#the ice planet barbarian series by ruby dixon

[dollypartonswig]

My top 10 books of the year!

1 ) The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard -

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime memoir Eve has written about her efforts to track down her family's killer. As he turns each page, his rage grows. Because Jim's not just interested in reading about the Nothing Man. He is the Nothing Man. Jim soon beings to realize how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won't give up until she finds him. He has no choice but to stop her first.

2 ) The Night Ship - Jess Kidd -

1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia , one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where his late mother once resided. There, on the tiny reef-shrouded island, he discovers the story of an infamous shipwreck…

3) The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams -

Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list… hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.

4) Midnight Is The Darkest Hour - Ashley Winstead -

Ruth Collier has always felt like an outsider, even as her father rains fire and brimstone from the church pulpit. In Bottom Springs, his word is as good as law. But there are things the townspeople fear more than God, like the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to kill sinners in their beds on moonless nights. When a skull is found deep in the swamp, a hunt for the Low Man begins. Suspicion turns to Everett – Ruth's oldest friend, with a dark past. As Ruth and Everett grow closer, Ruth begins to unearth the town's secrets, determined to discover the truth. But as the line between good and evil grows ever thin, how far will Ruth go to save the person she loves most?

5) The Appeal - Janice Hallett -

The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife Helen, the play’s star. Their young granddaughter has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and with an experimental treatment costing a tremendous sum, their castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced of the experimental treatment’s efficacy—or of the good intentions of those involved. As tension grows within the community, things come to a shocking head at the explosive dress rehearsal. The next day, a dead body is found, and soon, an arrest is made. In the run-up to the trial, two young lawyers sift through the material—emails, messages, letters—with a growing suspicion that the killer may be hiding in plain sight. The evidence is all there, between the lines, waiting to be uncovered.

6) My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite -

When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...

7) Outlawed - Anna North -

The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.

8) Madhouse At The End Of The Earth - Julian Sancton -

The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry--with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the Belgica's voyage and exclusive access to the ship's logbook, Sancton tells the tale of its long, isolated imprisonment on the ice--a story that NASA studies today in its research on isolation for missions to Mars. In vivid, hair-raising prose, Sancton recounts the myriad forces that drove these men right up to and over the brink of madness.

9) Morbidly Yours - Ivy Fairbanks -

Callum Flannelly would rather dive into an open grave than take a stranger to dinner and a movie. But he can only inherit the family undertaking business and carry on their legacy under one condition: He must marry before his 35th birthday. So it’s out of the mortuary and into the dating scene. Lark Thompson would rather get crushed by a falling anvil than stay next to a funeral home during her stay in Galway, Ireland. The vivacious American cartoon creator and animator came here to embrace life, not be reminded of losing her husband. When Lark learns of Callum’s dilemma and aversion to marrying out of necessity rather than love, she agrees to help the introverted mortician. Although sworn off love herself, she is optimistic that Callum can find The One and secure his inheritance. But as the dating project progresses and their friendship grows, so does a mutual attraction. The more time she spends with serious, sarcastic Callum, the more she dreads finding him a match. And the more disastrous dates he endures, the more he dreads Lark’s imminent return to the states. If they think it’s possible to ignore their connection, they’re dead wrong.

10) Bunny - Mona Awad -

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

#honourable mentions to any Mariana zapata book #the ice planet barbarian series by ruby dixon #the sea sand warriors series by ursa dax and #also berries and greed by lily mayne(do not judge me) #bookblr #bookworm

[gloomzies]

got some IPB for people who read smutty alien books. Yes. Some of my favorite moody men (except Ainar hes a cinnamon roll) all this belongs to the wonderful author Ruby Dixon

#ipb #ice planet barbarians #ruby dixon #rubydixon #iceplanetbarbarians #icehome series #risdaverse #ndek and devi #rjaal #raahosh #ainar and naomi

[savannahjamesauthor]

I’ll never find love. My expectations of men have become too high from alien romance books.

