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Ice Planet Clones #3
Romancing Rem'eb
I feel like an outsider wherever I go. Croatoan, the Icehome Beach...neither place is home to me. So when a group heads off to the fruit caves to investigate thievery, I go with them. Any excuse to get away from the beach, where I've made a fool of myself in front of my ex and his new mate.
Things go from bad to worse as I'm kidnapped by strangers. These new people have four arms, long fluffy tails, and arching horns. They aren't like any aliens I've seen before, and they live in the warm caverns below the mountains. They should be the enemy. I should hate them for snatching me.
But the chief's son says I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen...
New I romance the chief's son until he frees me. What could possibly go wrong?
Things go from bad to worse as I'm kidnapped by strangers. These new people have four arms, long fluffy tails, and arching horns. They aren't like any aliens I've seen before, and they live in the warm caverns below the mountains. They should be the enemy. I should hate them for snatching me.
But the chief's son says I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen...
New I romance the chief's son until he frees me. What could possibly go wrong?
313 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 13, 2024
About the author
Ruby Dixon
153 books17.1k followersRuby Dixon is an author of Science Fiction Romance. She likes fated mates, baby-filled epilogues, and cinnamon roll heroes. She also likes to write biographies of herself in the third person, because it feels more important that way.
Ruby also loves coffee and dirty books and will probably be a cat lady at some point. :)
Ruby also loves coffee and dirty books and will probably be a cat lady at some point. :)
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September 1, 2024
I don't think I've one-clicked a book so fast in a LONG time.
I'm incredibly obsessed with the Ice Planet Barbarians series (as I type on a computer covered in IPB stickers and drink tea out of a IPB mug...), and I've been waiting for Tia's story for a long time. This story really didn't disappoint. I could have used even more underground drama (it resolved kind of quickly in the end), but I guess it's nice to have some low-angst content.
Love, love, love anything in this series. NEVER stop writing them, Ruby Dixon!
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I'm incredibly obsessed with the Ice Planet Barbarians series (as I type on a computer covered in IPB stickers and drink tea out of a IPB mug...), and I've been waiting for Tia's story for a long time. This story really didn't disappoint. I could have used even more underground drama (it resolved kind of quickly in the end), but I guess it's nice to have some low-angst content.
Love, love, love anything in this series. NEVER stop writing them, Ruby Dixon!
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July 13, 2024
never ever did i think i would be this excited about politics
July 18, 2024
3.5 stars. It’s nice to be back in the IPB universe. This book was a nice installment and I enjoyed the world building. The relationship was sweet and I enjoyed finally being able to crawl around in Tia’s head. I definitely understand her better. I don’t love her, but this book made me more sympathetic towards her. I feel as the books go on she has the potential to be a good force as she gets older. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing where this book takes us and seeing more of her in her new role.
P.S. Ruby I’m giving up on those two missing pod people from Flor’s book. I’m chalking that up as a contingency error, either that or I have to accept that I have no patience 😂
P.S. Ruby I’m giving up on those two missing pod people from Flor’s book. I’m chalking that up as a contingency error, either that or I have to accept that I have no patience 😂
July 14, 2024
I will read these books forever
ice planet barbarians is the reason I downloaded kindle unlimited for the first time so long ago 😂
comfort books and I hope the series never ends
ice planet barbarians is the reason I downloaded kindle unlimited for the first time so long ago 😂
comfort books and I hope the series never ends
July 21, 2024
I'll never ever get enough of this❤️🔥
July 19, 2024
Buckle up folks because I have some FEELINGS about this book. First off, I’m as salty as Tia is about what went down in books 1-3 of Icehome. Expecting a teenager to commit to adult aliens instead of flirt with them is…. not ok. I’m so glad she found Stacy in Croatoan to be her surrogate mom. Stacy wins kindest person in Croatoan award, although both Salukh and Tiffany are rivals for that title. But I digress—back to this book.
I loved how imperfect Tia was, with her lonely childhood informing her views of the ice planet and the people on it. She was so happy to find her man, but of course, nothing is simple on this planet. Rem’eb was a sweetie who had to grow some spine during this book. His dad was ruled by grief and liable to some awful decisions, like kidnapping Tia. The language barrier was a fun throw back.
While I enjoyed this book as a whole, I was a little annoyed at neither MC catching on to an obvious solution to the main dilemma. Tia tended to be selfish, but read as more traumatized than anything else. I mean, who isn’t selfish when they haven’t had the resources to deal with childhood trauma? Plus being dumped on a planet at age 17 and then sent away for being a “problem” didn’t help. It’s hard to look outside of yourself when you’re hurting.
I thought the ending was solid and I am crossing my fingers so hard for some FF romance in this series!
Spice: 4/5
Triggers: Caverns/Underground locations, Imprisonment and captivity/kidnapping, References to past plague/disease, References to one character’s murder of another (off page), Pregnancy, Reference to forced resonance, A character is drugged (nothing bad happens to them), Strained parental relations, Past death of a parent, Isolation/Feeling unwelcome in a group, Questionable ocular medical treatment (it all turns out well), Mention of side character attempting to be a voyeur
I loved how imperfect Tia was, with her lonely childhood informing her views of the ice planet and the people on it. She was so happy to find her man, but of course, nothing is simple on this planet. Rem’eb was a sweetie who had to grow some spine during this book. His dad was ruled by grief and liable to some awful decisions, like kidnapping Tia. The language barrier was a fun throw back.
While I enjoyed this book as a whole, I was a little annoyed at neither MC catching on to an obvious solution to the main dilemma. Tia tended to be selfish, but read as more traumatized than anything else. I mean, who isn’t selfish when they haven’t had the resources to deal with childhood trauma? Plus being dumped on a planet at age 17 and then sent away for being a “problem” didn’t help. It’s hard to look outside of yourself when you’re hurting.
I thought the ending was solid and I am crossing my fingers so hard for some FF romance in this series!
Spice: 4/5
Triggers: Caverns/Underground locations, Imprisonment and captivity/kidnapping, References to past plague/disease, References to one character’s murder of another (off page), Pregnancy, Reference to forced resonance, A character is drugged (nothing bad happens to them), Strained parental relations, Past death of a parent, Isolation/Feeling unwelcome in a group, Questionable ocular medical treatment (it all turns out well), Mention of side character attempting to be a voyeur
July 16, 2024
Please just inject the Ice Planet Universe and its lore directly into my veins, thank yew
July 13, 2024
I think I'm maybe an outlier because I actually really enjoy the plots (when they exist) in these books. I'm already ready for more!
July 18, 2024
Does anyone else feel like Dixon’s characters are just copy/paste at this point? It’s weird because the women all have different backgrounds, interests, goals, and there’s certainly an attempt at different personalities, but they are written the same. The women all have the same internal voice. They all think similarly. They say the same things. And I don’t mean colloquially like how regions speak similarly. I mean every character sounds like the next. I have seen entire phrases and sentences repeated across multiple books. Every character has the basic framework of so sweet, so understanding, my mate is just the absolute best (even if they don’t like their mate in the beginning). Externally, they are written as having different personalities, but when we actually get their POV, if you were to remove their individual backgrounds and interests, it’s like I’m reading the same character over and over again. Even their reactions during sex are the same literally every time.
It’s especially bad for the men. To me, you could swap the men throughout any book in their series and their character would fit with any woman because their internal monologues, personalities, and way they think about their mate are basically the same every time. All the ice planet dudes are the same. It seems like they love their mate because of resonance, not who these women are as individuals. The dragon guys think the same. All the risdaverse guys are basically the same dude.
I want some actual diversity in these characters. I want to read their book and feel like they are their own person.
I think the only ones I feel like can kind of stand on their own and I actually think are her best books, as far as plot, character development, romance, and writing goes, are the ones about the gods in Aos.
Other than that, it was the same cuteness. These books are good for a cute, low-angst, quick read and this delivered on all three fronts. My one other problem with this book is that the main issue is the fact Tia and Rem’eb can’t speak with one another. In order for them to speak, Rem’eb needs the language dump. However, at the end, Cas’zor has a conversation with Lauren and Tia. He never got the language dump and neither human knows his language so how can he understand them? This was a serious continuity error and I’m surprised no one caught that.
It’s especially bad for the men. To me, you could swap the men throughout any book in their series and their character would fit with any woman because their internal monologues, personalities, and way they think about their mate are basically the same every time. All the ice planet dudes are the same. It seems like they love their mate because of resonance, not who these women are as individuals. The dragon guys think the same. All the risdaverse guys are basically the same dude.
I want some actual diversity in these characters. I want to read their book and feel like they are their own person.
I think the only ones I feel like can kind of stand on their own and I actually think are her best books, as far as plot, character development, romance, and writing goes, are the ones about the gods in Aos.
Other than that, it was the same cuteness. These books are good for a cute, low-angst, quick read and this delivered on all three fronts. My one other problem with this book is that the main issue is the fact Tia and Rem’eb can’t speak with one another. In order for them to speak, Rem’eb needs the language dump. However, at the end, Cas’zor has a conversation with Lauren and Tia. He never got the language dump and neither human knows his language so how can he understand them? This was a serious continuity error and I’m surprised no one caught that.
August 15, 2024
I like Ruby Dixon because usually I don't love her works, but I like them just enough to make them easy to read, no-stress palate cleansers.
Also new aliens are always a plus for me.
I do wish that Ruby allowed her heroines to be complete asshats once in a while because tbh, the way Tia (who was just a teen!) was treated was awful and if anyone deserves to act out, it's her.
I mean, we do have a clone gladiator side character who is absolutely insufferable and who deserves to be shot on sight because he annoys everyone and just won't shut the fuck up and I am certain that this will make him "cute" and likeable in his own upcoming installment (yuck)
If you're going to write walking talking trashcans, why are they always men?
Also new aliens are always a plus for me.
I do wish that Ruby allowed her heroines to be complete asshats once in a while because tbh, the way Tia (who was just a teen!) was treated was awful and if anyone deserves to act out, it's her.
I mean, we do have a clone gladiator side character who is absolutely insufferable and who deserves to be shot on sight because he annoys everyone and just won't shut the fuck up and I am certain that this will make him "cute" and likeable in his own upcoming installment (yuck)
If you're going to write walking talking trashcans, why are they always men?
July 14, 2024
Most plot I’ve seen and the least amount of romance in my opinion but it worked. It was hard for me to stop seeing Tia as the annoying teen girl but I loved her glow up at the end. Thats what I call character growth.
I wanted to take both of their sides at one point or another but couldn’t because I totally got the other sides POV as well. I liked that it wasn’t just one side being a jerk but both having extremely valid reasoning to their hurt/worries.
It was hard to get into at first because I already knew what happens when she’s kidnapped and escapes. But I did love getting the behind the scenes on her side since it was in another persons pov before.
I wanted to take both of their sides at one point or another but couldn’t because I totally got the other sides POV as well. I liked that it wasn’t just one side being a jerk but both having extremely valid reasoning to their hurt/worries.
It was hard to get into at first because I already knew what happens when she’s kidnapped and escapes. But I did love getting the behind the scenes on her side since it was in another persons pov before.
July 21, 2024
Not sure why, but this one was really hard for me to read, was bored for the first 60% or so. Part of it might have been Tia, she was never a favorite character, part of it was I kinda wanted to know more about this new clan of people and we didn't get it, then there was the whole communication issue for Tia and Rem'eb.
Now that part of the group went back with the new place, I'm intrigued to see how things go, to see if they are able to figure out what is/was wrong, if they can get trade going and to see if there are more couples mixed between all the people.
Now that part of the group went back with the new place, I'm intrigued to see how things go, to see if they are able to figure out what is/was wrong, if they can get trade going and to see if there are more couples mixed between all the people.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 18, 2024
“Romancing Rem’eb” by Ruby Dixon
3.5⭐️/5⭐️
3🌶/5🌶
“He’s not like anyone I flirted with in the past. There’s no bragging, no uncertainty. He knows exactly who he is and what’s going to happen. It’s that utter certainty that’s making my belly coil with want.”
-First off, I love the Ice Planet Barbarians literary universe. I love the OG series, I love the Icehome series, and so far I’ve been enjoying the Ice Planet Clones series. However, I was not a big fan of the MMC in this book.
-This story takes place parallel to R’jaal’s, and focuses on Tia, the young woman who was shipped away to Croatoan because she caused too much conflict. So far in the Icehome series, readers don’t get a clear idea of who Tia is outside of her love for flirting with the men, and a quasi-relationship with I’rec before he resonates to Flor.
-I was excited to learn more about Tia. In the past, there have been side characters in books that have come across in a not-so-positive light due to the POVs of the main MCs. But when you get to their book, and you get to read their POV, you gain a new understanding and appreciation. This is how it was for me with Ari and Zolaya, and now they’re my favorite couple on Not Hoth. And I have to say, by the end of the book I do have a new appreciation for Tia, and I like her as a character.
-But I’m not a fan of Rem’eb, and that’s what made reading this book so hard at times! When a guy is going through resonance I want him to go full caveman. I’m talking: logic goes out the window, he’s consumed by his need to fulfill resonance, he has tunnel vision for his mate, etc. But I didn’t get that with Rem’eb. He’s the son of his people’s chief, and he wears that hat first versus being Tia’s mate. Even after they realize they’re resonating with each other, he still says he’s going back to his people and leaving her! What! I hated that! Normally I love a level-headed MC, but I found Rem’eb’s unwillingness to consider being with Tia on the surface very irritating. (and yes, this gets resolved, but I didn’t like the journey leading up to its resolution)
-The smut was fine, it was ok. I think their relationship lacked the passion we normally see between couples on Not Hoth, and that’s probably due to a lack of chemistry. When they see each other for the first time they’re obviously attracted to each other, but aside from that I didn’t get a deep understanding of their connection. It felt weak.
-The ending for the book was really interesting and opened up so many more possibilities for future books than I initially considered when this series was announced. I’m still going to read subsequent books, but I doubt I’ll go back and reread Tia and Rem’eb’s story.
3.5⭐️/5⭐️
3🌶/5🌶
“He’s not like anyone I flirted with in the past. There’s no bragging, no uncertainty. He knows exactly who he is and what’s going to happen. It’s that utter certainty that’s making my belly coil with want.”
-First off, I love the Ice Planet Barbarians literary universe. I love the OG series, I love the Icehome series, and so far I’ve been enjoying the Ice Planet Clones series. However, I was not a big fan of the MMC in this book.
-This story takes place parallel to R’jaal’s, and focuses on Tia, the young woman who was shipped away to Croatoan because she caused too much conflict. So far in the Icehome series, readers don’t get a clear idea of who Tia is outside of her love for flirting with the men, and a quasi-relationship with I’rec before he resonates to Flor.
-I was excited to learn more about Tia. In the past, there have been side characters in books that have come across in a not-so-positive light due to the POVs of the main MCs. But when you get to their book, and you get to read their POV, you gain a new understanding and appreciation. This is how it was for me with Ari and Zolaya, and now they’re my favorite couple on Not Hoth. And I have to say, by the end of the book I do have a new appreciation for Tia, and I like her as a character.
-But I’m not a fan of Rem’eb, and that’s what made reading this book so hard at times! When a guy is going through resonance I want him to go full caveman. I’m talking: logic goes out the window, he’s consumed by his need to fulfill resonance, he has tunnel vision for his mate, etc. But I didn’t get that with Rem’eb. He’s the son of his people’s chief, and he wears that hat first versus being Tia’s mate. Even after they realize they’re resonating with each other, he still says he’s going back to his people and leaving her! What! I hated that! Normally I love a level-headed MC, but I found Rem’eb’s unwillingness to consider being with Tia on the surface very irritating. (and yes, this gets resolved, but I didn’t like the journey leading up to its resolution)
-The smut was fine, it was ok. I think their relationship lacked the passion we normally see between couples on Not Hoth, and that’s probably due to a lack of chemistry. When they see each other for the first time they’re obviously attracted to each other, but aside from that I didn’t get a deep understanding of their connection. It felt weak.
-The ending for the book was really interesting and opened up so many more possibilities for future books than I initially considered when this series was announced. I’m still going to read subsequent books, but I doubt I’ll go back and reread Tia and Rem’eb’s story.
July 14, 2024
One of my anticipated release this year, and let me tell you that it didn't disappoint.
Follows the story of Tia when she got kidnapped by another set of alien, the same timeline as book 1 in the series.
We met Tia on Ice Home series, and quite frankly, she annoyed the hell out of me but she won my heart when I read her story. I didn't expect her to be so resilient, brave and with a sad back story, I was empathyzing with her. I am so glad she met Rem'eb under special circumstances. He's the son's chief and we also saw a lot of his underground world. He's kind, gentle and complements Tia in his own way.
I did understand Tia and I did understand Rem'eb and the whole plot of them being together but not sure with their future. Regardless, the problems were balanced out in a great pace with proper communication, that we are glad for them to arrive in a conclusion that made them both happy.
Ruby really did opened up a whole of new world and introduced so many aspects that I am just here for the ride.
I always love going back to this series because this is such a wonderful world that feels like a second home to me, and I can't wait for the next book.
Follows the story of Tia when she got kidnapped by another set of alien, the same timeline as book 1 in the series.
We met Tia on Ice Home series, and quite frankly, she annoyed the hell out of me but she won my heart when I read her story. I didn't expect her to be so resilient, brave and with a sad back story, I was empathyzing with her. I am so glad she met Rem'eb under special circumstances. He's the son's chief and we also saw a lot of his underground world. He's kind, gentle and complements Tia in his own way.
I did understand Tia and I did understand Rem'eb and the whole plot of them being together but not sure with their future. Regardless, the problems were balanced out in a great pace with proper communication, that we are glad for them to arrive in a conclusion that made them both happy.
Ruby really did opened up a whole of new world and introduced so many aspects that I am just here for the ride.
I always love going back to this series because this is such a wonderful world that feels like a second home to me, and I can't wait for the next book.
August 10, 2024
Quickish Review
I can’t help but check in with my favorite alien soap opera on Not-Hoth, which can be a little messy yet always entertains me. The world keeps expanding in a way I never expected but I like it. Tia always came off a bit whiny and even if I understand her better, ngl she’s still whiny. BUT she’s grown and matured and I like that’s she’s come into her own. Looking forward to the next one, as usual.
I can’t help but check in with my favorite alien soap opera on Not-Hoth, which can be a little messy yet always entertains me. The world keeps expanding in a way I never expected but I like it. Tia always came off a bit whiny and even if I understand her better, ngl she’s still whiny. BUT she’s grown and matured and I like that’s she’s come into her own. Looking forward to the next one, as usual.
August 1, 2024
3.5
I liked this pretty well! Tia and Rem'eb had good chemistry, definitely far more than previous suitors of hers. I'm loving the scene change with the ancestors, their home, and the skilled trade they have to offer to Not Hoth.
I wish we'd spent less time languishing in the "we can never be" phase, though, and used more of that pagetime on the ending resolution at the ancestors' village.
I liked this pretty well! Tia and Rem'eb had good chemistry, definitely far more than previous suitors of hers. I'm loving the scene change with the ancestors, their home, and the skilled trade they have to offer to Not Hoth.
I wish we'd spent less time languishing in the "we can never be" phase, though, and used more of that pagetime on the ending resolution at the ancestors' village.
July 23, 2024
Idk Tia had to chase this man into loving her 😩 he was willing to leave her with a kid to do "his duty". It did open the door to a whole new place, and I'm excited for that. It's not a bad, it just the fact that Tia was begging for someone to choose her first, and honestly he didn't do it
July 26, 2024
I loved Remeb. He was so sweet and determined to do the right thing even this own expense. Not so much Tia, who still is very emotionally immature.
October 1, 2024
Boring.
Poor Tia got royally crapped on by a group of awful women at Icehome; those who should have been there for her in her crucial developmental years.
Ruby Dixon inexplicably threw her own character under the bus to be used as a punching bag and vilified to satisfy some vicious need by female readers to revel in the pain and humiliation of another female, who did nothing wrong except be an emotional teenager.
The only good thing about this story is that Tia is finally away from those Icehome bitches and clone clowns.
But how very sad that women are far more abusive towards other women, in fiction and in real life.
I wish I never started this series. Such a disappointment and I do not recommend.
Poor Tia got royally crapped on by a group of awful women at Icehome; those who should have been there for her in her crucial developmental years.
Ruby Dixon inexplicably threw her own character under the bus to be used as a punching bag and vilified to satisfy some vicious need by female readers to revel in the pain and humiliation of another female, who did nothing wrong except be an emotional teenager.
The only good thing about this story is that Tia is finally away from those Icehome bitches and clone clowns.
But how very sad that women are far more abusive towards other women, in fiction and in real life.
I wish I never started this series. Such a disappointment and I do not recommend.
July 29, 2024
Characters: Tia and Rem’eb
I think I’m done with this whole series, ever since the first book I have not been liking the direction of what Ruby Dixon has been doing with this new series. I have a whole lot to say about this, so buckle up buttercups.
In the last book Tia and R’Jaal get kidnapped by the society that lives under the fruit caves (the first book in the series), a society that no one knew about until the starting of this series.
R’Jaal had immediately gotten resonance with a human clone, I felt for the female character in that book but unfortunately, I didn’t like the book.
With this one Tia was put in a different area in the underground society. None of the people knew that she was there, because the Chief was this incompetent leader who wanted to fear every little thing. He separated the males from the females, because the females had gotten sicker and a lot of them died off from this sickness years ago. Rem’eb is the Chief’s son, and he can see that his father is going through some type of depression, but they’re not doing anything to change their situation. So Tia escapes with Rem���eb and they meet up with R’Jaal and his mate and three other people from the underground society. They get out and Tia knocks Rem’eb out in the head, he’s of course upset about it when he wakes up, but forgets about it easily because they finally resonate. But throughout this whole fucking book, Rem’eb wants to go back to his society to help his people (and I completely understand that) but the constant miscommunication because she had a language chip and he didn’t, so it was this constant back and fucking forth. It drove me crazy, plus this book was so freaking boring, it wasn’t until the 70% point of the book where it started to get better.
*Let me explain about my history with Tia*:
When she first was introduced in the Icehome series, I wasn’t a fan of her character and I disliked her. Now don’t get me wrong, I can understand that years ago she was kidnapped as a teenager, we first were introduced to her when she was around 16/17 so of course teenagers are going to be a bit immature and annoying. For her she was very very immature, and she didn’t want to listen to the women at all when they had told her that she can’t flirt with these men, because they are different than human men back on earth, so the alien men didn’t understand what she was doing (because their CULTURE IS DIFFERENT!).
This seems to be a conflict within the reader base, some of the readers (like myself) felt like Tia needed to listen to the older women, and other readers wanted to infantilize Tia, because she was a teenager and what? she shouldn’t be held accountable for her actions because of her age? Get fucked!
Tia needed to be moved to Croatoan, because of how she was acting. I’m glad she was moved. Whatever behavior she had is because RUBY DIXON made the character that way.
Now that it’s been a few years since we (the reader base) has seen Tia,
I will say I did like that Tia looked like she has grown up and matured, she was still a bit immature (understandable, because she’s what, 20 now?). So I can sympathize with her character a bit more, and because she stopped with the constant flirting. Plus she was helping the others with how to make a fire and whatnot, so she was showing the things she learned, and could be helpful towards the new residents.
BUT now that she has matured enough, I didn’t like the direction of this story, I felt bad for Tia because all she wants is a man who wants her for herself, so when Rem’eb sees her and says she’s beautiful and seems to be obsessed with her, I liked seeing that for her, but his freaking duty to his stupid father really annoyed me. I can understand that he wanted to protect his people, but there needed to be a better communication to where he could tell her that he wants her there with him in the underground, and he wants her to stay to help build a better society than what they have now. None of that happened until the 85% point, but by then I just wanted the book to end.
So unfortunately, it made Tia still look a bit immature because she wanted him, but it looked like he didn’t want her enough, and then it made it to where she looked selfish and he looked noble wanting to go back to help his society.
There was a part at the 85% point where the author tried to get us (the reader) to sympathize with Tia, when Ruby Dixon should have done that towards the beginning of the book. This section here:
(“Do you know I was sent away from the Icehome tribe? I was young and I flirted with all the single guys… and they flirted back. The attention was so nice. God. For the first time I felt like the center of the universe. But then they also got jealous of each other and started fights, so I was sent away because they decided that guys that hunt and contribute were worth keeping and I wasn’t. My voice grows bitter, and I realize that yes, I’m still resentful of the entire situation. I haven’t forgotten, haven’t forgiven. “I went to Croatoan and lived with strangers, and they were so lovely and kind to me. They didn’t make me feel like I was a problem. Like I was some beach Jezebel”.
And yet they still weren’t my people. Everyone at Croatoan was friendly and wonderful, but they had all known each other for so long, had bonds together that I couldn’t possibly understand, and no matter how much they try to include me, I still felt like the odd one out. I was the only unmated woman, the only unmated person of my age, and the only stranger. No matter how I tried, I still felt like the odd one out.
It’s why I returned to Icehome. I wanted to see if it felt more like home than being at Croatoan for four years, or if I’d always feel like the one that didn’t belong.
“It was wrong of them to reject you”, Rem’eb tells me fervently. “Any male would be proud to claim you as his mate, and have you at his side”.
I shake my head. I don’t know if he’d understand about my childhood of boarding schools, of Summer camps away from home and nannies because my parents were never around. I never lacked for pretty clothes, or the newest phones. Just…attention. Affection. Maybe that’s why I need it so badly. Maybe that’s why it hurts so much when Rem’eb doesn’t see me.)
This is the point in the book where I understood her point of view, but no one in the other villages were to blame for how they treated her. They aren’t mind readers. If she would have told them that, then I’m sure they would’ve treated her a little differently. This is why communication matters the most in any book. Ruby Dixon chose not to give Tia enough depth of a character in the previous books, and this is why the fan base is so divided on how they feel about Tia.
It seems like Ruby Dixon just couldn’t give this character of Tia a proper happily ever after. It almost would have been better if someone had come down in their spaceship, and decided to take Tia with them and they dropped her off at Risda lll when she was a teenager. She could have had that time to grow up, have her own place and the custodians on that planet could have kept an eye on her. Since Risda lll is more of a farming planet, and Not Hoth isn’t really a place to start off with, especially as being a teenager. Adults being dropped there worked better, so hopefully Ruby Dixon has learned her lesson and not create a character like Tia again.
It wasn’t until the very end where I actually liked the direction of the story.
I think I’m done with this whole series, ever since the first book I have not been liking the direction of what Ruby Dixon has been doing with this new series. I have a whole lot to say about this, so buckle up buttercups.
In the last book Tia and R’Jaal get kidnapped by the society that lives under the fruit caves (the first book in the series), a society that no one knew about until the starting of this series.
R’Jaal had immediately gotten resonance with a human clone, I felt for the female character in that book but unfortunately, I didn’t like the book.
With this one Tia was put in a different area in the underground society. None of the people knew that she was there, because the Chief was this incompetent leader who wanted to fear every little thing. He separated the males from the females, because the females had gotten sicker and a lot of them died off from this sickness years ago. Rem’eb is the Chief’s son, and he can see that his father is going through some type of depression, but they’re not doing anything to change their situation. So Tia escapes with Rem���eb and they meet up with R’Jaal and his mate and three other people from the underground society. They get out and Tia knocks Rem’eb out in the head, he’s of course upset about it when he wakes up, but forgets about it easily because they finally resonate. But throughout this whole fucking book, Rem’eb wants to go back to his society to help his people (and I completely understand that) but the constant miscommunication because she had a language chip and he didn’t, so it was this constant back and fucking forth. It drove me crazy, plus this book was so freaking boring, it wasn’t until the 70% point of the book where it started to get better.
*Let me explain about my history with Tia*:
When she first was introduced in the Icehome series, I wasn’t a fan of her character and I disliked her. Now don’t get me wrong, I can understand that years ago she was kidnapped as a teenager, we first were introduced to her when she was around 16/17 so of course teenagers are going to be a bit immature and annoying. For her she was very very immature, and she didn’t want to listen to the women at all when they had told her that she can’t flirt with these men, because they are different than human men back on earth, so the alien men didn’t understand what she was doing (because their CULTURE IS DIFFERENT!).
This seems to be a conflict within the reader base, some of the readers (like myself) felt like Tia needed to listen to the older women, and other readers wanted to infantilize Tia, because she was a teenager and what? she shouldn’t be held accountable for her actions because of her age? Get fucked!
Tia needed to be moved to Croatoan, because of how she was acting. I’m glad she was moved. Whatever behavior she had is because RUBY DIXON made the character that way.
Now that it’s been a few years since we (the reader base) has seen Tia,
I will say I did like that Tia looked like she has grown up and matured, she was still a bit immature (understandable, because she’s what, 20 now?). So I can sympathize with her character a bit more, and because she stopped with the constant flirting. Plus she was helping the others with how to make a fire and whatnot, so she was showing the things she learned, and could be helpful towards the new residents.
BUT now that she has matured enough, I didn’t like the direction of this story, I felt bad for Tia because all she wants is a man who wants her for herself, so when Rem’eb sees her and says she’s beautiful and seems to be obsessed with her, I liked seeing that for her, but his freaking duty to his stupid father really annoyed me. I can understand that he wanted to protect his people, but there needed to be a better communication to where he could tell her that he wants her there with him in the underground, and he wants her to stay to help build a better society than what they have now. None of that happened until the 85% point, but by then I just wanted the book to end.
So unfortunately, it made Tia still look a bit immature because she wanted him, but it looked like he didn’t want her enough, and then it made it to where she looked selfish and he looked noble wanting to go back to help his society.
There was a part at the 85% point where the author tried to get us (the reader) to sympathize with Tia, when Ruby Dixon should have done that towards the beginning of the book. This section here:
(“Do you know I was sent away from the Icehome tribe? I was young and I flirted with all the single guys… and they flirted back. The attention was so nice. God. For the first time I felt like the center of the universe. But then they also got jealous of each other and started fights, so I was sent away because they decided that guys that hunt and contribute were worth keeping and I wasn’t. My voice grows bitter, and I realize that yes, I’m still resentful of the entire situation. I haven’t forgotten, haven’t forgiven. “I went to Croatoan and lived with strangers, and they were so lovely and kind to me. They didn’t make me feel like I was a problem. Like I was some beach Jezebel”.
And yet they still weren’t my people. Everyone at Croatoan was friendly and wonderful, but they had all known each other for so long, had bonds together that I couldn’t possibly understand, and no matter how much they try to include me, I still felt like the odd one out. I was the only unmated woman, the only unmated person of my age, and the only stranger. No matter how I tried, I still felt like the odd one out.
It’s why I returned to Icehome. I wanted to see if it felt more like home than being at Croatoan for four years, or if I’d always feel like the one that didn’t belong.
“It was wrong of them to reject you”, Rem’eb tells me fervently. “Any male would be proud to claim you as his mate, and have you at his side”.
I shake my head. I don’t know if he’d understand about my childhood of boarding schools, of Summer camps away from home and nannies because my parents were never around. I never lacked for pretty clothes, or the newest phones. Just…attention. Affection. Maybe that’s why I need it so badly. Maybe that’s why it hurts so much when Rem’eb doesn’t see me.)
This is the point in the book where I understood her point of view, but no one in the other villages were to blame for how they treated her. They aren’t mind readers. If she would have told them that, then I’m sure they would’ve treated her a little differently. This is why communication matters the most in any book. Ruby Dixon chose not to give Tia enough depth of a character in the previous books, and this is why the fan base is so divided on how they feel about Tia.
It seems like Ruby Dixon just couldn’t give this character of Tia a proper happily ever after. It almost would have been better if someone had come down in their spaceship, and decided to take Tia with them and they dropped her off at Risda lll when she was a teenager. She could have had that time to grow up, have her own place and the custodians on that planet could have kept an eye on her. Since Risda lll is more of a farming planet, and Not Hoth isn’t really a place to start off with, especially as being a teenager. Adults being dropped there worked better, so hopefully Ruby Dixon has learned her lesson and not create a character like Tia again.
It wasn’t until the very end where I actually liked the direction of the story.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 17, 2024
*****Spoilers*****
My rating is mostly because I couldn't give it more stars because Tia, just sighs. She was incredibly insecure and traumatized from her childhood when she lived on Earth and feels rejected because nobody chooses her first, including her incredibly successful and busy attorney parents who shuttled her off to school and didn't make time for her when she wasn't in school. Now, Tia is the last female left without a mate, she and another resident male on the planet who she sees as fatherly but is the only one she could potentially have a relationship with. The beginning of the book is scenes of Tia's bitterness and crying about those hurts. After she's kidnapped and taken to another settlement with a different set of native males, she feels a strong collection to Rem'eb and he to her. Rem'eb is the next in line to be his village's chief and when he sees Tia, she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen no matter that her features are different. The problem is that Rem'eb's father is hiding Tia and specifically wants her for his son to resonante with so that their familial line will continue. Rem'eb thinks what his father is trying to force is wrong, and although he knows Tia is his mate without the resonance, he wants to take her home. However, with a language barrier, he can't understand her but she can understand him since she has a language implant, Rem'eb can tell Tia his intentions but is unable to easily figure out what Tia is requesting. They're able to make certain things out here and there but it's far from serviceable communication.
The rest of the book is Tia planning to run off even though she doesn't know where she is, if she could just slip past her guard she's certain she can figure things out. In the meantime, we get her bad attitude, snarky barbs, and selfishness. The last is understandable given her hangups but still seemed over the top. There's some indication that Tia wasn't a fan favorite with her flirting and kissing the males in some of the other books in the series but I didn't read those so I'm not sure what exactly that looked like. In any case, after Rem'eb gets Tia out of his village, she knocks him out and gets their traveling companions from his village to tie him up and haul him along with her to the other camp she was taken from. Tia is determined to make Rem'eb choose her over his responsibility to his village and the resonance begins between them just in time for her to have leverage to accomplish her goals.
In the end, Tia and Rem'eb figure their stuff out, can understand one another, and let the joys of resonance take them away. Communication is solved and they end up going back to Rem'eb's village together. Simple solution all along except Tia was waiting for Rem'eb to tell her that he wanted her with him. Sighs. All in all, it's okay but grit your teeth through Tia moments.
My rating is mostly because I couldn't give it more stars because Tia, just sighs. She was incredibly insecure and traumatized from her childhood when she lived on Earth and feels rejected because nobody chooses her first, including her incredibly successful and busy attorney parents who shuttled her off to school and didn't make time for her when she wasn't in school. Now, Tia is the last female left without a mate, she and another resident male on the planet who she sees as fatherly but is the only one she could potentially have a relationship with. The beginning of the book is scenes of Tia's bitterness and crying about those hurts. After she's kidnapped and taken to another settlement with a different set of native males, she feels a strong collection to Rem'eb and he to her. Rem'eb is the next in line to be his village's chief and when he sees Tia, she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen no matter that her features are different. The problem is that Rem'eb's father is hiding Tia and specifically wants her for his son to resonante with so that their familial line will continue. Rem'eb thinks what his father is trying to force is wrong, and although he knows Tia is his mate without the resonance, he wants to take her home. However, with a language barrier, he can't understand her but she can understand him since she has a language implant, Rem'eb can tell Tia his intentions but is unable to easily figure out what Tia is requesting. They're able to make certain things out here and there but it's far from serviceable communication.
The rest of the book is Tia planning to run off even though she doesn't know where she is, if she could just slip past her guard she's certain she can figure things out. In the meantime, we get her bad attitude, snarky barbs, and selfishness. The last is understandable given her hangups but still seemed over the top. There's some indication that Tia wasn't a fan favorite with her flirting and kissing the males in some of the other books in the series but I didn't read those so I'm not sure what exactly that looked like. In any case, after Rem'eb gets Tia out of his village, she knocks him out and gets their traveling companions from his village to tie him up and haul him along with her to the other camp she was taken from. Tia is determined to make Rem'eb choose her over his responsibility to his village and the resonance begins between them just in time for her to have leverage to accomplish her goals.
In the end, Tia and Rem'eb figure their stuff out, can understand one another, and let the joys of resonance take them away. Communication is solved and they end up going back to Rem'eb's village together. Simple solution all along except Tia was waiting for Rem'eb to tell her that he wanted her with him. Sighs. All in all, it's okay but grit your teeth through Tia moments.
July 17, 2024
Oh Tia, one of the longest hold outs on the Ice planet and not for a lack of trying. Honestly I was not looking forward to her book given her characters behaviors in the past. If not for a new group of people to emerge, from all places the fruit cave, I probably would not have dived in on release day. Luckily Tia won me over and she got her own man finally. Figures it wouldn't even be one of the men she strung along on the beach. I will admit I was getting frustrated about how she kept assuming he was going to leave her. Like girl, you never had a problem opening your mouth before, why start now? Finally she lets him know she'll go with him and it was just another annoying moment where characters needed to simply have a conversation like the adults they are trying to be.
