The Barbarian Before Christmas (multiple)Įach book is around 200 pages, so they aren’t long reads by any means.The main books in the series (and the ones I read) were: Others that happen later in the series, focus on different aspects of their relationships or times in the tribe’s lives. So, each story tells how they paired off with their romantic partner. Compared to waiting around for their original captors and death, they agree. And the tribe that finds the women are basically down to only unmated males, so the women have to agree to become their potential wives in order for food, shelter, and life. In a trade-off, it heals the host and allows them to handle the air and extreme temperatures. Like a matchmaker that doesn’t take no for an answer.

The khui (which many of the humans call cooties) decides when you get pregnant and who gets you pregnant. Without a symbiotic called the khui, anyone on the planet only has maybe eight days to live before they die. Not to mention the animals on the planet are aggressive and deadly, and the air is toxic. It’s negative temperatures and snow every day of the year. The weather conditions are extremely harsh.

Their ships crash land on an ice planet where another species that crashed landed hundreds of years ago live. As things mentioned in the books wouldn’t make sense completely if you didn’t read the previous ones.īasically, the premise of the series is a bunch of women in their early twenties are kidnapped. So, you can’t go out of order while reading them. Some of them overlap, while others take place a while after the first one. So while the same characters appear in all the books, they each have one book that is theirs that takes place at various times. Each book in the series takes place from a different couple’s perspective. I did not read the short stories mostly as they were add-ons that explore things that already happened in the main series but from another character’s perspective. There are 22 full books and several short stories. I decided to read the first book of this sci-fi romance series and couldn’t stop reading through to the rest. So, when I saw Ice Planet Barbarians all over TikTok, initially I was like “thanks but no thanks.” And then I don’t know what got me to change my mind.

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