Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

63 reviews

sinnybuns's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It’s good, it’s just not really my thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Rape, Death, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Vomit, Kidnapping, Gore, and Excrement

jessicaludden's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Death, Rape, and Trafficking

kb33's review

adventurous challenging dark lighthearted fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Entertaining and short. The world building was definitely there, but the length of the book was short because it touched but didn't delve into some topics that would make the book a lot darker - like Georgie's worry about the family and friends she left behind, or thoughts of returning home. 

CW/TW: the rape scene is in the beginning, was easy to skip over, and then was only mentioned a few times. This topic was not written about in depth after it occurred on page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Confinement, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Trafficking, Rape, Sexual content, Animal death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood and Vomit

Minor: Abortion and Suicide

kylasmv15's review

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Excrement, Gore, Pregnancy, and Violence

zoevjester's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

3.75

This book needs to be longer, but this series is 21 books deep so I'll let that go. 
Also, this book contains topics that I'm not comfortable reading so that's why it's marked lower.
But Georgie is great and Vektal is a cinnamon roll.  Will be continuing the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Confinement, Trafficking, Death, Excrement, Kidnapping, and Rape

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical content

m_lee's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Abortion, Vomit, Confinement, Animal death, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Death, Child death, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Gore, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Blood, Grief, Torture, Slavery, Sexual assault, Murder, Infertility, and Animal death

bohboh's review

slow-paced

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

1.0

I found out pretty quickly that I may not be the target audience for this novel, but wow is this really bad science fiction. The heroines are altogether helpless in pretty much everything, the writing leaves you cringing every few pages, and it's absolutely awash with overdone romance and fiction tropes. 

Dixon was able to at least make an interesting alien planet that feels filled with awesome alien flora and fauna, but her writing fails to capitalize on that and suffers from some pretty glaring ethical murkiness in the romantic themes she chose. Half of the story is told from the male alien's perspective: He is the definition of no-thoughts-head-empty, immediately "love-at-first-sight" for the female lead, and ultimately not interesting. I highly recommend reading anything else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, and Violence

e11e_reads's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Animal death, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Confinement

Minor: Rape, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, Trafficking, and Excrement

kennethwade's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Blood

crinkledmochi's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.5

UM…. no thoughts, head empty 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Ableism, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Torture, Body horror, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Trafficking