Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

52 reviews

ee1000's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I’ve heard people mention this book quite a bit, and honestly it does live up to the hype. I don’t know how I expected the book to start, but the beginning was shocking, interesting, and I appreciated how quickly you’re thrown into the action. 

The romance is intense and as plentiful as you expect, and I did love seeing how the groups have integrated together. 

Probably will pick up the rest of the series eventually!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Abortion

cuffnela's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death, Rape, Trafficking, and Abortion

Minor: Animal death, Murder, and Pregnancy

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

geooo's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Rape

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, Blood, and Pregnancy

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.

hippie_raccoon's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.25

Honestly I felt like it was a bit over hyped?

I definitely could have done without the rape when initially kidnapped.

it was.... Fine. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

booksnart2023's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death, Rape, Excrement, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

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

sunshine_day's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved everything about this book! I have never in my life. Read a book that was this short, but had this level of world building and character development. Plus, I haven't laughed that hard in such a long time.

5 - ⭐ 
3 - 🌶️ 
5 - 😂 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy