Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

18 reviews

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Cursing, Medical content, Sexual content, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

smuttymcbookface's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

One of my favourites from the series. Rukh is sweet, Harlow is strong and consistently optimistic. The drama near the end felt a little fabricated, but I don't mind.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness, Child abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

robinwritesallthethings's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What It’s About: This book reveals what happened to Harlow at the end of the previous volume after she didn’t come back and details her adventures with Rukh, an alien the others thought died long ago.

Spice Level: It may be cold on the ice planet, but the sex is always hot. I’m not sure the sex in this one is hotter than the others, but I like it more because Harlow and Rukh are my favorite couple.

Realism: This particular plot brings in the idea of (mis)communication and isolation even more than the others. Rukh barely knows the alien language, so even though Harlow speaks it, they have to work much harder to talk to each other, and their fear keeping them away from the others is very understandable, especially considering the circumstances. Overall, I just love how Ruby brings tough themes into these fantastical stories and deals with them well. It also showcases the powers of the khui a bit more. I was shocked at how much it could do when I read it!

Trigger Warnings: There’s some pretty intense kidnapping going on, brief mentions of a terminal illness, and a difficult pregnancy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Cancer

Minor: Death of parent and Grief

kb33's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Terminal illness, and Cancer

biloser99's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

4.75

One of my favorite installments in the series. At this point in the series, you're fully immersed in the world and its "rules", which helps you get over the whole "knock over the head and thrown over the shoulder caveman style kidnapping" meet-cute. The author somehow was able to go from that to having Rukh be my favorite blue alien guy in the bunch. I wasn't expecting more Raahosh lore which was fun. I did get a little emotional when Harlow fully realizes she will be okay, and so will her baby

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping and Terminal illness

alisoun's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Cancer, Medical content, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Terminal illness and Death of parent

CWs: labour and birth. IUGR/ small for gestational age baby. Pre term birth. Difficult pregnancy - maybe pre eclampsia.

teardropsonmypaperback's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Animal death

mbasford's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Animal death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Violence, Cancer, and Death of parent

bbygirl21's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

This is another great read in the Ice Planet Barbarians series.

This may be one of the sweetest couples in the series so far. They really go through everything together. They learn how to adapt together. Rukh adapting to having another person around after being alone for so long and Harlow adapting to her new surroundings and having to make a new home from scratch for her, Rukh, and their unborn child.

I love how protective Rukh is of Harlow going so far as to put his own beliefs about the tribe aside and trusting them as much as possible when Harlow needs him to. And I love how Harlow teaches him hiw to talk to her and everything about mating and resonance. 

The ending was great as well. I love that Rukh and Harlow finally get the family that they've always wanted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pregnancy, Violence, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment

ashleybeereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, and Animal death

Minor: Terminal illness