Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Kira und Aehako by Ruby Dixon

13 reviews

paradoxchild's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

I’ll admit, I didn’t like Kira very much at the beginning of the book. But as we learn more about her story and why she acts the way she acts, I’ve grown to respect her. Aehako is truly a perfect mate for her. His cheery sunshine alien self brings her out of her shyness and elicits more of the confidence and determination that she’s held bottled up inside.

And that last chapter had me on a rollercoaster: happy, then heartbroken, hen ecstatic and joy. It would’ve been interesting

to have a couple that doesn’t resonate, that she doesn’t have to get pregnant in order for her to have her happy ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infertility, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Slavery, and Vomit

pbella3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Rape, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

kb33's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infertility and Trafficking

Minor: Rape, Abortion, and Pregnancy

lacee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

My favorite so far! Aehako my beloved, my man! I couldn't stop smiling while reading this book! Kira and Aehako were just so perfect, I love everything about their relationship. I felt they balanced each other perfectly and the focus on establishing a relationship without resonance was refreshing and sweet. Surprisingly, there was actually a plot in this installment and some decent action.

I'm glad the baddies are gone. I'm a little peeved at how Harlow's disappearance was handled. I've mentioned the logic of the characters in my other reviews but I find it completely ridiculous that they assumed she ran away. There are dangerous alien predators that eat people on this planet yet they resort to thinking she's a coward instead of being, I don't know, possibly a Metlak's next meal!? The way these characters think sometimes is just plain dumb.

Side Note: The honeymoon novellas just aren't that good. Just like in <i>Barbarian Alien</i>, Kira, and Aehako's novella walked back some good character development.

I was hoping Kira and Asha would become friends. The main story hinted toward this just to revert them back to enemies in the novella. Lame.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Rape, Trafficking, and Alcohol

smuttymcbookface's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

I found the build up to the main plot a little dull in this one, but I loved both Kira and Aehako. There was the right mix of humour in it, and I loved Aehako's silliness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

 only ruby dixon can take the couple of my fave side characters and make it a fucking slog to get through.

if youre struggling to conceive or have fertility issues dont read this book because it will make you feel like shit. kira does nothing but describe herself as "flawed" and "broken" constantly because she is infertile due to a medical reason as a teen. instead of doing something interesting with a character that is not affected by the parasite in the same way the other humans are, the author makes kira a woman tormented and unbearable due to it. 

"It was his choice to mate me despite knowing my flaws." - Kira (yes the 'flaw' is her being infertile.)

the actual plot beats of the evil aliens from book 1 returning are interesting but are too few compared to the many scenes of the author constantly reminding us of her pregnancy fetish.

the way everyone treated harlow was also so fucked up but i dont want to spoil too much. to me it just further illustrates how the characters will act out of character just when it's most convenient to the plot.

vektal and georgie continue to be so unlovable in this book as well. as if theyre the only two people that matter to each other and everyone else can die for all they care.

and my personal fave thing to hate on is how little the translator stuff makes sense. how can aehako not know what a "tub" is, but knows what calling someone "randy" means? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infidelity and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Stalking

kyriannaj's review against another edition

• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Child death and Death

sam019's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.5

Good series! It's so wierd which is why I hesitate on the rating but it probably deserves a higher rating. Always looking forward to the next stories!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Blood, and Kidnapping