Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Barbarian's Taming by Ruby Dixon

4 reviews

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

ninahuynh's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I have mixed feelings about Maddie, but overall, she's the fierce older sister who won't sit back and take bullshit from anyone and I can dig that. Her self-victimization gets jaded over time, though. Hassen is just a lonely guy who wants to have companion. Doesn't excuse his actions in the previous book, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Fatphobia, and Kidnapping

bookameme's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

He’s a 10, but he kidnapped your sister.

Thoughts 💡
As far as I’m concerned Ruby can do no wrong and if you yuck my yum on this a little tiny part of my heart will hate you.
Now, like every good blue barbarian babe (on FB go check them out), I have favorite couples. Maddie & Hassan are somewhere in the top ten. Mostly because I love Maddie’s sass and Hassan’s redemption arc. I also really like that Maddie took on a bit of a teacher role in the furs.
They are one of the kinkiest couple’s on Not Hoth and their shenanigans continue through the whole series, but to truly understand them you have to go through the emotional trauma of this book. Because yes, as fun and lighthearted and smutty as Ruby is, she threw a big old wrench into the sunshine and rainbows of this frozen world.

✨Note✨interconnected standalone
✨✨ Also✨The audiobooks are in the audible plus catalog.
✨✨✨ And one more thing✨ Berkley is rocking these special edition covers, I freaking love them. And they’ve added some bonus content so if you haven’t read this one yet, you should go get it.

Stats📊
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Characters 💙💙💙💙💙
Alien Romance: monster love, plus size girl, FWB to something more, enemies to lovers, sassy FMC, himbo, grief📘
First Person, Past Tense, Dual POV
⚠️  Ngl, Ruby hurt us all with what happened in this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

robinsong's review

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail