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sunshinesusan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Rape and Kidnapping
Moderate: Death
Minor: Animal death
notamouse's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
klsreads's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Excrement, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Vomit
picaresquedreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Grief
alex_baker's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The sex scenes were...not my cup of tea. They were very...you know when you are making fun of bad heterosexual erotica and how to guy has a 20ft dick and the woman orgasms in 2 seconds? That's what it seemed to be.
Also, I'm assuming this is a fault of the platform I listened to the audiobook (spotify) and not the actual book, but content warnings were not read. Which meant that in the first chunk of the book, I was suddenly thrust into a r*pe scene of a background character by, for lack of a better term, prison guard. I was not prepared AT ALL for that and although it didn't go into much detail--it was still a jarring scene to listen to when doing my dishes!
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
art_books_chemistry's review against another edition
- 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
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
swolerabbit's review against another edition
5.0
but holy shit. i had such a fun time.
anyone reviewing this like it’s meant to be incredibly serious mind-blowing sci-fi literature is missing the point.
this is just a silly goofy time.
bonus points for endless star wars references. it’s what george would want.
Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Infertility, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
kb33's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
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.
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Sexual content, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Blood and Vomit
Minor: Suicide and Abortion
fishreads's review against another edition
- 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
The beginning of the book is horrifying as the main character Georgie wakes up in the cargo hold of an alien ship to realize she's been abducted by little green men with a bunch of other girls and witnesses a rape of another female captive by orange aliens who serve as the muscle to their captors.
<blockquote>We’re nothing but cattle to these things. They’re going to sell us to someone else to rape, to eat, or both. Or something else more horrible that I can’t even imagine.</blockquote>
Almost immediately Georgie and Liz, a fellow captive, start hatching up an escape plan which coincides with alien ship experiencing issues and dropping "the cargo" to a safe location to be picked up later.
Georgie, as their de facto chosen leader, ventures out in the cold in order to try to find help. It is only by luck that she wanders into one of the traps and the planet native, Vektal, finds her and frees her from it. Vektal almost immediately recognizes Georgie as his mate, as the symbiont in his chest makes him "resonate" to her which leads to some very dubiously consensual sexual activity. Language barrier doesn't help the matters as the two have trouble communicating with each other but Vektal is determined about taking care of Georgie while she is trying to find her way back to the other survivors. Still the developing relationship between the two is rather idyllic and the two engage in further sexual activity.
Upon rereading I found the relationship between Georgie and Vektal quite boring because if we disregard the troubles in communication there were no major issues between these two complete strangers who only met five minutes ago. What I was more interested in was getting back to the other survivors and seeing Georgie and Vektal being all lovey dovey just made me impatient to get to the more plotty part of the story.
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 and Vektal it was somewhat boring relying too much on sex scenes between main characters for my taste.
Themes: dual POV, alien abduction, stranded, "fated" mates, pregnancy
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Rape, Kidnapping, and Murder
Moderate: Death, Gore, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail
kylasmv15's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Trafficking, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Cursing and Abortion
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail