Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Barbarian's Mate by Ruby Dixon

15 reviews

mbasford's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault

wad3mil3sgarru2's review

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Pregnancy, Vomit, Blood, Confinement, and Sexual assault

smuttymcbookface's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Easily one of my favourites from this series. Grumpy-sunshine is always a wonderful pairing, and mix in the enemies to lovers and the crazy spicy scenes, and it's hard not to love this.

Plus, it's kind of great that Haeden remains a surly Neanderthal when it comes to Josie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual content

Moderate: Gore, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

pbella3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

jessicalarson125's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Blood, and Rape

Moderate: Grief and Pregnancy

katiekeske's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I was nervous starting this book about these two because there had been such buildup in the previous books. I do not like it when characters are mean to each other and have miscommunication, which these two had a lot of. I am giving it a four because there is character growth and more adventure with some more world-building in this one (instead of just being stuck in a cave resonating the whole book). 

Once I got to read Haeden's POV and get his background and feelings, I was totally smitten with him. His story is so sad, and his actions make sense once you understand him. I wished he had shared more of his feelings out loud. Of course, that's part of the angsty drama. 

I personally had a hard time connecting to Josie. I like that she's supposed to be a sunshine character, but her strong and constant desire to have a baby, especially after all the trauma she's gone through, just doesn't make sense to me. It was a little jarring to go from Tiffany's book, which I thought handled her trauma really well, to Josie's book where she doesn't seem affected by her past at all. She briefly mentions things, but then just gets over it...? (Good for her, I guess. Are there people out there like that? I don't know any myself...) I know every woman is different, so there are women out there who will feel a connection with her. I'm just not one of them. I wished she treated Haeden better sooner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Blood, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Minor: Vomit, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Josie mentions being sexually abused when she was in foster care . She does not go into great detail. Haeden very briefly attempts suicide in a moment when he thinks he's lost Josie.

alisoun's review against another edition

4.0

Honestly I loved this one! 
It's miscommunication because they both express their love differently 🥺🥺🥺🥺 he's all acts of service and she's expecting words of affirmation. 
I really enjoyed re reading their journey! 
In a way I also think this is a second chance resonance for Haeden but with someone he actually loves! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Josie grew up in foster care which is were the brief mention TWs occured

ashleybeereads's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Animal death, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death, Gore, Abandonment, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Body shaming

yaoipaddle's review

emotional funny medium-paced

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

2.0

listened to audiobook and it's very blah at this point with the same voices.

as usual an interesting pairing is made boring the moment they're the main characters of the book. josie is incredibly selfish and no one seems to check her on it which is mindbogglingly STUPID.

endangering people's lives to hunt another sakotsk to get her a new khui...? girl im gonna attack you myself.

theres an interesting plot but instead of exploring it we get chapters and chapters of the same played out miscommunication romance plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Death, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexism

robinsong's review

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Self harm, Animal death, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking