Reviews with content warning for Pregnancy - Ice Planet Barbarians

This book was addicting but it was hard to start the first 60 pages or so had many topics that made me feel uncomfortable for instance rape more than once detailed and not, and a forced abortion on one woman, these topics do not last particularly long but bothered me enough to almost not finish the book. Past those pages the book was pretty good the equivlant of a b rated movie you can't stop watching. It feels like a wattpad story on paper in some aspects. I would recommend this book for the smut alone but the plot had to many potholes to be recommended for storyline. I will say I do want to buy some more of the series so success to the author I guess.

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mer_randa's review against another edition

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mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

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hotwaterbottle's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

More than a little ridiculous, but solid smut. Novel concept for the world/alien culture. I was surprised by khui being

a symbiote required to survive

, as the idea of

being permanently stuck on the ice planet in exchange for survival

was darker than I expected. I didn't love some of the other implications of khui/the background horror of

all of the women stuck in the planet who don't get doting alien boyfriends and a parasite that makes them into that,

but I also feel like I can't be too picky for what this is.

This edition includes the main novella as well as a "bonus epilogue" and one short story. The epilogue was the weakest of the bunch, as it struggled to convince me that Georgie

has a capacity to learn new, non-sexual, skills.

According to the author's note at the end of the book, this edition removes details of a

violent rape

at the beginning of the book. I honestly thought it was still a bit much, so I'm glad I read this edition instead of the original.

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puppytrixie5's review against another edition

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adventurous 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? No

3.75

Its rather good and a quick read too.

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maddie_can_read's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Really exceeded my expectations. I borrowed it from the library out of curiosity and I thought it was going to be really bad / goofy / cringe-y.

There's an actual plot in addition to all the sex scenes and I thought it was really well written for this type of book. It was funny and felt grounded in the world building. The SciFi elements were well done. The tension and stakes were good as well. Also the audiobook acting was really good!

Fyi when I rate books I only take points away when something bothered me about the book/ I think it should've done something differently/ there was something about it I didn't enjoy. So in my opinion this is a 5/5 because I didn't have any notes for doing any of it differently and I enjoyed reading it.

Trigger warning

there's one short disturbing, rape scene at the beginning rape by "bad aliens" not the titular ice planet barbarians.

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