Corsairs: Mathiras by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Someone is illegally stealing humans from their home world and cloning them.

For months, we’ve been hunting this ring of criminals and the end is in sight. I’m separating from my brothers and taking my ship to track down the bad guys. One small problem—Helen insists upon joining me on this dangerous mission.

Helen herself is a clone, created to be an object of beauty. She’s not safe if she goes with me, as her kind are coveted all across the universe. But she’s not interested in staying safe. She’s interested in staying at my side . . . and tempting me to kiss her.

And kef me, is it ever a temptation.

Am I really going to run headlong into danger with the universe’s most beguiling female at my side? Am I going to be able to resist her charms?

Mathiras

Witless heroine!



The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 🤓😉
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Mathiras – he, along with his two brothers and their mates are corsairs. His little sister, whom is adopted and human is also a corsair on her own ship with her mate and crew. In the past, they teamed up with Lord Straik to retrieve a lost cargo vessel and found that it was full of illegal clones. Now they are going after the people behind the clones to try to shut down the whole operation.

The heroine: Helen – she, along with several human women were aboard that cargo vessel. Most of the women were stolen from Earth and had been luring other vessels in and robbing them after the aliens that took them left the vessel which had broken down and was drifting in space. However, Helen is actually an alien clone so she had a lot of blanks in her memories and was often a bit of an airhead. She is meek and has a huge crush on Mathiras.

The Story: Mathiras knows that this is one of their most dangerous missions, but the crews of the Starlit Gaze and the Little Sister think that it is best if they split up to follow different leads to the slavers. Mathiras wants Helen to stay where it is safe on Jerrod’s salvage station, but she insists on staying with him and going after the cloning operation. He had promised Helen before that he would never leave her behind, so she holds him to his promise.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Hollie Jackson and Mason Lloyd. They have done the narration on all of Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarian’s books and always do a terrific job. Hollie is great at doing different voices for different characters and has a perfect voice for ditzy Helen. I also love the way Mason speaks as these alien men, his cadence is perfect for them.

I like these Corsairs stories, since I am kind of over the whole abducted by aliens and ended up on a primitive planet kind of story. I love that they take place on spaceships, and space stations. They have a lot of action and adventure and usually have such terrific characters.

Helen was a bit of a whiny airhead at the start of this book, Mathiras was attracted to her because she was so beautiful and they were stuck in a small pod together for a while, but she was so innocent and ditzy. She was so naïve and clueless, which got on my nerves after a while. I can’t understand how an intelligent person can be attracted to such a dunce sometimes, but men do it all the time.

It turns out that Helen isn’t always as stupid as she sometimes seems though and is much more fierce that you would expect. Though I must say that I nearly DNF this one a few times. I kept stopping and starting the audiobook to watch instagram reels because I couldn’t take Helen being such an airhead. Hollie did a wonderful job on her voice, which would have been great as a side character, but as the main character I just couldn’t take it. I usually love Ruby Dixon but this one was hard for me. I saw some very good reviews and some people love Helen, so maybe it was the fact that Hollie did such a good job at the dingbat voice that it made her sound twice as much of an airhead than if you were just reading the book.

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