Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

45 reviews

witcheep's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.0

Reading this book is a way to get time to pass. I picked up this book expecting some smut, but there's barely any plot beyond "oh god this alien is strange and hot" -smut. The concept of fated mates is strong in this book. I guess there is some potential plot intrique of getting to know a foreign surrounding and culture in a kidnap escapee situation, but really, if smut is not your thing, you won't get anything out of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

notbambi's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

TLDR: Silly and sexy and dumb in all the right ways. Like cotton candy in book form. 

Other than the rape in the first chapter, which seems to be a misguided attempt to establish stakes, this is a goofy, fluffy, funny little novel that is exactly what you would expect from the cover and title. Human women get stranded on ice planet, one of them gets picked up by a 7-foot-tall blue alien who sees her as his mate, hilarity and sexual escapades ensue. 

The locals have very few women, so they're thrilled, which could have gone in a terrible direction, but they're all very respectful and consenty and concerned that their ladies are probably going to die because they're so soft and weak. It's a species of Wife Guys, but like, in a good way. 

I'm not super into the pregnancy angle at the end or the fact that the main pair are scientifically fated to be mated, but again, the book is generally so silly and such an obvious fantasy that it's hard to be mad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Another book that I saw raved upon on social media and was weary to start. I was averse to the idea of aliens and what that entails, but the aliens' similarities to human bodies made it not as gross as I anticipated. As someone who does not read sci-fi, the sci-fi elements in this book was fascinating. It was quite intense in the first chapter with the

rape scene and torture-like environment.

I understand

why Vektal and the male sa'qwi (not sure how it's spelled as I listened to the book) are overly enthused at the word of female humans , but it did feel weird.

I like the realistic-ness of body hair on Georgie's body. The third nipple is funny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

inkysplodge's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

as a mostly sex repulsed ace, i'm annoyed that i liked this lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Death, Violence, and Abortion

abortion is mentioned having happened in the beginning of the book to a minor character and

is forced/against her will.

caprivoyant's review against another edition

Are y'all ok??? That was horrible. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

There's a graphic rape scene in the beginning, but there's an additional sexual assault

when the MCs first meet — there's no consent, and

that's not TRULY addressed in these pages at all. It's mentioned again later... But there are no emotions about it. Even later,

there are mentions of Georgie wanting to make sure the other girls' "no"s will be respected if they say no. Vektal can't imagine that ever not happening... But, again, he didn't get a yes when he first "meets" Georgie. So.

Also want to speak to ableism tag above directly because I'm not seeing it in other reviews: someone "deformed" shouldn't feel any more "lucky" to be desired sexually than any one else.

thats_so_raychell's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

dovahkiin_shea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Blood, and Vomit

tinkerswiftie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I reluctantly tried this because it was on audible plus and I knew it was popular on BookTok. Why not? I feel like I went down the Sci-Fi version of Alice’s rabbit hole. I’m my mad about it either 😏🤪

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Cursing and Abandonment

art_books_chemistry's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore and Pregnancy

Minor: Excrement and Abortion

ursium's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

honestly, this book was very fun… like yes its alien smut but its written in a fun way and the world was actually pretty interesting? 🤔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, and Excrement