When it comes to Rem'eb I really liked him. He was sweet and just wanted the best for his people. I was hoping we got to see him in a stronger role at home as the new king but I imagine this won't be the last we see of these two. Not only does resonance happen, there's now a whole new community of people to keep this series going. I'm so happy the walls separating his people came down because that whole concept was ridiculous and never should have gone on long as it did. I can't wait to explore more of this underworld cavern system.
When it comes to Rem'eb I really liked him. He was sweet and just wanted the best for his people. I was hoping we got to see him in a stronger role at home as the new king but I imagine this won't be the last we see of these two. Not only does resonance happen, there's now a whole new community of people to keep this series going. I'm so happy the walls separating his people came down because that whole concept was ridiculous and never should have gone on long as it did. I can't wait to explore more of this underworld cavern system.
July 14, 2024
Aaah she's done it again! Lovely to be back in this part of the universe and see the lore unfold even more. This book had me laughing, crying and fanning myself all the way through. And ooooh how exciting to be introduced to some new anatomy 😏
Not sure if it's possible but I feel like ice planet clones might surpass both IPB and Icehome with lore and expanding this universe now that we have the clones, the OGs AND this whole new underground society. Eeeek I'm excited 🤸🏾♀️
Not sure if it's possible but I feel like ice planet clones might surpass both IPB and Icehome with lore and expanding this universe now that we have the clones, the OGs AND this whole new underground society. Eeeek I'm excited 🤸🏾♀️
July 15, 2024
My brain is a better place after I read these books. I honestly really enjoyed Tia & Rem’eb. I loved their dynamic as a couple because they really fit one another. I also enjoyed the expansion of not-hoth. I’m more excited about the ancestors and their potential than the taters (thank you Liz for coining that term). I really want to read about the 2 brothers and see how they’re developing above ground and I’m also extremely excited to see if the ancestors decide to travel up top to meet some clones.
July 17, 2024
This makes me so excited for what will come in future for this series!!!
August 16, 2024
I love my little ice planet friends.
July 22, 2024
This one was disappointing.
As an avid IPB fan, I usually love anything and everything that Ruby puts out, but this one was just not it.
In the last book, Ruby had said how she put off writing Tia’s story and not feeling a connection to the character, and man was that evident here. Tia’s character felt like a watered down version of Bridget, but where I wanted her to play into Tia’s flirtiness and sass, she watered her down, as if to make her more palatable? But not all FLs need to be the same carbon copy FL, with the same likeable personality traits, and this whole story really felt like a missed opportunity.
I love a bratty FL. I was really looking forward to this book and seeing that get played out with a new batch of aliens, but instead Ruby favored completely ripping out Tia’s existing characteristics and replacing them with a copy of every other FL we have had so far on Not-Hoth.
Please, Ruby. I’m begging you here, give us a wildly unlikeable FL, and LEAVE HER UNLIKEABLE. I’m talking A’tam and Skarr levels here, where a huge chunk of the book revolves around her character arc and actually growing as a person. We don’t need a picture perfect, instantly relatable FL every time. Change is good, trust me. And by that I don’t just mean throwing in a new brand of aliens.
As an avid IPB fan, I usually love anything and everything that Ruby puts out, but this one was just not it.
In the last book, Ruby had said how she put off writing Tia’s story and not feeling a connection to the character, and man was that evident here. Tia’s character felt like a watered down version of Bridget, but where I wanted her to play into Tia’s flirtiness and sass, she watered her down, as if to make her more palatable? But not all FLs need to be the same carbon copy FL, with the same likeable personality traits, and this whole story really felt like a missed opportunity.
I love a bratty FL. I was really looking forward to this book and seeing that get played out with a new batch of aliens, but instead Ruby favored completely ripping out Tia’s existing characteristics and replacing them with a copy of every other FL we have had so far on Not-Hoth.
Please, Ruby. I’m begging you here, give us a wildly unlikeable FL, and LEAVE HER UNLIKEABLE. I’m talking A’tam and Skarr levels here, where a huge chunk of the book revolves around her character arc and actually growing as a person. We don’t need a picture perfect, instantly relatable FL every time. Change is good, trust me. And by that I don’t just mean throwing in a new brand of aliens.
July 27, 2024
The drama, the romance and the politics - chefs kiss
July 28, 2024
I didn’t like Tia before and nothing has changed.
Maybe it was just me but holy shit Tia’s inner monologue was tedious..
I can usually read anything Ice Planet related in a day this book took me a week…
There was practically no information about the underground dwellers and Tia was as she has always been bratty and insufferable.
Maybe it was just me but holy shit Tia’s inner monologue was tedious..
I can usually read anything Ice Planet related in a day this book took me a week…
There was practically no information about the underground dwellers and Tia was as she has always been bratty and insufferable.
July 15, 2024
really didn’t like it
For me… and this is my opinion!!! I hated every second of it. Can’t stand Tia never have liked her when she popped up in Flors book.
Don’t care that she was a teenager, don’t care what other excuses people come up with for her, I cannot stand her.
So glad it’s over!
I have loved all the other books some more then others obviously but this has to be the worst for me 😩😩
For me… and this is my opinion!!! I hated every second of it. Can’t stand Tia never have liked her when she popped up in Flors book.
Don’t care that she was a teenager, don’t care what other excuses people come up with for her, I cannot stand her.
So glad it’s over!
I have loved all the other books some more then others obviously but this has to be the worst for me 😩😩
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