Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

360 reviews

smittys_girl's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pregnancy

sunshine_day's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved everything about this book! I have never in my life. Read a book that was this short, but had this level of world building and character development. Plus, I haven't laughed that hard in such a long time.

5 - ⭐ 
3 - 🌶️ 
5 - 😂 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Pregnancy, Rape, Medical content, Abortion, and Violence

unusablebooklore's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.0

Aliens
Fancy 🍆
Mates
Language barrier 
 
Big blue dude essentially says “Hi, you’re my mate!” by putting his mouth on the FMC's 😼. I don’t have an issue with his greeting. I have an issue with the fact that she’s not really conscious and consenting. She could have been…boo.
 
40%…it’s not been a day. This book is moving fast.
 
Over all; this isn’t the worst thing I’ve ever read, I may even give the second book a go. But I can’t help but feel that the popularity of this book is mainly driven by people new to spicy books. I can’t help but feel like the novelty of spice and alien peen is the primary reason people are enamoured by this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit, Excrement, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

lexilikestoread's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

The first book in the Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon explores what happens when a group of women are abducted from Earth and then abandoned on an icy planet.

In this first tale we meet Georgie, a 22-year-old who went to sleep in her own bed and wakes up in a spaceship surrounded by other 22-year-old females, in good health, who are not pregnant and have no family close by.  She learns that one woman in the group was given a hearing device to understand what their captors are saying.  After some traumatizing experiences and revelations, they are left to fend for themselves on a strange planet, one they initially hope is Earth but very quickly find out it is not. Georgie, being unwittingly named the leader, strikes out in search of supplies, or help. She encounters a barbarian of the icy planet they have landed on, and after a unique greeting and some awkward attempts at interspecies communication she convinces him to take her to the other women.  Their tale is spicy, entertaining, and (surprisingly to me) kept me wanting to know "what's going to happen next"? 

I am totally invested in what happens to these women and I'm looking forward to the next book in the tale.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

cxsmiccxtie's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Confinement, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Pregnancy

tinkerswiftie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

I reluctantly tried this because it was on audible plus and I knew it was popular on BookTok. Why not? I feel like I went down the Sci-Fi version of Alice’s rabbit hole. I’m my mad about it either 😏🤪

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Slavery

Minor: Abandonment and Cursing

lanternheart's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.75

Solidly a middling book for me — while the sex scenes are largely enjoyable, the plot itself suffers from a lack of growth in some of its characters, and a heavy hand with "Buffyspeak" that was a bit hard to ignore until it dropped in frequency later in the book.

I can see how this would be a more fun read for others than myself, but it read quite similar to a sex pollen AU fanfic in some respects, and that's not always my cup of tea! A quick read, though, so nice to get through a small reading slump.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Trafficking

janekeats's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.0

Is it a Pulitzer Prize winner? No. But it is FUN (aside from that one scene in the beginning) and I had a good time reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual content

klsreads's review

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Vomit

smuttymcbookface's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.25

Although IPB starts of dark, this doesn't detract from how how much I love Georgie (and eventually Vektal.)

Ruby Dixon does an amazing job of writing believable and relatable heroines thrown into difficult situations. Georgie is someone strong, almost in a subtle way, who strives to make things better instead of complaining about her lot in life. She's funny, persuasive, and stands up for the little guy. Although she doesn't naturally assume a role of leadership, she does what she has to so that she can keep the people around her safe.

Needless to say, the plot and world-building of IPB draws you in and keeps you hooked. Although Vektal is not my favourite at the start, and the writing indicates that it's through a misunderstanding of cultures, I definitely warm to him by the end.

However, I will add that a lot of these could do with a second round of editing as there are typos, changes from first to third POV mid sentence, and the kindle display between page breaks is literally a blank page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Rape, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Excrement, Torture, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy