Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Barbarian's Prize by Ruby Dixon

11 reviews

badgerceereads's review

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I enjoyed the book. Had some emotional feelings towards it all and all would recommend and now I must hunt down the story about Josie 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Sexual assault

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

ninahuynh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I've gotta say, I can see why people love this book's couple!

Salukh and Tiffany are so cute together. Salukh being patient and slow with Tiffany, letting her take the lead and meeting her where is most comfortable with at the moment, giving her the space she needs. His understanding of her trauma and willingness to put her pleasure before his.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness

tinkerswiftie's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I ended up liking Tiffany way more than I expected. She has so many layers and is so scared but I loved how gently she is loved. 🥹 This was a sweet story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stalking

roziereads's review

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Excrement

mbasford's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief and Pregnancy

kloughlin's review

emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Rape

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

bbygirl21's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really love Salukh and Tiffany. I love how Salukh respects Tiffany's boundaries and doesn't push her like the other unmated hunters do. It really shows that he actually cares about Tiffany as a person and not as some prize he has to win. I really didn't like the way the other unmated hunters treated Tiffany and how violent they become towards each other when they don't receive the reaction from Tiffany they want.

With Salukh it's different. Even before Tiffany let's Salukh know what happened to her to cause her bad reactions around the alien men he never pushed her to be with him, he showed compassion and empathy and understood that Tiffany needed more care. And I like how when he does find out what happened to her he protects her from the other guys. 

I also really liked be the way that Tiffany and Salukh finally resonate to each other. I love that they get to choose each other before they even know whether they'll be actual mates. 

I really enjoy it when the couples get to choose who they want before the actual resonating happens. I feel like it gives the characters more of a chance to connect and bond. And this book gives us that.

Overall this was a really great book in the series. And another one that I'd recommend looking up the trigger warnings for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

listened to audiobook and the poor voice actors have run out of voices long ago...

i just was personally not interested in this love plot (rape victim working through that to trust someone with intimacy again)
ruby writes sexual violence with such tone-deafness that it makes anything involving that so rough to read.

“I’ve had sex, both willingly and unwillingly” - Tiffany

horrific way to word that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

robinsong's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Abandonment

sam019's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping