• Lauren's Barbarian: A SciFi Alien Romance

  • Icehome Series, Book 1
  • By: Ruby Dixon
  • Narrated by: Felicity Munroe, Sean Crisden
  • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,008 ratings)

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Lauren's Barbarian: A SciFi Alien Romance

By: Ruby Dixon
Narrated by: Felicity Munroe,Sean Crisden
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Publisher's Summary

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.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Ruby Dixon (P)2018 Tantor

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God I love Ruby Dixon

Im not big on aliens, but I gave it a shot because I love Dixon's writing, and WOW. So glad I did. Her plots are solid, but still romance based, and full of developing characters. I can't believe she sold me on intergalactic space Smurfs, BUT HERE WE ARE, LOL.

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Story was awesome, less than impressed with narrators.

I really enjoyed this new spin off of the Ice Planet Barbarians even though I didn't like why there is this spin off. I don't like that Maddock's old crew was taken and killed off! However the new cast of characters are set up for some very interesting story lines.

Ruby Dixon, the author, has three series that are in Audible so that is the reasoning behind the three sets of narrators. I loved the narrators for the Ice Planet Barbarians, the but who did the male voices was awesome hands down. I completely hate how both narrators did the voices for the males in this book. They are made to sound slow whitted, the female voices where good though.

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I tried and tried again, but nope. Disappointed.

1. Repetitive. Basically a repeat from the Ice Barbarian series, dumb human females included. I only read the first book and less than half of the second before I gave up.
2. Lauren's character is actually smartly done; however, she should've left Marisol to fin for herself after so many attempts at hiding, especially when they're in the process of dismantling a space ship. I just can't get over these gals' lack of survival instincts and dumb choices.
3. I wish they would just tell us if Marisol has some kind of disability; she's a coward and childish. This behavior goes way beyond shy and introverted.
4. Super slow. Ms. Munroe leaves too much time between shifts in dialogue and the story itself is dragging. I'm an hour and a half in and I will not be finishing it. I'm just bored.
5. Why haven't we been introduced to the male lead yet? We're on chapter 4 for crying out loud.

Extraterrestrial romance sounds like a really cool concept; I can't help to think the author finds young women really this stupid. I'm not a young gal myself, but I can't imagine having 0 empathy or 0 common sense in regards to their situation. A little dramatic crying? Yes. Downright ignorance in all the women? No.
There has to be more to the characters personalities and life stories. Perhaps, if I continued to read Lauren's story, I might've learned more from her, but after 1 1/2 hours ...you lost me and now I don't give 2 shits about the story or the character.

Needless to say I won't be reading anymore from Ruby Dixon if her only portrayals of female leads are ignorance, blind arrogance, and self-sabotage. I just can't take anymore stupid female leads.

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Lauren and Kathar bring new blood and fresh plots

Especially since this was free to borrow as part of the Audible Escapes package, this was mostly a good expansion to the Ice Planet Barbarian series. This is book 1 of the offshoot Icehome series. I recommend at least reading the original book 1 (Ice Planet Barbarians) as it sets the main setting: human women crash on an alien planet, and encounter sexy blue aliens (Sakui). All beings must get a parasite (Kwee ... or as the humans say “cootie”) to survive. In turn, the kwee selects couples to resonate, or mate. Explicit and fun couplings ensue. There are 18 books on Audible for the original series, with my favorite two narrators.

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When yet another cargo ship with 16 human females and 4 other aliens ends up on the ice planet, the Sakui/human tribe resolves to ditch the ship in the ocean in order to avoid slavers finding them. This new series starts up at the beach as they prepare to scuttle the ship. Through a series of contrived plot points, two of the new humans, Lauren and Marisol, end up across the ocean on what I call Skyclaw island.

Turns out there are Sakui on Skyclaw Island. Much like the stretched plot of more humans getting stranded on Nothoth, and the addition of still more alien males that apparently are human compatible, this island contains Sakui variations.

Pros: listening just for the fun of it, I like the new Sakui variations, such as Kathar having four hands. I also like that these Sakui are a bit more macho, and less of the big, lovable lug vibe of the original tribe. Lauren was a smart, capable woman with a good sense of humor and positive outlook in her preposterous situation.

Cons: Marisol was way too annoying and whining. Thankfully, she’s relegated to a supporting character and largely in the background from chapter 5. The new narrators for this series, while not terrible, didn’t bring the series alive like the IPB narrators. The female narrator is very nasal and her male voices to me sound like high school jocks with colds. The male narrator is often robotic and monotone, yet bursts out to over acting at odd moments, and seems to be aiming to set the record for lowest, most gravelly voice for Kathar.

Biggest pet peeve: given the extensive number of prior books, the two new narrators should have listened to at least one full book. It’s jarring for them to mispronounce staples of the series, like how Kwee is mispronounced as “kooWHEE.” I imagine I would have liked this much better with the original narrators.

This is an 8 hour book that took the first 2 hours just to get Lauren onto the island for the initial meeting with Kathar. I recommend picking up at Chapter 5 if it drags too much for you. You will have lost nothing.

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A fun romance.

LAUREN’S BARBARIAN is my first novel by Ruby Dixon and I liked it from the start to end. It’s the first novel in a series so a little time was spent in the beginning setting up the world. It was interesting and funny so I didn’t find it too long.

Both the heroine (and other abductees) and the hero (and his race) are likeable and I enjoyed seeing how their characters developed with the added difficulty of a language barrier. Hearing the wonderful Sean Crisden narrate as the hero who at first completely misinterpreted the heroine’s actions was a total hoot that had me doubled over, laughing. At the same time, the story evolved into one of survival, trust and ultimately, love. I thought it was well done, and look forward to more stories in the series.

It was my first time hearing narrator Felicity Munroe and I appreciated her characterisations. She and Sean Crisden together created a pleasurable listening experience.

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Pretty good

Overall, it was a good story but the beginning as a little draggy. Still enjoyed the book nevertheless

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love the story but...

Ok so I love the ice planet series but I guess I have one complaint with the reading of it. call me bias but in the ice planet audio books the work Khui was said a diffrent way and that's how I've come to like it. The way the readers say it in this book almost sounds like they are calling it a coodie. It's driving me nuts and I find myself yelling at the reader "Its Kwii!!!!! not Khowii" lol. I know it's not a big deal but I mean we get used to stuff and it bugs me that's it's changed. I also didn't like how all the males in the beginning sound Russian or something. I miss the other male voices from the ice planet books. I think I'll stick to reading to books instead of listening for my own mental stability hahahah. But I love the story's and hope they never end.

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Repeative

I enjoyed the story a lot. However the characters repeated themselves to many times and it was exhausting!

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explicit sex, quirky

the sci find part is minimal.. put logic out the window.. story is basic macho Man meets competent woman.. then it's sex.. speedy love. I had to FF thru explicit sex scenes, a don't need that body part by body part description, but the concept of 2 very different folks and the 2 different points of view kept me listening. buy when on sale, not too much thinking involved.

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Great Story

I enjoyed it. I liked how the story evolved. There was great chemistry between the hero and heroine. I felt she was brave, confident and was no wilting flower. The author created a great characters. I enjoyed it.

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  • Enellyia
  • 04-03-18

Brilliant.

Was a little bit prejudice about the whole four armed alien thing, and had decided not to buy this book. but, I changed my mind and I'm so glad. I really enjoyed it. I loved the baby. I loved how the clans came together. And I loved the suspense of being on an island that could errupt at any moment.

Btw. I saw a review that mentioned Murdock's old crew being taken away and killed, but nothing like that happened in this book, so that confused me.

The narration was great. Overall, this is my favourite so far even though it is only a spin off from ice planet barbarians.

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  • Loves 2 Listen
  • 03-14-23

more than a spin off series

After listening to and thoroughly enjoying the ice planet barbarians series, it was a no brainer that this series would be high on my list of my next listen. while this series ice home is interconnected with the ice planet series, this is definitely not a spin off. It has all its own merits and the narration is every bit as good as the other books. I highly recommend any of Ruby's books, they all great.

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  • Netta
  • 11-03-21

Ice Planet

This is a great spinoff to her other series, however you do not need to start with that series to understand this one. It completely stands on its own, very well written and the duel narrative is excellent.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 04-07-19

Pure escapism

The story is out of its world and you enter a new realm. The characters are well defined and believeable. The narration is great and you feel like you are in the storyline.

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  • Imee-B
  • 03-21-18

***Omg Amazing***

I love you Ruby Dixon for not giving up on our blue barbarian babes and their human girls. This is another amazing beginning for a spin off series (is it) its just blows my mind how does Ruby comes up with this story lines from hehe but no matter i am grateful she does because i would sink into depression to see the series ends. The narrators are both excellent, Felicity can even portrays both males and females easily but I am.glad they have a Sean Crisden for the male characters, his voice is so deep and sexy *sighs*.

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  • Narny
  • 05-12-19

Not that great, don't waste your credit

i found there wasn't enough of an intro to the characters and how they got to the alien world. The middle was good but the ending was flat and unsatisfying and still to many details left out.

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  • Trubs
  • 03-06-23

I ❤️ Ruby's Ice planet series

this was a great start to another set of ice planet romances..
took me a minute to get used to the new Narrators but they did a great job..

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  • Avidchic reader
  • 12-27-22

the first in the series for me

well I was wondering how Ruby was going to intermingle this new series yet still keep the IPB boys ever present, it's answered here. if you don't know how lauren got this place. the answer is in book 14 of IPB.
now to this book. I get we have the cootie and I seriously don't mind for its an integral part of the plotline running through Ruby's books. without the whole lot wouldn't work.
but I thought lauren might have held out a bit longer. Crikey even Ellie and Lila waited.
I felt a little disjointed listening to this but I put it down to a new series. the new description of our new aliens is a little harder to dream 'alpha' than just our barbarian boys.
the communication agenda gives a little toehold to questions ehile the ending is kinda nice as old characters make an appearance.
I don't know about swamping myself again as I like action and some are to much about romance..so I'll be choosey methinks.
Felicity was fantastic and Sean..Omg, your voice had a bit more grit than what I've listened to, with you before. Your perfect. Mason Lloyd is terrific but your up there Sean.
still has the steamy scenes. A few old enemies appearing as more of a threat and some animosity makes it a little more angsty, but I enjoyed that I got answers to the storyline so I know where it's going. still a few questions out there so I'll keep looking for the books that lean toward action.

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  • Felicity
  • 10-05-20

Great Read

This book was very much a feel-good romance. This series does connect with the Ice Planet Barbarians series, however, it can be read as a standalone series. Each book in this series has different romances which I'm sure you could tell just by looking at the names of each of the books but this story concentrates more on the story between Lauren and K'thar. I have read only the first book in this series and the first book in the Ice Planet Barbarians but I found that I liked Ice Planet Barbarians more enjoyable because it definitely helped describe things more and while I'm sure Ruby Dixon meant to do that to show the lack of knowledge each character has, it definitely left the descriptions quite vague. If you are someone who likes these kinds of facts then I would definitely recommend Ice Planet Barbarians to be read first. However, this series does give you enough description to have a basic understanding of what is happening. If you have read the blurb and think you might like it, or have read Ruby Dixon's books before and find her writing enjoyable then I would definitely recommend this book to you. Enjoy!

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  • Anwar
  • 08-10-20

Entertaining

This Icehome story is about K'thar and Lauren. After being abducted by alien slavers Lauren awakens on the planet the locals call Icehome and it is freezing but the locals are friendly and even have some human female mates. But following a series of events some funny she finds herself stranded away from the community with Marisol another abductee and they are seperated and Lauren finds herself with K'thar a huge blue alien with four arms and the ability to camouflage himself and he is very attracted to Lauren and she finds herself falling for him. There are more challenges to face for the couple and some of it is quite amusing. I found the story quite enjoyable

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  • Kathleen Stevens
  • 01-07-20

Light reading

In all the book is not bad, I enjoyed the thought that love can be that intense. I am looking forward to reading book two. The male narrator's voice didn't match the character in my opinion.