapped your sister.

Thoughts 💡
As far as I’m concerned Ruby can do no wrong and if you yuck my yum on this a little tiny part of my heart will hate you.
Now, like every good blue barbarian babe (on FB go check them out), I have favorite couples. Maddie & Hassan are somewhere in the top ten. Mostly because I love Maddie’s sass and Hassan’s redemption arc. I also really like that Maddie took on a bit of a teacher role in the furs.
They are one of the kinkiest couple’s on Not Hoth and their shenanigans continue through the whole series, but to truly understand them you have to go through the emotional trauma of this book. Because yes, as fun and lighthearted and smutty as Ruby is, she threw a big old wrench into the sunshine and rainbows of this frozen world.

✨Note✨interconnected standalone
✨✨ Also✨The audiobooks are in the audible plus catalog.
✨✨✨ And one more thing✨ Berkley is rocking these special edition covers, I freaking love them. And they’ve added some bonus content so if you haven’t read this one yet, you should go get it.

Stats📊
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Characters 💙💙💙💙💙
Alien Romance: monster love, plus size girl, FWB to something more, enemies to lovers, sassy FMC, himbo, grief📘
First Person, Past Tense, Dual POV
⚠️ Ngl, Ruby hurt us all with what happened in this one.

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katiekeske's review

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is probably one of my least favorite couples (I just find it hard to relate to people who want to be f*** buddies like Maddie was insistent on), but I still am glad to have read this one because around the half way point some major things happen to the tribe. If you care about continuity and overall plot with the tribe, you should read this one.

I have to say I really didn't like all the self fat shaming that Maddie did either.

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robinwritesallthethings's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What It’s About: Maddie finds herself falling for Hassen, but she has mixed feelings about it since he kidnapped her sister once. Then a disaster that affects the whole tribe changes everything.

Spice Level: Maddie and Hassen are super hot, and they get into it right away, even before they catch feelings.

Realism: This book really dives into the motivations behind actions, and how they can be good even if the action itself is bad. It actually made a lot of sense to me that these would get together, and I’m glad that they did!

Trope Alert: Enemies to lovers (if you squint at the beginning), friends with benefits.

Trigger Warnings: A big natural disaster, some death, and a lot of injury.

Final Thoughts: I’d been waiting for something big to happen because of all the dropped hints, but good grief, I hadn’t expected this! I was freaking out waiting to find out what happened to everyone!

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hellotheremaryrose's review

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I *loved* Maddie and Hassen. I saw Maddie getting some hate in other reviews, but I love that she seemed pretty realistic for a modern woman stuck in this situation. I loved Hassen’s sensitivity, and the overall theme of growing since past mistakes.
The spice was great in this one as well, I loved how much Maddie took the lead. There was also so much additional plot with the rest of the tribe and their planet, and I really enjoyed that!! Definitely one of my favorites in the series so far.

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lilalhreads's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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c0urtn3yy's review

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funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Eh; I said I was gonna quit after the last one but I read this one anyway. I'm getting bored - all the books are now the same with very minimal vadiations. & it's SO repetitive, even within itself not just across the series. & even though they setup a new storyline at the end, they didn't setup any new couples so it feels like a good place to stop. Overall I did like Hassan & Maddie's story though.

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bbygirl21's review

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challenging sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I really enjoyed this book. I think it may be my favorite one so far in the series.

I really loved Maddie and Hassen together and even felt bad for them both at times. I liked seeing their journey to finding love for each other despite Hassen's exile and Maddie having to sneak away from the tribe just to see him.

I really liked the ending and seeing Maddie's sister forgiving Hassen for kidnapping her and accepting Maddie and Hassen's relationship and welcoming him to their family. I love the bond that Maddie and Lila have as sisters and seeing it stick even while being truly separated for the first time in their life.

We also find out what was causing Maylak and Rokan's worries. So much happens in such a small amount of time and it's completely devastating for the tribe especially for a few individuals in the tribe. I can't wait to see how Stacy and Pashov deal with the aftermath of what happened as it's especially devastating for Stacy with happened toIPashov. And I'd love to see how Warrek fairs after losing the only family member he had left aside from the whole tribe. I can't wait to see how the whole tribe picks up the pieces and how they deal with everything that's happened.

Overall this was a really good book and I can't wait to continue the series.

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