Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

116 reviews

sfarley's review

The first chapter is likely the worst chapter I have ever read in my life, I was skipping entire pages willing it to get better. 

I gave it the entire first “chapter” and realized quickly my time is too precious to waste reading it on this ✌🏼

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Kidnapping, and Excrement

There is hardly a plot?

abaighritz's review

dark fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Excrement, and Rape

awrittenwood's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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? No

2.75

Honestly, I don't know how to rate this story. It was certainly something. Something weird. Something fun. Something. I think if you go into it understanding that you can't take it too seriously, you'll have a good time with it. If you're expecting Schwab or Bardugo, or whoever your favorite writer is, level of writing, this ain't it. 

The beginning starts off dark, and I'm glad it didn't stay that way for long, but the only thing I really didn't like is the same thing I always hate writers doing to women in relationships which is

making them pregnant. That's one of the quickest ways to ruin a story for me, personally.

I would have liked more world building, more development of the characters overall, and more development of the romance between the two mains.

 Will I read more in the series? Eh... Maybe... Probably. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Trafficking, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Child death, Death, Excrement, Miscarriage, and Violence

lil13's review

fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Rape, Abortion, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Excrement, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Physical abuse

malisac16's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Excrement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape

redbeanm0chi's review against another edition

3.0

I truly anticipated this book to be trash and I’m… pleasantly surprised. It’s a little diet version avatar-ish with the big blue aliens with tails, but the book genuinely had some interesting world elements that I hope the author explores more in later books.

I was not a fan of the rape-y vibes from the love interest alien species even though the explanation is that their culture is different.

(I mean the first time the main couple met, Vektal went down on her while she was unconscious and it made me a tiny tiny bit uncomfortable).

Luckily Vektal improves pretty soon after. One of the side characters is also raped by another alien species of screen early in the book, so generally expect some uncomfortable and downright disgusting situations around the abducting of the girls.

The characters were okay (Liz owns my heart) and the world building actually had some interesting stuff with for example the khui and the metlaks. Plot wise I wish we’d gotten more from the whole alien abduction thing cause they seemed like a big threat and then they were gone. The ending in general felt so rushed, I didn’t actually realise that the book had ended.

It gets a spice rating of 3.5. There are loads of explicit sex scenes in the book, but they are all very vanilla and fluffy. They also get a bit repetitive after a while, which often is the consequence of having so many of them hanging on a pretty eventless plot. The sex does end in a pregnancy and it’s mentioned pretty early, so keep that in mind if you want to read the book.

Also, I appreciate a doting and loving partner, but it started to feel a bit like “resonance partners have to do whatever their partner says and they cannot refuse each other ever”, and I was not a great fan of that. I’m worried characters will disappear into their relationships.

Lastly, I basically fell in love with the author after reading the authors note, so I hope she enjoys writing as many more of the books as she wants.

Not sure if I’ll be reading the sequel, but I don’t regret reading the first book at all!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, and Vomit

Moderate: Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion

smithrachaelynn's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

5.0

I’ve read this a bunch of times and this most recent time was to annotate my physical copy. It just never stops being good. It’s funny and interesting and surprisingly compelling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Excrement, and Death

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Rape, and Mental illness

curatoriallyyours's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.5

Spicy alien smut, basically! CW for rape - one brutal, one that becomes the problematic prelude to a relationship. It otherwise does what it says on the tin! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Excrement, Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

daringreader13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Excrement, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Cursing, Violence, Confinement, Animal death, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Rape

dreamyari's review

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

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

3.0

LISTEN. This book successfully does exactly what it set out to do and I love it for that. A few repetition issues and some problematic descriptions that I could have done without but overall genuinely a fun experience. Will be picking up the next one!🤭

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Grief, Death, and Excrement

Minor: Racism and Pregnancy