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Ice Planet Barbarians #19.5
Barbarian's Treat
The brutal season is underway and the sa-khui tribe needs a break. What better way to shake things up than to celebrate another one of those strange human holidays?
Claire suggests that Croatoan’s people enjoy Halloween, and the fun begins as everyone joins in. There are costumes! Vegetable carvings! An ice maze! And a surprise for a beloved couple.
This novella features fluff, fluff and more fluff. It’s just some happy holiday fun and involves no dramatic plot lines.
Claire suggests that Croatoan’s people enjoy Halloween, and the fun begins as everyone joins in. There are costumes! Vegetable carvings! An ice maze! And a surprise for a beloved couple.
This novella features fluff, fluff and more fluff. It’s just some happy holiday fun and involves no dramatic plot lines.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 25, 2024
About the author
Ruby Dixon
165 books20.9k 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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October 30, 2024
Ok this was cute and just pure fluff! I miss my IPB OGs and this gave me a little slice of “Treat Day” with a lot of them. This is a cutie little Halloween novella with our favorites on Not-Hoth!
Getting a little check in with the sa-khui tribe always makes me happy! Claire is missing holidays and thinking of Halloween so she decides to propose another fun holiday for the tribe. We get costumes, an ice maze, vegetable carvings, and Halloween-inspired fun on Not-Hoth! We get POV moments from so many: Claire, Georgie, Asha, Tiffany, Stacy, Joden, Josie, Maddie, Haeden, Vektal. Super cute, super fluffy novella on KU.
Getting a little check in with the sa-khui tribe always makes me happy! Claire is missing holidays and thinking of Halloween so she decides to propose another fun holiday for the tribe. We get costumes, an ice maze, vegetable carvings, and Halloween-inspired fun on Not-Hoth! We get POV moments from so many: Claire, Georgie, Asha, Tiffany, Stacy, Joden, Josie, Maddie, Haeden, Vektal. Super cute, super fluffy novella on KU.
October 23, 2024
I loved revisiting the original crew
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October 31, 2025Thank you for the gift, Tropical Jingle Miraclewrap!!
October 28, 2024
I haven’t read ALL of this universe but I had to read this when I saw the extremely cute cover art. Like come on all the kids dressed up? Gimmie!
This was sooo cute and full of fluff. Def a lot of “spoilers” if you haven’t read more than the first couple books but so worth it.
I could legit read a million of these fluffy novellas they’re like a little slice of life sitcom episode - I’m obsessed.
the crossover hint at the end - also GIMMIE
This was sooo cute and full of fluff. Def a lot of “spoilers” if you haven’t read more than the first couple books but so worth it.
I could legit read a million of these fluffy novellas they’re like a little slice of life sitcom episode - I’m obsessed.
the crossover hint at the end - also GIMMIE
November 2, 2024
This was a cute little Novella that made it nice to return to the OG crew of the IPB world
October 30, 2025
Cute, fluffy Halloween themed fun with the blue aliens on the ice planet.
Perfect little novella
Perfect little novella
October 29, 2024
****THE KITS ARE GROWN UPS****
Omg! Thanks, Ruby, for giving us this treat (pun intended) haha I loved the kits and the men. Their still clueless lol and the kits are adorable and growing up so fast.
Omg! Thanks, Ruby, for giving us this treat (pun intended) haha I loved the kits and the men. Their still clueless lol and the kits are adorable and growing up so fast.
November 27, 2024
Perfect Fluff!
The Croatoan village has grown so much while the Risdaverse has been at the beach, and they're diving head first into a new holiday to beat the brutal season- Halloween! It's up to the human women to figure out how to combine Halloween costumes (where there isn't exactly a Spirit or Party City down the road) and manage to make tons of sweet treats from seeds and berries, and cakes from more seeds and berries (it's an ice planet). Jack o lanterns are now not-potatoes, and caramel apples are replaced with seedy sweet goo that is near the real thing. Even the kids are on it, giving their moms their perfect idea for a costume to go along with the 'scary' traditions!
So grab your half human, half sa-khui, round them up for a costume contest that will impress any DiYer, and head into the snow maze to work off that energy!!
It's time for Treat Day on Not-Hoth!
I loved every page of this, but I am partially biased- anything to do with Halloween, and I'm yours.
I absolutely loved that there wasn't a single moment that wasn't solved by the next chapter or two (if only in life!). The kids had fun, the parents had fun, and everyone went to bed happy, healthy, and full of sweet treats and memories. I especially loved how much of a voice each of the kids got (they used to be babies! They have opinions now! Aww!!), and the unique way each human parent went about figuring costumes (I wish I could see some of them in real life. SO cute)
I do even like the minor tension one couple deals with (solved by the end! So relaxing!), which gave the novella depth.
In these trying times, I beg of Ruby to give us more! More!!!
The Croatoan village has grown so much while the Risdaverse has been at the beach, and they're diving head first into a new holiday to beat the brutal season- Halloween! It's up to the human women to figure out how to combine Halloween costumes (where there isn't exactly a Spirit or Party City down the road) and manage to make tons of sweet treats from seeds and berries, and cakes from more seeds and berries (it's an ice planet). Jack o lanterns are now not-potatoes, and caramel apples are replaced with seedy sweet goo that is near the real thing. Even the kids are on it, giving their moms their perfect idea for a costume to go along with the 'scary' traditions!
So grab your half human, half sa-khui, round them up for a costume contest that will impress any DiYer, and head into the snow maze to work off that energy!!
It's time for Treat Day on Not-Hoth!
I loved every page of this, but I am partially biased- anything to do with Halloween, and I'm yours.
I absolutely loved that there wasn't a single moment that wasn't solved by the next chapter or two (if only in life!). The kids had fun, the parents had fun, and everyone went to bed happy, healthy, and full of sweet treats and memories. I especially loved how much of a voice each of the kids got (they used to be babies! They have opinions now! Aww!!), and the unique way each human parent went about figuring costumes (I wish I could see some of them in real life. SO cute)
I do even like the minor tension one couple deals with (solved by the end! So relaxing!), which gave the novella depth.
In these trying times, I beg of Ruby to give us more! More!!!
October 27, 2024
What does Halloween look like in this Ice Planet? Different but just as fun. It was so nice to visit with the OG crew and see all the grown up kits. I wish Rahoosh and Liz were present. I would have loved Rahoosh to have the craziest girl dad costume. This was super fun and cute. A lovely read for fans of the series.
December 3, 2024
Awe! So cute!!! I love these novellas! I love getting to see a glimpse in the life of the OG crew and each POV of a person makes me miss them! I love that we got to see the kids and how much they grown. So cute!!! The Halloween theme is cute and how it brought the whole community together a big family.
October 30, 2024
THE COVER? SO CUTE.
Fluffy, Halloween Barbarian fun on Not-Hoth. I loved revisiting my fav characters from IPB and seeing what they're up to, ten years later. This was a nice little surprise to stumble on in KindleUnlimited.
Fluffy, Halloween Barbarian fun on Not-Hoth. I loved revisiting my fav characters from IPB and seeing what they're up to, ten years later. This was a nice little surprise to stumble on in KindleUnlimited.
October 29, 2024
Such a cute fluffy novella!!! I'm so happy we got to see a lot more of the kids! ❤️
November 2, 2024
aw that's so cute and non-spicy. love it.
November 13, 2024
Another fluffy little story between stories. Per usual I loved it, even if I'm getting to the point where I can't remember who everyone is.
November 29, 2024
Nice to catch up with the OG IPB crew!
November 4, 2025
this was a really cute little short story! i loved getting to draw out the halloween vibes a bit longer, and it was nice to be able to see some of the OG characters & their adorable kiddos!
July 21, 2026
A very cute and sweet little novella!
November 13, 2024
Loved revisiting the og crew
November 20, 2024
Cute little Halloween book. I love anything IPB/IceHome/Clones so I had to order it. I got really busy and missed reading it for Halloween but still cute for fall.
October 25, 2024
Cute Halloween short story. We get to visit nearly everyone from IPB. There is mention of folks at Icehome. You get usual flirtations and romance, but no steam from Ruby in this one.
April 3, 2025
Poor Vektal developing social anxiety symptoms. I relate.
November 11, 2024
Cute Halloween themed visit with our Croatan friends.
September 29, 2025
Ate it up!
November 24, 2024
This Novella really was a treat!
It was so lovely to return to Croatoan, and catch up with the OGs!
There were cute misunderstandings (as there always are with the blue boys), some adorable moments with the kits, a hint maybe?) of a next gen spin off, some swoony romance and a new (second) resonance! All of which had me kicking my feet with glee!
Just what I needed to pull me out of my reading slump!
It was so lovely to return to Croatoan, and catch up with the OGs!
