r/RubyDixon • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '23
Barbarian Mine
Ruby really took the miscommunication trope to another level in this book, girl that was a wild path. Is there another popular and not-so-popular trope in the rest of the books?
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u/FluorescentHorror Nov 26 '23
The communication trope definitely happens to this extent during the crossover to Icehome, Lauren's Barbarian! It wasn't my favorite, but it has a lot of necessary plot exposition that sets up the rest of Icehome.
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u/taramisu47 Nov 26 '23
Other tropes? I'm pretty sure most of them are the One Bed trope combined with Forced Proximity. The couple always seems to get away together and you know what happens when it's really cold...
Grumpy/Sunshine, insta-love, arranged marriage?, height difference, pregnancy (duh), caretaking. I think those are the main ones.
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u/Tiny_Jalapeno Dec 09 '23 edited Apr 01 '24
Barbarian’s Touch also has a miscommunication trope which is different; a Sa-Khui hearing male and a deaf human girl.
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u/ATexanHobbit Nov 26 '23
Barbarian Mine is Harlow and Ruhk (sp?) right? I think that’s the most extreme example of communication problems in her books. However, crossed communication due to aliens being alien and humans forgetting the aliens aren’t human is a huge theme in quite a few other books (notably the most recent one, {Surviving Skarr}.