Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians, #3) by Ruby Dixon

Barbarian Lover (Ruby Dixon)

SUMMARY

As one of the few humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he wants me. It's hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako, when all I want to do is grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs.

But I've got a terrible secret - the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. My presence here endangers everyone... but can I give up my new life and the man I want more than anything? 

MY REVIEW

Living in fear of what might happen prevents us from enjoying what we have today.

Aehako is sexy, sweet, nice, very good with his hands, open-minded and definitely interested in Kira. This was obvious in Barbarian Alien. Now it is the time to stake his claim. It doesn’t matter that his khui does not sing for her. Aehako is determined to make Kira his mate.

“I do not need a khui to tell me who is the mate for me. You are mine and I will take every moment as a gift.”

Kira is miserable. She is 22 years old, still virgin, unable to have children ever and constantly rejected by her old boyfriends. Moreover she is stuck with a painful translator inside her ear which the little green men have put inside her to communicate. Kira has helped a lot the girls to survive, but now the equipment is redundant and it may attract the little green men back. She knows why her khui does not sing and although she craves attention, she avoids Aehako for his own good.

“I don’t want you to feel trapped with me.”

The book is not as funny as the first two books, but very emotional and sweet. There is this joke that started from the previous book about the courting gift that Liz suggested, so that Aehako can officially court Kira. But after a while it does matter because the gift becomes really very useful.

Aehako is mainly pushing Kira to open up, he does not get angry when she keeps things from him and he makes her feel good about herself. He will be the perfect boyfriend for the Sad Eyes human.
Kira is mainly pushing Aehako away. She is scared, with low self esteem and constantly sad and jealous of the rest of the girls. Aehako needs to try very hard, but a little jealousy created by his ex-girlfriend, Asha, will help Kira and Aehako come together.

“If you’re sure….”she says softly.
“I was sure the moment I saw your face.”
She pulls back, surprised. “You were?”
I nod. “I saw you and thought, if ever there was a female that needed a male to make her smile, it was you. And that we would be perfect together.”

Barbarian Alien (Ice Planet Barbarians, #2) by Ruby Dixon

Barbarian Alien (Ruby Dixon)

SUMMARY

Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me.

In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group. 

MY REVIEW 

Oooh, Me likey a lot!

After finishing the second book of “Ice Planet Barbarians”, I believe it is safe to compare the books to a box of chocolates. You know you will love them (because chocolate, dah…) , but you are not sure what kind of flavor or texture you will get.

I think this time I got the crunchy, sprinkle with nuts chocolate outside but with a gooey and melting milk chocolate inside, maybe with a surprise hazelnut in the centre.

Raahosh (i.e. the angry one who growls according to Kira’s translator) is simply a huge sweetheart. Tough, muscled all over, with ridges, scarred, really scary.
But apparently he has the best heart, the best intentions and he is truly a virgin.

Raahosh never had a loving family. He never had something that belonged to him. So when his khui is vibrating and purring for Liz, he is so happy that he found his mate. Until Liz starts talking and it becomes obvious that she hates him and unfortunate Raahosh cannot understand his khui anymore.
“My khui is an idiot.”

Still Raahosh does not give up. He steals away Liz and he tries to convince her to accept him as a mate and to carry his child.

Liz is an independent, smart mouth, feisty girl who does not want to become a mommy
no matter how much her khui insists….

“The cootie in my chest thrums, and I smack it to silence it. Fucking cootie.”

…and
no matter how hard Raadosh is trying to convince her.

“I really hate this guy,” I say as I chew aloud. “Can’t make lemonade when the lemon’s such a huge dick.”

Of course being a virgin and all and knowing nothing about the strange human courtship, does not help our big blue friend.

Needless to say, I loved this book. I laughed my head off and I had a great time with this awkward couple. They definitely deserve each other.

(If you don’t know what khui is, please read the first book. It is an interesting surprise…)

Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1) by Ruby Dixon

Ice Planet Barbarians (Ruby Dixon)

 

SUMMARY

 You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet.

And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me...

MY REVIEW

That was fun!

I absolutely love the theme “Alien Males fall in love and mate Earth Brides”. Thus, I really do not understand why it took me so long to start the Ice Planet Barbarians series and join this space party. No excuse besides the fact that time flies and I have a “To Be Read” book list with the height of Kilimanjaro.

In the first book, Georgie has been abducted from her warm bed while she was sleeping and she wakes up at a cargo ships full of disgusting aliens merchants/ traffickers and more Earth girls ready to be sold somewhere and to somebody. The situation is quite vague. The girls have to survive the hunger, the cold, the rapes, the experiments and their only weapon finally is a sh!t bucket. Honestly!

When the spaceship malfunctions and crashes on a strange ice cold planet, the horrible aliens abandon temporally their merchandise, i.e. the poor clueless earth girls.

Help will come from the inhabitants of this planet.
They are tall, they are blue, they have horns, tails and strange penis and they purr and vibrate. They prefer their food raw and they are in a desperate need of females.

We have two points of view in the book by Georgie and by Vektal, the big blue alien and excellent hunter and licker.

I had great fun with this book and I was mostly laughing. The way Vektal thinks, talks and acts is hilarious. If you don’t know anything about the story, I am sure that you will puzzle over what the f@ck KHUI is.
“She has given me her body when she has no khui to compel her.”

Ice Planet Barbarians

One of my favourite Sci-Fi romance series, which is also quite smutty, is the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon.
This series is on-going and so far around 20 books and short novels have been published.

Books 1 and 2 in this series were originally released as six-part serials:
1.1 - 1.6 Ice Planet Barbarians and 2.1 - 2.6 Barbarian Alien.

The rest of the books were published as  self-contained stories.

Each book contains the love story of a couple, usualy it is about an alien male and a girl from Earth. But you can find also books with two alien lovers as the main characters.

So during August, I would like to present the first books in the series.