Nadine’s Champion by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Of all the men on the Icehome beach, Thrand’s the most competitive and most aggravating. He’s cocky. Arrogant. Turns everything into a rivalry. He’s a pain in the you know what. 

He also keeps insisting that I kiss him. After all, I’m the one that told him a kiss didn’t mean anything. It shouldn’t. A kiss is just a kiss as far as humans are concerned. But Thrand’s a clone, a race of people called a’ani, and he’s been brought up to play hard and to win. 

And he wants to win me. 

But does Thrand want me for the right reasons? Or am I just another conquest?

Nadine’s Champion

Old grandfather strikes again!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: ☹️☺️😒😍🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Nadine – she was abducted from earth by aliens and ended up on a spaceship that crashed on an ice planet. She becomes a useful member of the Icehome tribe and is a good hunter. She is attracted to Thrand but he has been taken with Angie from the start, so even though he now seems to want her, she doesn’t want to be anyone’s second choice. She also misses her mom and sisters who are back on earth.

The Hero: Thrand – he and his brother Vordis are two of over a thousand clones who were made to be gladiators. They were on their way to a new owner when their ship crashed on the ice planet. Both Thrand and Vordis thought it was their duty to protect Angie who woke up from her pod to find she was pregnant. Though Vordis ended up mated to Angie.

The Story: During a silly game of spin the bottle, Thrand and Nadine kiss and he finds that he is very attracted to her. The following day when Nadine seems depressed, Thrand is there to help her out of her depression. He offers to go running with her, since she used to run with her sister. Though he doesn’t understand running for the sake of running when it isn’t to go somewhere or to race.

This story was a good one, I thought both characters were cute, and I loved that Nadine was a good hunter and happy for the most part. She got a little sad a few times because she missed her family, but she didn’t dwell on it or whine about her lot in life. She enjoyed things and I like how she treated Thrand. Thrand was so cute in that he was really competitive and never wanted to hear that others could possibly do something better than him. Though it ended him up in some trouble with old grandfather.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Sean Crisden and Felicity Munro. These two have done most or all of the Icehome audiobooks and both of them are terrific narrators. I like both their voices and they are great at doing multiple characters in different voices.

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