Nevermind personalities or preferences or anything that shallow. It also decided who their “mate” will be by resonating with the member of the opposite sex with whom they are the best generic match to create healthy offspring. In order to survive on the ice planet, humans have to act as a symbiotic host to another organism that helps their bodies function more efficiently. I’m not certain if this was an intentional choice by Dixon, or if just didn’t even register with them that they were taking that away. The rules the author establishes for the world essentially take any kind of valid consent out of the equation.

I can say least give Dominique the courtesy of including her name here. She’s barely named, but they spend several paragraphs describing her ordeal, why it happened to her, and what she could have done differently to avoid having that experience. There is a graphic gang rape of what in tv would be called an extra in the first 20 pages. Because, honestly, this book needs trigger and/or caution warnings all over the place. I have been unable to get it to display with that tag now that I’ve read it, which makes me wonder if there was a glitch or if I only imagined it. It should be a terrifying prospect.I picked up Ice Road Barbarians by Ruby Dixon on Kindle Unlimited because the listing was flagged as “Number 1 in Romantic Comedy” and since it’s obviously sci-fi, I thought it might be a delightful bit of space camp à là Spaceballs. He's truly a barbarian in all ways, and like Tarzan in the stories, he's kidnapped me and claimed me for his own.īeing with him means I'm going to have to teach him to speak, how to kiss, and how to be human. A human-a human woman-is mystifying to him. He's completely uncivilized, can't speak more than a few words and doesn't know what clothes are.

Resonance means mating, and children.but I don't know if this guy's ever been around anyone before. And when he takes me captive, the unthinkable happens.I resonate to him. What I didn't anticipate? That there'd be a savage stranger waiting nearby, watching me. Sure, there are no cheeseburgers, but I'm healthy and ready to be a productive member of the small tribe. The ice planet has given me a second lease on life, so I'm thrilled to be here. Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own his whole life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff, barbaric alien than the savage he appears to be. The fourth novel in the international publishing phenomenon the Ice Planet Barbarians series, now in a special print edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue!

St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).

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