Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

35 reviews

kb33's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Entertaining and short. The world building was definitely there, but the length of the book was short because it touched but didn't delve into some topics that would make the book a lot darker - like Georgie's worry about the family and friends she left behind, or thoughts of returning home. 

CW/TW: the rape scene is in the beginning, was easy to skip over, and then was only mentioned a few times. This topic was not written about in depth after it occurred on page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Confinement, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Trafficking, Rape, Sexual content, Animal death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Suicide

fishreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

2.75

Let's be honest, this is a great introduction to a fun series about blue skinned aliens mating with humans who were "lucky" enough to get stranded on a frozen ice planet in the middle of nowhere, after they were initially being kidnapped and abused by different sets of aliens. But as romance between Georgie, one of the abducted women and de facto leader of the group, and Vektal, an actual leader of the blue skinned aliens, it was somewhat boring relying too much on sex scenes between characters for my taste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Kidnapping, Rape, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Abortion

kylasmv15's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Excrement, Gore, Pregnancy, and Violence

zoevjester's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

This book needs to be longer, but this series is 21 books deep so I'll let that go. 
Also, this book contains topics that I'm not comfortable reading so that's why it's marked lower.
But Georgie is great and Vektal is a cinnamon roll.  Will be continuing the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Confinement, Trafficking, Death, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical content

m_lee's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Abortion, Vomit, Confinement, Animal death, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Death, Child death, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Gore, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Blood, Grief, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Murder, Infertility, and Animal death

e11e_reads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Confinement

Minor: Rape, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, Trafficking, and Excrement

lifeonasofa's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.5 stars

Why did I enjoy this book? 😅

✨ Spoilers ✨
I mean there were things I didn’t enjoy. I’d recommend skipping THAT scene right at the start (it destroys the tone of the book - checks TWs). There’s insta love, a pregnancy trope and it’s all around a bit weird. 🤔

But, I couldn’t help but speed read this in a day. It was quite refreshing after some pretty heavy chunky reads. I’ve never read anything like it. Turns out alien smut isn’t a total no - who knew? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also shout out to the illustrator of these covers - absolutely stunning 🏔️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Excrement, Animal death, Body shaming, and Pregnancy

thewellreadlabrador's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

lcronin0815's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

This book made me realize that I am living my best cliche middle aged white lady life with my glass of wine and spicy book and I couldn’t be happier. I loved it :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death and Animal death

crinkledmochi's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

UM…. no thoughts, head empty 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Torture, Body horror, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Trafficking