When She’s Handy: A Risdaverse Short Story by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Five years ago, an alien saved me from a cruel master. He rescued me and I fell in love instantly, only for him to turn around and dump me on Risda III. 

I both love and hate him for that choice.

I’ve moved on and created a life for myself on this strange alien planet amongst the other refugee humans. I create things for them out of scrap, things from home, things that humans want and aliens don’t understand. I’m happy enough.

But then the alien I can’t forget…returns.

When She’s Handy

Short and sweet!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙🩷💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙂🙁😉🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Melody – she has been on Risda 3 for five years and knows that farming isn’t for her. So, whenever there are work crews on the planet, she talks to the boss and gets his permission to pick through their scraps. She finds some gems that she plans to use for her repair business. She is surprised when she sees Brux at the most recent work site she was picking from. She is elated to see him again and is determined not to let him go this time.

The Hero: Brux – he is a project manager in space. He is in charge; it is him that will hear it from his employer if things aren’t on schedule and on budget. He has been with building and repair crews for more than ten years. He is unmated and works with crews that get jobs based on strength and hard work. He considers himself Messakah station trash. He first met Melody five years ago and it took him that long to get over her. When he sees her again, he knows it will be another five years to get over him again.

The Story: when Melody was first kidnapped by aliens, she was bought by an old Messakah who abused her, Brux saved her by buying her from the man, though he ended up dropping her off on Risda 3, since it is a safe place for human females. She has wanted him and only him ever since. He thinks that Melody deserves better than him, he is an outlaw and no good family name or credits. His blood isn’t even pure Messakah. He is determined no to let her get to him again like she did five years ago.

The story is interesting, Melody is kind of obsessed with Brux, and he isn’t the standard ex-con from the bad side of the galaxy. He is secretly a very good man. He spent a whole lot of his own money to rescue her with no thought to what he would get out of it and now, he refuses to sleep with her because he says he doesn’t know her well enough. This was another novella from Ruby Dixon, so it had all of her romance, but I like the longer stories with more of an adventure.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view and was narrated in dual narration by Mason Lloyd and Jillian Macie. These two narrate a lot of Ruby Dixon’s books and I have read and listened to most of them. I like both of these narrators. Mason has a great voice and is very expressive as is Jillian Macie. I like her voice and her enthusiasm.

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