There were cute misunderstandings (as there always are with the blue boys), some adorable moments with the kits, a hint maybe?) of a next gen spin off, some swoony romance and a new (second) resonance! All of which had me kicking my feet with glee!
Just what I needed to pull me out of my reading slump!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 17, 2026
Cute, fluff.
April 2, 2026
These alien kids are so stinking cute I just want to squish them. We have some adult POVs between Georgie, Vektal, Claire, Haeden, Tiffany, and Kate. Then we get a POV for sweet baby Joden!! A kid POV for the first time!! It was so cute I loved it. Loved the Halloween energy. Loved it all, cute stuff. Plus we get another resonance! I like seeing where the OG ice planet crew is at these days so that part is always nice! Spice was mild, short story so like 🌶️🌶️
November 22, 2025
4 stars
I love this world.
I love this world.
May 12, 2025
Ha sido como volver a casa, me encanta este universo, estos personajes y está ambientación. Estaría feliz leyendo 20 libros de IPB al año, esta autora es mi lugar seguro.
May 15, 2026
This was pretty adorable, and it's not often a series gets a Halloween special so this was fun and a good look back at the original IPB crew.
While rereading the Ice Planet Barbarian series, I wanted to look at the short stories I missed because they're not part of Amazon's suggested order, so I used an IPB reading order list to fill in the gaps which involved getting stories from the Ruby Dixon website and signing up for the newsletter so I could download the 2021 advent calendar stories, which is the only way to read Josie's Wish.
These stories are absolutely not required reading for the main series. In fact it's largely fluff and only exists to fill the world in a bit more and check in on past couples, those couples usually involve Claire and Erevan who never had their own full length novel and got together in between books in Ice Planet Holiday, the birth place of no-poison day, a holiday that shows up sometimes in the main series, but dominates these short stories.
Overall, this was a nice little reprieve but the sheer amount of jumping around and searching I had to do means it's unlikely I'll read some of these again, it's definitely easier when the books are on Amazon, but this is what happens when you end up having to pull and compile from Facebook as your source and most of these are too short for even an eBook, like the Bedtime Stories series.
While rereading the Ice Planet Barbarian series, I wanted to look at the short stories I missed because they're not part of Amazon's suggested order, so I used an IPB reading order list to fill in the gaps which involved getting stories from the Ruby Dixon website and signing up for the newsletter so I could download the 2021 advent calendar stories, which is the only way to read Josie's Wish.
These stories are absolutely not required reading for the main series. In fact it's largely fluff and only exists to fill the world in a bit more and check in on past couples, those couples usually involve Claire and Erevan who never had their own full length novel and got together in between books in Ice Planet Holiday, the birth place of no-poison day, a holiday that shows up sometimes in the main series, but dominates these short stories.
Overall, this was a nice little reprieve but the sheer amount of jumping around and searching I had to do means it's unlikely I'll read some of these again, it's definitely easier when the books are on Amazon, but this is what happens when you end up having to pull and compile from Facebook as your source and most of these are too short for even an eBook, like the Bedtime Stories series.
November 9, 2024
Took me way longer than it should have to read. I have just been in an odd reading mood this whole year.
This was one of the better slice of life novellas, it was told from many POVs, some we haven’t seen in a long time. It was great to revisit some of these characters and see their kids. I do wish the children were more involved in the universe as a whole, but this novella did a great job of showing us who they are.
I found a few things odd, like ask Vektal permission to celebrate a human holiday, that many if the humans did seem to have a clue about Halloween, one character even comments on how nothing matters if it’s correct or not as nobody there knows what Halloween is. But nearly half of the adult population is human, western humans who oiled be aware of the significance of the holiday.
I would have like to have seen the IceHome crew invited. I can see them becoming their on society since there is very little mingling between the two groups. They’re becoming two separate tribes.
This was one of the better slice of life novellas, it was told from many POVs, some we haven’t seen in a long time. It was great to revisit some of these characters and see their kids. I do wish the children were more involved in the universe as a whole, but this novella did a great job of showing us who they are.
I found a few things odd, like ask Vektal permission to celebrate a human holiday, that many if the humans did seem to have a clue about Halloween, one character even comments on how nothing matters if it’s correct or not as nobody there knows what Halloween is. But nearly half of the adult population is human, western humans who oiled be aware of the significance of the holiday.
I would have like to have seen the IceHome crew invited. I can see them becoming their on society since there is very little mingling between the two groups. They’re becoming two separate tribes.
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