Ice Planet Barbarians

 

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So a lot of personal changes have been happening resulting in a little bit of a reading slump, but I’m happy to say that, after over a fortnight of not wanting to reading anything, I have finally closed the cover on a book. A while back, my book club picked our next read with the express purpose of it being monumentally different to all of the other books that we have read so far. Deciding to go with a theme of smut and ridiculous, we opted for Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon and this is the book that I just finished.

The book chronicles the erotic adventures of Georgie, a woman who is abducted by aliens, to be sold in some heinous off-world market. During the flight from Earth, the cargo ship experiences a malfunction and crash lands on an icy planet. Georgie and her fellow captives manage to escape their horrifying alien captors and shack up in the abandoned cargo hold. It falls to Georgie to venture out and see if she can find any resources or a way home, but during her exploration she gets caught in a hunting trap and awakens in a cave with a muscular, tender, and gentlemanly alien between her legs. From there Georgie must overcome lust, the language barrier, and the hostile elements of this planet if she’s going to find a way to save her friends. But with the help of Vektal, a sexy blue-skinned barbarian chief who has picked Georgie for a mate, she might just be able to do it.

It has to be said that this book was not picked for its incredible writing or ground-breaking story. Indeed, the girls who decided thought it was about time that those of us who don’t usually read trashy, dime-store erotica needed some exposure. While my entrance into reading this book was impeded by a whole heap of personal dramas, I can’t honestly say that this was not what I needed. The literary equivalent of a popcorn movie, Ice Planet Barbarians is a mindless, erotic, romp rich in…imagery.

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While the story is predictable and the characters have the same breadth as a piece of paper, the voyeuristic appeal of this book cannot be denied. Dixon paints a world that we’ve seen before, but with a few new and original perils, and I suppose if you really wanted to try and read some meaning in the story’s events, you could argue that it’s a piece about raising awareness for conservation and the continuance of a species. It’s refreshing to have the leading lady be cynical and view the world in movie references while the man is sarcastically over-masculine and has a huge, throbbing… sense of chivalry. Even the intense sex scenes cannot overshadow the humour that Dixon has shoved in there.

It's a book that’s not meant to be taken seriously: a silly, mindless, afternoon read and it absolutely lives up to that purpose. Despite a shaky start, I actually read about 80% of the book in a few hours! It’s fun, definitely sexy and smutty, and just rather lithely enjoyable.

Author: Ruby Dixon, 2015

Published: E-Book, Kindle form, Amazon, 2015