Prison Planet Barbarian by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Being kidnapped by aliens is one thing.

Being kidnapped by aliens and then sent to a prison planet is something infinitely worse.

Here in Haven’s prison system, I’m stranded among strangers, enemies, and the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy. There’s no safety for a human woman here, especially not one branded as a murderer. I’m doomed to a fate worse than death. 
Then…he decides I should be his. His name’s Jutari. He’s seven feet tall, blue, and horned. He’s an assassin and one of the most dangerous prisoners here. He’s like no one I’ve ever met before…and he might be my only chance.

This story stands completely alone and is only marginally connected to the Ice Planet Barbariansor Corsairs series. You do not need to read those books in order to follow this one.

Prison Planet Barbarian

Messakah assassin!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤❤️💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 🤨😟😳😍🥰

The heroine: Chloe – she was a college student who was stolen from her dorm room one night, by alien sex traffickers. She was taken to another planet, put up for auction and sold to an ambassador from a race called the Tritarians. When he tries to rape her, she kills him and due to a domino effect, ends up killing a bunch of their ambassadors and is sent to Haven, the prison planet for the worst criminals in the galaxy.

The Heroes: Jutari – he is a Messakah and an assassin. Before that he was a soldier till the war ended and when he couldn’t find a job, he became a mercenary and eventually took on darker and more dangerous jobs. When his father, (who was an awesome space pirate) died, Jutari became very depressed and didn’t care about anything. That is when he was caught and sent to Haven. He has been there about a year and at one point he killed three men and was put in with the worst criminals. He shares a cell with a bunch of them.

The Story: Once a prisoner is sent to Haven, they never leave. The prisoners are just bodies that work the planet, growing crops and terraforming the planet. They stay in their cells when they aren’t in the fields. Though the worst criminals (including Jutari) rarely work the fields. Women are kept separately and most trade sex with the guards for favors and nutrition bars.

This was different than any prison planet romance than I have ever read before. Most that I have read, have the prisoners basically dropped onto the prison planet and left to their own devices. Kind of like I think Australia must have been when it was used as a prison for England up until the 1860’s. However, this prison was more like a work camp prison where the inmates were in jail much of the time but sent out to work for so many hours a day.

The story though was really good, and I wish there were more of this series. I really liked the characters, and the world building was awesome. I like most of Ruby Dixon’s work, but this was some of the best in my opinion. I loved that Jutari wanted Chloe to be his from the moment he saw her and that he had to protect her from guards and other prisoners.

I loved that Jutari was big and strong and able to protect Chloe and make her life better. I also liked that Chloe was just a normal college student who ended up going through these terrible situations and she stayed strong throughout even though she wasn’t one of those fierce warrior woman types. She was afraid a lot, even cried, but she fought back when she needed to.

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