#alien romance #ice planet barbarians #clecanian series #ruby dixon

[sigynrose]

#ice planet barbarians #ruby dixon #my ocs #yes it’s 2023 yes I only read this series this summer I only made it to book 10 before classes started #i spent entirely too much time on this

[capnmarvell]

Look I know I’m late to the party but I’ve been devouring the IPB/Icehome series for the last 3 weeks and I NEEEEEEEEEEED more fanart of N’dek and Devi

They are my all time favorite couple and there is so little fanart of them. Pls artistic fans of this series, grace us with the N’dek and Devi fanart 😭

#Ruby Dixon #ice planet barbarians #Icehome #Icehome series #IPB #ice planet barbarians series #IPB fanart #n’dek #n’dek x devi #devi

[mmarberry]

i’m not even reading ipb for the smut i’m in it for the plot. this shit is so fucking good

#ice planet barbarians #barbarian mine #ruby dixon #blue alien men #with spurs 🫣🫣😏 #the men are so respect of the women #i love this book series ngl <3

[krispypotato]

I finished all of the ice planet barbarians and ice home books and I simultaneously feel like I just ran a marathon and and also annoyed that I have to wait until the end of January for the first book in the Clone series.

#ice planet barbarians #ipb #ice planet #ruby dixon #ice home series #ice home

[mayhem24-7forever]

Ladies, Theydies, and Gent Le Mans, I present to you my tier list of the first 72 books of the Ice Planet Barbarians extended universe. This is apart of my (currently) 108 slide powerpoint presentation that started as something my friends asked for and has become like a scientific quest to me. 

#ice planet barbarians #ipb #ruby dixon #icehome #corsairs #risdaverse #guys series #fireblood dragon #fireblood

[thewritehag]

This might be mean and entirely unfair, but romances written by an author from the southern U.S. have a morally skewed, trad wife vibe.

Don't get me wrong, I like the writing of the series I'm jumping around in; the ice giant smurf type aliens are frequently half-nekky and are really sweet, but there's a ride or die parasite symbiote that basically forces soulmate breeding.

Honestly, with one eye closed, I can get passed all that--it's buff alien erotica: Chest worms that keep their human hosts from dying on a hostile planet is a pre-requisite--But, when one of the human women kills all the sex traffickers who abducted them, she and the other humans, keep calling it murder. The natives don't, so there's that.

Good smut, even if you have to suspend your disbelief that a predominantly male (that they're not human, but humanoid notwithstanding) alien tribe would know all about cunnilingus and nothing about blowies (not necessarily a complaint, I guess).

They're like this guy except they're ridiculously cut, blue himbos

#gif warning #i did find the ice planet barbarian series #by ruby dixon #it's really good writing and a lot of fun but some stuff is hard to ignore #if you're a new or more 'conservative' monster fucker these books might be the right fit #like #I don't want to say southern white women are a special kind of weird buuuuuuut #I'm being mean I'm sorry #I do like the books #romance #the humans keep calling the natives aliens even though they're the ones crash landed on another planet #what are we british come on now

[whatsgnat]

I took like 6 hours to make this so I thought I'd share it here too!

Me at the start vs the end(ish) of series, Ruby Dixon universe edition!

TW: for badly done fake brusies/injuries.

I'm kinda nervous posting myself here but here we go 🥲

#ice planet barbarians #ice planet barbarian #ruby dixon #Icehome #fireblood dragon series #corsairs series #corsairs ruby dixon

[c-chai]

I just started book 15 of the Icehome series, (Sam's book) and ooh i did not expect this pairing at alllllllll. I AM SO EXCITEDDDDDDD!!!!!!

#personal #icehome #icehome series #ice planet barbarians #ruby dixon #reads

[girly-pop-reads]

starting series..

Im starting off with the Ruby Dixon Ice Planet Barbarian Series

#ruby dixon #ice planet barbarians #book review #book series

[timetravellingshinigami]

For anyone who likes a good alien romance with plot and smut👌👌 I

happily give some recommendations .

There's one which give me Miles Quaritch x reader/oc vibes 😏

Obviously if you love big blue aliens (Na'vi)

You gotta check out Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

You can also go on the tag #iceplanetbarbarians and you'll find memes and art. It's a big fandom for this series.

There's a spinofff series of this called CORSAIR Brothers

And the first book ADIRON

Has a hilarious hero who's goofy and a himbo. Personal favourite 👌

Next if you want aliens who are very Na'vi like in culture but also don't hesitate to use technology then this one is for you

The Ash Planet Warriors

It's a spin off of the series Garrison Earth.

There are three races here the Vetusian, Jal'zar i.e The Ash Planet Warriors and Humans. The humans and Jal'zar are invaded by the Vetusians.

My favourite book in the spin off is this

Enemies to loves, political marriage. Here's a summary

I won’t touch her. But I will torment her soul. While the other warlords mate with the daughters of our enemy, I want nothing to do with these political marriages. Fate calls me north, searching for what the shamans say will complete my soul.

Now in the Garrison Earth series the last book is very interesting.

It's the Miles Quaritch x reader/oc fanfics but in a book 👇👀👀

Claimed

I conquered her planet and pillaged her body. Now I’m back for her heart.

A decade ago, I brought war to Solgad, home of the Jal’zar. I sacked the planet and slaughtered the people, all to save my race from extinction. Until one of their female warriors hissed defiance, promising me death at her hands no matter how her body longed for mine.

Each night, she came to end me, only to succumb to the raw urges of her mating heat.Each night, I gave her hungry womb what it needed, the way we coupled neither safe nor sane.

I was the enemy she couldn’t kill.She was the female I couldn’t have.

Together, we unleashed chaos.

Many solar cycles after the occupation, I return to Solgad, searching the ashen plains for her: my soulmate. This time, I will claim the Jal’zar female as mine, and nobody will get in the way.

Not even myself.

If you can, do read the entire series first if you want to know a little back story of the male character.

Now on to a villian from a different series

Zorus from Redeeming Zorus by Laurann Dohner.

Here's an enthusiastic comment about the character

Zorus, You Evil Bigot, M*ther F@cking, Sadistic Bastard!!! I have HATED You for SOOO LONG. Now I have to read your Love Story!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Anyway here's what's he's all about: Zorus is a member of the Ruling Council that governs cyborgs. His orders are law and must be obeyed. But Zorus is a sick bastard. He hates humans with a passion, and has been an evil terror to all cyborg males that have attempted to take a human female as a mate. He has gone as far as ordering them to be killed under the pretense that they were Earth Government spies searching for cyborgs.

But in a way his intense hate is justified. It's like if a Na'vi wanted to kill all the humans and Avatars (even the good ones), and all the hybrid children, because of what the RDA has done in Pandora.

Obviously this book is part of a series.

I'm sorry this spiralled into Alien villains but here's the last one

The Fractured Mate

Comments on the book:

Halian was so damned evil in previous books, I couldn't possibly imagine how he could be redeemable. But DAMN if our author didn't come up with the absolute most genius, creative, plot twist of an explanation!

Again part of a series of many interesting alien characters. Best to read those so you get an idea of how bad Halian is.

Now three other good alien books (not a villain main character)

Heart's Prisoner by Olivia Riley

He's not like anything Lana has ever encountered.

Asset X: Massive, deadly, a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior. And a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases--Lazris.

And Lana has been assigned to "study" him. To learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. As a top behaviorist, it is the biggest hurdle of her career.

Very alien looking hero and mostly from the FMC point of view so there's a whole lot of mystery around him and what he's thinking. When we talking alien this dude is very alien. Also, it's a slow burn. Definitely no attraction at first sight. Actually we're all terrified 😂

Next is Classified Planet: Turongal of The Darvel Exploratory Systems

Cottonwood by R.Lee. Smith

Have you seen District 9? If you haven't please do..one of the best Sci fi alien movies out there. Anyway this book has the same kind of aliens. And a sort of similar plot. It feels like a fanfiction if that movie but it's different from the book too. All the characters are well written and brilliant plot. If 'Hearts Prisoner ' hero is a 7 on the "how alien does he look?" scale, the aliens in this book are a 9.

