Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

67 reviews

thats_so_raychell's review

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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Sexual content, Confinement, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Death, Rape, Cursing, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Violence, and Slavery

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

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

notamouse's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

4.0

🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Slavery, Kidnapping, Abortion, Animal death, Death, Pregnancy, Grief, Confinement, and Excrement

rmperezpadilla's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Slavery

Body horror/nastiness when Georgie

willingly receives a parasite for plot reasons

but it is brief (a couple sentences) and not graphic.

crystalmackey's review

adventurous dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

reiverse's review

emotional funny relaxing fast-paced

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

3.5

For what it’s worth, blue aliens and all, this was mildly amusing and just a decent plot to follow. I didn’t take it too seriously but it was a nice read in between books!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Trafficking

evren219's review

funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Death, Slavery, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

dakotajudge's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

perfect for the girlies (gender neutral) who miss their Rabbit™️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

swolerabbit's review

dark funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

5.0

read this because i wanted to know what the absolute fuck was going on. i’d seen the memes, and curiosity got me.
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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, Infertility, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexism, Kidnapping, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Suicide, Murder, and Animal death