Surviving Skarr by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Overnight, my life has changed to one of sheer survival.

I wake up on a strange alien world covered in ice. I have no memories of myself, not even my name.

And I’ve resonated to the biggest braggart on the planet. Skarr is a chest-beating alpha male gladiator with lizard genetics and an intense case of self-love. He tells everyone within hearing distance how amazing he is. Bleh.

I want nothing to do with him, but according to the khui, we’re soulmates. This means we’re bound to have babies and live our lives out together…forever…

Not if I have anything to say about it.

To survive, I’m going to have to figure out who I am, what I am…and what to do about the man who won’t shut up about how incredible and perfect I am.

It has to be an act… doesn’t it?

Surviving Skarr

I loved this one!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💚💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌎
Character development: ☹️☺️😍😄😘
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Vivian (a.k.a. Vivi) – she wakes up naked, thinking she is in her bed, but she finds herself in some sort of sleeping pod and it is very cold. She finds that she was sent to an ice planet but has no clue what her name is and how she got there. The human woman named Flor that is in charge, since she lives on the planet, gives her the name Vivian and she finds a device on her wrist with a hologram that tells her she is a clone and clones are illegal and usually put to death, so she and a bunch of other clones were put on the ice planet where she could live safely.

The Hero: Skarr – he is a clone with splices of Messakah, a lizard-like alien, and a few other things, and has always known he was a clone, but he is also a gladiator and made to fight in the arena. He and the other gladiators, figure there were too many clones made, which is why they are unwanted and were placed on the ice planet. Though they don’t really understand how to live without fighting and competitions. They think the women are their prizes and want nothing more than to compete and mate with the females.

The Story: Skarr and Vivian get their Khui (symbiote) to keep them healthy and warmer on the ice planet. Skarr wants to resonate with one of the females, so he and another gladiator fight each other, with the hopes that the winner will resonate and get a woman as a prize. He thinks he is the greatest thing ever, when he wins the fight even though all the women are not happy about them fighting for no reason. He thinks his plan worked though when he resonates with Vivi. She is not happy that she resonated with Skarr, she thinks he is sort of dumb and way too arrogant.

I liked these two characters quite a bit. Skarr and the other gladiators were pretty funny, how they didn’t understand freedom at all and only got competitions and winning. Skarr was very arrogant, though it was so funny that it was cute, instead of being condescending or brutish about it. This book had a lot more humor in it than a lot of Ruby Dixon’s other books. I laughed quite a bit, especially at Skarr’s antics and some of the things he said. He wasn’t always the brightest bulb in the box, but he was definitely lovable.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Hollie Jackson and Mason Lloyd. I love these two narrators for Ruby Dixon books, it is like coming home to something you know you will enjoy.

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