Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Barbarian's Taming by Ruby Dixon

15 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

kloughlin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, and Grief

katiekeske's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is probably one of my least favorite couples (I just find it hard to relate to people who want to be f*** buddies like Maddie was insistent on), but I still am glad to have read this one because around the half way point some major things happen to the tribe. If you care about continuity and overall plot with the tribe, you should read this one. 

I have to say I really didn't like all the self fat shaming that Maddie did either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

robinwritesallthethings's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

What It’s About: Maddie finds herself falling for Hassen, but she has mixed feelings about it since he kidnapped her sister once. Then a disaster that affects the whole tribe changes everything.

Spice Level: Maddie and Hassen are super hot, and they get into it right away, even before they catch feelings.

Realism: This book really dives into the motivations behind actions, and how they can be good even if the action itself is bad. It actually made a lot of sense to me that these would get together, and I’m glad that they did!

Trope Alert: Enemies to lovers (if you squint at the beginning), friends with benefits.

Trigger Warnings: A big natural disaster, some death, and a lot of injury.

Final Thoughts: I’d been waiting for something big to happen because of all the dropped hints,  but good grief, I hadn’t expected this! I was freaking out waiting to find out what happened to everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

lilalhreads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Kidnapping and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

issyfrp99's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia and Kidnapping

c0urtn3yy's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

Eh; I said I was gonna quit after the last one but I read this one anyway. I'm getting bored - all the books are now the same with very minimal vadiations. & it's SO repetitive, even within itself not just across the series. & even though they setup a new storyline at the end, they didn't setup any new couples so it feels like a good place to stop. Overall I did like Hassan & Maddie's story though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

martamae77's review

adventurous emotional fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy

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