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Stranded (Mates for the Raskarrans, #1)
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This book left me feeling….conflicted.
For starters, this is ice planet barbarians lol like there are differences, but come on. this is IPB in a different font. Instead of blue guys it’s green guys. Instead of snowy landscape it’s a rain forest. Instead of a cootie it’s fated dream mates.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll eat that shit up. I love me some IPB and I already finished that series so I was 100% down to start nearly the same book with a slightly different plot lmao like even down to the type of couple, we got the chief of his tribe, Gregar (aka Vektal) and the unofficial leader of the abandoned human women, Liv (aka Georgie).
Now I thought the writing was good. Interesting reasoning to get the 12 human women into a spaceship and eventual escape pod that crashes on the alien planet. I felt this had good potential as a whole.
My biggest issue, and the major thing holding me back from wanting to continue this series, is the lack of being able to communicate! Yeah fine, they can talk when they’re dreaming, but when they’re awake? Nothing. They’re forced to pantomime everything to each other. We’re told they’ll “eventually” be able to communicate while awake as well, but they don’t get to that point in this book.
And because of that it just left me wanting more. The irl spicy scenes felt lacking because there wasn’t really any talking between them (they were also fairly short too, like come on you KNOW why I’m picking up this kind of book, we need some hot af spicy scenes). Like even the IPB virgins had some dirty talking during 😮💨 but because of the language barrier we didn’t get much of anything from the irl scenes.
There were some actual moments of dirty talk in the dream scenes, but they were also fairly short. Spicy books have ruined me if I’m complaining about a 1-2 page spicy scene being short but oh well 🤣🤣
I felt like, overall, I can see this being a good and fun romance series. But I really don’t know if I want to read 6 more books where the main couple can only communicate half the time. I’m tempted to check out a later book next just to see if they all eventually learn each others languages without the whole “dream mating” thing just so I know there isn’t an issue with communication in the future.
For starters, this is ice planet barbarians lol like there are differences, but come on. this is IPB in a different font. Instead of blue guys it’s green guys. Instead of snowy landscape it’s a rain forest. Instead of a cootie it’s fated dream mates.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll eat that shit up. I love me some IPB and I already finished that series so I was 100% down to start nearly the same book with a slightly different plot lmao like even down to the type of couple, we got the chief of his tribe, Gregar (aka Vektal) and the unofficial leader of the abandoned human women, Liv (aka Georgie).
Now I thought the writing was good. Interesting reasoning to get the 12 human women into a spaceship and eventual escape pod that crashes on the alien planet. I felt this had good potential as a whole.
My biggest issue, and the major thing holding me back from wanting to continue this series, is the lack of being able to communicate! Yeah fine, they can talk when they’re dreaming, but when they’re awake? Nothing. They’re forced to pantomime everything to each other. We’re told they’ll “eventually” be able to communicate while awake as well, but they don’t get to that point in this book.
And because of that it just left me wanting more. The irl spicy scenes felt lacking because there wasn’t really any talking between them (they were also fairly short too, like come on you KNOW why I’m picking up this kind of book, we need some hot af spicy scenes). Like even the IPB virgins had some dirty talking during 😮💨 but because of the language barrier we didn’t get much of anything from the irl scenes.
There were some actual moments of dirty talk in the dream scenes, but they were also fairly short. Spicy books have ruined me if I’m complaining about a 1-2 page spicy scene being short but oh well 🤣🤣
I felt like, overall, I can see this being a good and fun romance series. But I really don’t know if I want to read 6 more books where the main couple can only communicate half the time. I’m tempted to check out a later book next just to see if they all eventually learn each others languages without the whole “dream mating” thing just so I know there isn’t an issue with communication in the future.
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