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klsreads's review
- 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
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Vomit
smuttymcbookface's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
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.
Graphic: Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Rape, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Excrement, Torture, and Sexual assault
Minor: Pregnancy
readyourrights's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual content, Excrement, Rape, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement and Pregnancy
jemms's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.75
Characters: 0.25
The main characters were flat and I never felt compelled to be particularly sympathetic to them but I didn't hate them either. Side characters seemed much more promising.
A little ridiculous and over the top in some areas
Faced paced but some how incredibly slow.
Could use some polish but not bad.
I enjoyed the world-building more than the characters, though the sci-fi aspects like the space ships were a bit uninspired.
Spice: 4 🌶️
Multiple vanilla scenes but he's alien who's got some fun bits and is completely devoted to her. Plus banging in furs by a fire has its atmospheric appeals.
Tropes: big blue alien, fated mates, he falls first, pregnancy, technically forced proximity
Graphic: Rape, Violence, Sexual content, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Pregnancy
ladola's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Rape and Kidnapping
Minor: Pregnancy
brittanyclary's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Excrement, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Death, and Pregnancy
alien smutthelongroadtosanity's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
4 out of 5 stars
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Kidnapping, Trafficking, and Gore
Minor: Pregnancy
alex_baker's review against another edition
- 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? No
2.0
The sex scenes were...not my cup of tea. They were very...you know when you are making fun of bad heterosexual erotica and how to guy has a 20ft dick and the woman orgasms in 2 seconds? That's what it seemed to be.
Also, I'm assuming this is a fault of the platform I listened to the audiobook (spotify) and not the actual book, but content warnings were not read. Which meant that in the first chunk of the book, I was suddenly thrust into a r*pe scene of a background character by, for lack of a better term, prison guard. I was not prepared AT ALL for that and although it didn't go into much detail--it was still a jarring scene to listen to when doing my dishes!
Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Confinement, Death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Kidnapping, Excrement, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Rape
grimmbleton's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content
Moderate: Trafficking, Excrement, Death, Kidnapping, Vomit, Rape, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Pregnancy
Minor: Abortion and Injury/Injury detail
rmperezpadilla's review
- 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
Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Slavery
Body horror/nastiness when Georgie