#9 Fifty Shades of Blue with Ruby Dixon

<p>Hey there sparkly blue romance nerds, are you ready for an out-of-this-world discussion? No...literally. We're talking about sci-fi romance! Even better, we're talking in this episode about our favorite Kindle author (maybe one of our favorite authors out there?), Ruby Dixon and her alien romances series<i> Ice Planet Barbarians</i> and <i>Ice Home</i>! We're going to put on our spacesuits and jet out to the far side of an unknown galaxy to explore what a blue barbarian romance hero looks like, acts like, and whether or not this is worth the read. <i>Spoiler alert, we say yes</i>. We'll also discuss the issues that readers might have with the series, so please review the trigger warnings below!</p> <p> </p> <p>TW: Discussions of rape and forced consent, dubious consent, abduction/kidnapping, and sex slaves and alien slave trade.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Terms</u></p> <ul> <li>Ice Home <ul> <li>Spin off series of Ice Planet Barbarians (IPB), but also refers to the settlement where the spin-off characters live</li> </ul> </li> <li>D-Class <ul> <li>Earth is a D-Class planet in this universe, meaning that it is strictly forbidden for alien races to contact humans/land on earth/ etc. However, due to the rampant human slave trade, certain races are known to kidnap human women (especially) for the trade</li> </ul> </li> <li>Sa-khui/modified-sakh <ul> <li>The inhabitants of Not-Hoth and the heroes in the whole of <i>Ice Planet Barbarians</i> series. They are an alien species identified by having sweeping horns on their heads (like rams), long twitchy tails, four fingers and four toes, skin in varying shades of blue, and the males have a spur above their penis. They are also plated with natural body armor. The females of the species do not have a spur, and have smaller breasts than the human women, unless they're pregnant. They are "modified" sakh, because they are descended from the messakah species who crash landed on Not-Hoth eons ago, and in order to survive they took on the khui (a