R’jaal’s Resonance by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

R’jaal has waited many turns of the seasons for his khui to resonate, only to be disappointed time and time again. But when he is taken captive by strange beings hiding in the very tunnels of the fruit caves, he wakes up to find himself in a strange underground cage.

Also in the cage? A very pretty unfamiliar human female. She says her name is Rosalind. She makes his khui sing.

It’s finally his time.

There’s a big problem, though—Rosalind has no khui of her own. And if she doesn’t get one soon, she could die.

R’jaal’s Resonance

Not a real girl!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😄😮🙂🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Rosalind – she wakes up thinking she was buried alive, inside a coffin. She is able to open it and finds herself in some type of pod in the middle of winter. She doesn’t know how she got there or where she is. She is wearing a white slip dress and a watch of some kind, though she doesn’t wear a watch. She sees a massive beast carrying a woman away and other pods around her. She is a fanfic writer and has never written anything so crazy. She runs to a nearby cliff with some greenery and goes up to see if there is a cave. She finds a cave and is captured by something.

The Hero: R’jaal – he is the only unmated male in his tribe on the beach. He has waited a long time for his Khui to resonate and has been hanging out with the only unmated female Tia, but nothing has been going on there. He travels with Tia and a few others to the fruit cave, where they are trying to figure out the mystery of where all the fruit has gone. R’jaal is taken hostage by some beings that have been living in the underground tunnels on the planet.

The Story: R’jaal and Rosalind end up in the same jail cell being held by some aliens with fur and four arms. R’jaal says they are ancestors. R’jaal immediately starts to resonate for Rosalind but she doesn’t have a Khui so she can’t resonate and will get sick and die without one. She is also very cold all the time because the Khui (symbiont) is what keeps them warm on the ice planet. One of their jailers seems intelligent though the other just looks at Rosalind with lust and he doesn’t care that she is R’jaal’s female, and he is resonating to her.

This is the first book in a new Ice Planet Barbarians spinoff called Ice Planet Clones. I was excited to get some new Ice Planet Stories. Though I do hope that Ruby Dixon does more series about space pirates or other kinds of aliens that travel out in space. I’m a bit over the barbarian themes, since the people live like people on Earth did thousands of years ago. I want future technology and exciting space adventures. So many alien romance books are about barbarian types. Though definitely Ruby was the leader of that trend.

The story was pretty good. I liked the addition of the beings in the tunnels. Like usual, the world building and character development was good. Rosalind was kind of a whiner, especially after she finds out she is a clone and not a ‘real person’ as they said in the book. Just when I kept thinking she got over it again, she would fall into another depression or have a nightmare about not being real.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Mason Lloyd and Hollie Jackson who did most of the Ice Planet Barbarians series. I grew to really like both of these narrators. I love the way Mason Lloyd has a kind of stilted voice for the alien men, it sounds very authentic. Hollie Jackson is great at showing emotion through her voice and I really enjoyed this as well.

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