Argurma Salvager #1 Broken Earth

☝️ Hero's features inspired by the Predator in Alien vs Predator movies.

Saving Askara #1 Saving Askara

This has :

First contact

Slow burn (almost all the books i mentioned are slow burn)

Learning the cultures (Ash Planet also is about learning a different culture.)

Anyway these are some of my favorites and the best sci-fi alien romance i love till date ❤️ obviously there'are many more that I've probably forgotten 😅

#book recommendation #sci fi #sci fi books #sci fi romance #avatar way of water #avatar 2 #miles quaritch #jake sully #miles quaritch x reader #na'vi x reader #avatar recoms #ice planet barbarians #ash planet warriors #ruby dixon #v.k ludwig #s.j sanders #alien x reader #alien boyfriend #alien goddess #lyle wainfleet

[lainalit]

As someone who loves the Ice planet barbarian series by ruby dixon who is a fated mate author and where all mates get together at the end of the books, I was shocked to find out that acotar fans are now so against the fated mating trope.

I thought that everyone who read the books loved the fated mates trope and wants the mates to be together in the end, like this is the whole point of the genre. If I wanted to read a will they/ won't they, I would pick books without this trope, because fated mate tropes are always predictable and that's why many readers like them, because they know the outcome (even If it takes longer to get there)

#acotar #acomaf #acowar #acotar thoughts #acotar critical #sjm critical #a court of thorns and roses #If you want to choose the love interest don't read the fated mate trope

[vellorias]

Rereading the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon and had to do some fan art ^^ Didn't have a specific couple in mind, but it's kind of reminding me of Sam and Sessah or Elly and Bek. 

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #digital art #sketch #procreate #artists of tumblr #art practice #procreate art #sketchbook #ice planet barbarians #ice planet clones #ipb #ruby dixon #elly and bek #sam and sessah #fanart #book fanart #booklr #booktok #bookish #digital illustration #romance #couple #lovers #blue alien #fantasy romance #avatar #alien smut

[azsazz]

Book Recs

Heyoooo, since I've finished my reading goal for the year I thought i would share what i've read and what i rated them, if anyone's looking for book recs! :) *Also, these are MY personal opinions so don't come for me if you don't agree*

The Cruel Prince Series (3), Holly Black — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Psycho Shifters Series (3), Jasmine Mas ⭐️⭐️

Court of the Vampire Queen, Katee Robert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Bonds that Tie Series (6), J. Bree ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ice Planet Barbarians (1-3), Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Helyfyre, Mariel Pomeroy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gild (Currently 4 out), Raven Kennedy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Serpent & The Wings of Night (2), Carissa Broadbent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Twisted Games, Ana Huang ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Crescent City, House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas ⭐️⭐️

Heavenly Bodies (2), Imani Erriu ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Ritual, Shantel Tessier ⭐️⭐️

Throne of Glass Series (8), Sarah J. Maas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Haunting Adeline, H. D. Carlton ⭐️

A Soul of Ash and Blood, Jennifer L. Armentrout ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Triple Duty Bodyguards, Lily Gold ⭐️⭐️⭐️

King of Battle and Blood (2), Scarlett St. Clair ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Three Swedish Mountain Men, Lil Gold ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Corrupt Series (6), Penelope Douglas ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My Roommate is a Vampire, Jenna Levine ⭐️

Cruel Seduction, Katee Robert ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Faking with Benefits, Lily Gold ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nanny for the Neighbors, Lily Gold ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Legacy of God series by Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (the newest book (5/6) is 5 stars I loved it)

King of Wrath by Ana Huang ⭐️

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maeher ⭐️

Credence by Penelope Douglas ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier ⭐️⭐️

Icebreaker and Wildfire by Hannah Grace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Deal by Elle Kennedy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

To Kill a Shadow by Katherine Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#azsazz book recs