Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

24 reviews

ireadinbed's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

4.0

This was honestly much better than expected! I thought it would be like a crack fanfic but it has a ton of heart and a lot of small interesting elements. Reminds me a lot of Nina Bangs in writing style, except scifi. Very funny but not annoyingly so. 

Some bits at the beginning were really horrifying though. 

It will look weird rated a 4 next to send of my other 4s, but I think it's important to rate things based on what they were trying for, and this is a really decent romance novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Body horror

Moderate: Rape

emeraldblade's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Trafficking, Slavery, Murder, and Body horror

Minor: Death

emfass's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.25

I liked this way more than I expected to. The first chapter or two were very dark and potentially triggering (see below), but after Georgie finds Vektal, things were overall delightful. Not as light and fluffy as I thought it would be, but very enjoyable.

Part of me wishes the sex had been a little more creative. You're inventing a whole alien race and planet! You could totally reinvent sex!! But I still enjoyed it just fine.

Plus a little nub that exactly hits your clit during penetration?? YES PLEASE.

Not sure why I was expecting an alpha alien, but Vektal was all cinnamon roll. I loved how he just did everything in his power to take care of Georgie, was firm in his love of her but never forced her hand

(except perhaps in a dubious-consent scene when he wakes her up with cunnilingus, before understanding that she did not have the same understanding of resonance/mating as him; we are in her head when it happens and she is happy going along with it)

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See Leigh Kramer's review for an excellent breakdown of content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Excrement

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

It is strongly hinted at but not entirely confirmed (?) that the main character is pregnant by the end of the book. Lots of talk of wanting to get her pregnant by Vektal. There is a mention of one of the kidnapped women having been pregnant when she was taken, but that the kidnapper aliens forced an abortion.

emilygigs's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

Advice: Read the first chapter and then just skim until they crash-land on the ice planet — there’s an unnecessary and upsetting scene where a supporting character is raped that may make many readers want to quit the book entirely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Body horror

Moderate: Trafficking and Kidnapping