#10: Adventures on an Ice Planet

<p>Welcome back to Not-Hoth, dear humans! You sparkly thing you, thanks for giving us a listen! In this episode, we, Jen and Jackie, follow up on our discussion of the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon. We narrowed down the 18+ books of the series into a critical think session of four books that we reallllllly wanted to talk about. This is a heavier discussion, and we have some difficult themes we're going to be talking about, including <i>dubious consent</i>, <i>rape</i>, <i>kidnapping</i>, and <i>slavery</i>. We end the discussion with a shout out to some of our other favorites in the series (there are many), and Jen gives us a particularly bad joke (as usual). Thanks for listening!</p> <p>Reminder to go back and listen to the first episode this month (episode #9), as there's a lot of information about the Ruby Dixon universe!</p> <p>Don't forget to email us at RagingRomantics@gmail.com if you have any questions, concern, recommendations, or just want to say howdy.</p> <p> </p> <p><u>TW</u>: Discussions of rape and rape culture, dubious consent (dubcon), kidnapping, and slavery</p> <p> </p> <p><u>Books we talk about: </u></p> <ul> <li><i>Ice Planet Barbarians</i> (IPB #1)- Georgie and Vektal</li> <li><i>Barbarian's Prize</i> (IPB #5)- Tiffany and Salukh</li> <li><i>Barbarian's Mate </i>(IPB #6)- Josie and Haeden</li> <li><i>Barbarian's Redemption </i>(IPB #12) - Bek and Elly</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><u>Terms</u></p> <ul> <li><i>Dark Romance</i> <ul> <li>Generally contains kidnapping or entrapment, psychological and/or physical abuse, and dubious consent, often because of revenge, a misunderstanding, or a debt that must be paid. The hero is usually an inflictor of most if not all of that; </li> <li>Ultimately the category falls into an awkward area between romance, erotica, and horror. (<a target="_blank" href="https://bookriot.com/dark-romance-books/">bookriot.com</a>) </li> </ul> </li> <li><i>Hurt/Comfort</i> <ul> <li>Heavily focuses on the interaction of a pair of characters;