Barbarian’s Heart by Ruby Dixon

TL;DR: Another installment in the ICP series – this is the one that’ll probably make you cry.
Source: NetGalley and I have pre-ordered my own copy!

Plot: This takes place almost immediately after the end of the last book follow Stacy and her mate who has amnesia. It’s very melancholy for a good portion of the book.
Characters: As usual we focus on the love pairing, but a few side characters did shine through.
Setting: Not Hoth seems horribly cold and I never want to live there.
Romance: I 100% loved this pair. They were so cute together and their story of falling back in love was amazing.

Thoughts:

Barbarian’s Heart continues the ICP series immediately after the earthquake of the previous book and we see the story of Pashov and Stacey. Pashov takes a heavy blow to the head during the earthquake and ends up loosing all his memories of the humans, and most importantly Stacey and their son.

Here is the thing, this one messed me up! I knew exactly what I was going in for but the melancholy, marriage in trouble, like some of these things hit close to home. I would put the book down and just go cuddle my husband because wow. Ruby can write funny and Ruby can write ‘make you so sad you need a cuddle’. Stacey struggles, even as Pashov tries to court her again and tries to remember and make their life over. She wants the old Pashov and she has a hard time coming to terms with what happens. But as this is a happy ending I think you can figure out what happens.

I did really like the ending here, I like the teasing we’ve been getting about more of this world and I’m always excited to finish another ICP and wait for the next new reprint.

4 out of 5 egg breakfasts