![]() ![]() Nevermind personalities or preferences or anything that shallow. It also decided who their “mate” will be by resonating with the member of the opposite sex with whom they are the best generic match to create healthy offspring. In order to survive on the ice planet, humans have to act as a symbiotic host to another organism that helps their bodies function more efficiently. I’m not certain if this was an intentional choice by Dixon, or if just didn’t even register with them that they were taking that away. ![]() The rules the author establishes for the world essentially take any kind of valid consent out of the equation. I can say least give Dominique the courtesy of including her name here. She’s barely named, but they spend several paragraphs describing her ordeal, why it happened to her, and what she could have done differently to avoid having that experience. There is a graphic gang rape of what in tv would be called an extra in the first 20 pages. Because, honestly, this book needs trigger and/or caution warnings all over the place. I have been unable to get it to display with that tag now that I’ve read it, which makes me wonder if there was a glitch or if I only imagined it. ![]() I picked up Ice Road Barbarians by Ruby Dixon on Kindle Unlimited because the listing was flagged as “Number 1 in Romantic Comedy” and since it’s obviously sci-fi, I thought it might be a delightful bit of space camp à là Spaceballs. ![]()
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