Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon

14 reviews

cxsmiccxtie's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

philodora's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Cursing, Sexism, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death and Confinement

Minor: Stalking, Pregnancy, and Child death

singingshooter's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Blood, Animal death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Sexism

words_and_dreams's review

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

Another easy going read, entertaining. 

Very similiar to the first book, but now we have a 'feisty' heroine and a grumpy hero. 
I did like that Liz had lots of practical skills making her more independant in the harsh environment. Her and her mixed signals at the start were pretty annoying though.

Downside, there was even more baby stuff, blah 🤢 how are these women ok with this??? Anyhoo...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Blood

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexism, Death of parent, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Violence, Grief, and Blood

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Xenophobia, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Pregnancy, Blood, and Vomit

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexism, and Violence

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death, Blood, and Pregnancy

golden_like_dior's review

adventurous emotional funny relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Medical content, Sexual content, Bullying, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Excrement, and Forced institutionalization

rensreading's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? No

2.75

i wanted to like this book. it had a strong beginning but i truly could not push past the stockholm syndrome shit going on. it was even worse than in the first book. liz rags on georgie’s relationship a lot without taking a closer look at her own and that irritated me so much because she’s such a strong and stubborn character. but she isn’t perfect and she fell for the dark, tall, and brooding man with the tragic past and parental issues that kidnapped her after she had just escaped another set of kidnappers. way to really stick to your own independence there, liz.

i did like that she mentioned all the shitty and unexplained things the sa-khui are keeping from the humans, unknowingly or not. especially this line: “I thought we were supposed to be equals but maybe the goal is to keep us all barefoot and pregnant and sewing.” bc that is essentially what the sa-khui are doing. she’s aware enough to stir up dissent but not self-aware enough to look at her own relationship and see that its toxic and unhealthy. raahosh is a very shy guy when you get down to it but we can’t just write off the fact that he forced their relationship on liz by shoving the khui into her when she was unwilling. whatever happened to people’s right to die on their own terms? mates a big thing in this universe dixon created, obviously, but they’re also the cause for a lot of dubious consent and plain, unforgiving non consensual sexual assaults too.

again, just more violence against women.

dixon’s writing is also very inconsistent and juvenile too. liz knows the name of the sa-khui’s language without ever being told it by georgie. raahosh acts like the concept of love is normal in their culture and then mentions later that its a big deal to liz without ever mentioning who he learned that from since it wasn’t from vektal or liz, the two most likely to explain that to him. in the epilogue raahosh turns from this mine-mine-mine possessive dude to oh-my-god-what-if-she-hates-my-guts kind of dude and the shift in his character was drastic enough to really catch me off-guard. there was so much being waved away and then explained later but, in the process, it made the first instance all the more confusing since you’re left wondering how characters even know that information.

the spice was alright. it was the only reason i finished this but i wont be continuing with this series any longer and will probably unhaul the copies i got too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Blood, Cursing, Excrement, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Sexual assault

so much violence against women is in this.