Flor's Fiasco

Icehome, Book 17

De: Ruby Dixon

Narrado por: Sean Crisden, Felicity Munroe

I'm not supposed to resonate to him.

It's been a few years since I've landed here on Icehome Beach, and as resonance after resonance dwindled the list of bachelors, I knew who I'd end up with. As soon as we got past our differences, I'd end up as R'jaal's mate.

On an everyday excursion, however, my khui decides otherwise. It sings all right...but not to R'jaal. Instead, I resonate to I'rec—the forceful, brash, overly-alpha leader of Shadow Cat. Did I mention he's got a long-distance girlfriend already?

It's a big mess, and it's about to get messier.

But as things get chaotic on the beach and our way of life is threatened with upheaval, it's the small things that end up mattering. Small things like the way I'rec kisses. Or the way we seem to have a lot more in common than we thought. Or the way I'rec can be gentle, but only with me....

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Ruby Dixon (P)2024 Tantor

What? No man-bun on the cover art?

These growly, lovable aliens are my comfort food. I’rec is gruff and grumpy, but really just a teddy bear. And really, how could anyone be scared of an alien sporting a man-bun and calling gladiators ’tators’?

The first half was pretty standard for this series, with the conflict being that both Flor and I’rec thought they’d resonate with others. Flor’s insecurity about him leaving her once she’s knocked up goes on a bit longer than I’d like. Despite the growly nooky, the naughty parts weren’t anything that we haven’t heard over the last sixteen books. There’s a certain sameness to the sex and the stories … maybe that’s why these are like comfort food; mac-N-cheese may not be gourmet, but it makes me happy.

Luckily, the second half of the story tees up the next spin-off series, giving fresh humans, aliens, and a mystery plot about missing folks. The original series was Ice Planet Barbarians (first six books remain my favorites). This series spun directly off of that one and has some character crossover. The Corsairs and Risdaverse series leave the Not Hoth planet, but are still set in the same universe. The new series teed up here begins with R’Jaal’s Resonance. I liked that book even better than this one, in part because the earlier books in each series tend to have the best plots and couples.

WTF (Why Thwarting F*ursomes!)

Listen, I will never say a bad work against my gurl Ruby, but there was a real good opportunity for some hot group stuff and I would like to gently scold her for not taking advantage of it! Flor + Daisy could’ve absolutely made this happen those women are unstoppable, and everyone can still be straight for a lot of k*nky things sorry you know what this is better as a Reddit post than a review imma go….. 😂🥵😍

Cute Story

I loved their story. There personalities were so cute together and they were funny to me.

Yes queen!

I love Ruby and I can’t wait for more books, I’ve read all of her Ice Home novels! 💗

One of my new favorites.

How many is too many favorites in a series. This one is one of the fun ones of the series. Which is surprising considering Irek is a very serious character. He needed a lighthearted mate. I also loved that we have more characters to get more books for the future. I just finished Tia’s story and that one is also good, which also surprised me as she had a lot of growing up to do. But not to worry Ruby usually makes my least favorite characters and turns them into a good story.