hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about barbarian alien by ruby dixon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly i didn’t expect to much from this book, since i don’t read these books for the actual reading, more so with the entertainment value from these, since they’re just so silly and stupid.
trigger warnings- sexual content, kidnapping, animal death, confinement, sexism, pregnancy, misogyny, injury/injury detail, bullying, cursing, sexual assault, violence, blood, abandonment, emotional abuse, rape, toxic relationship, forced institutionalization, medical content, trafficking, stalking, gaslighting.
i think my biggest issue with this book, was liz. like in book one, georgie was honestly annoying, but i could still tolerate her, to some degree. but, when it came to liz, holy shit was she a pain the ass. like, so much of this book was just liz being just was being a bitch over and over again. like, yeah raahosh was kind of a dick, but he was just honestly so much nicer to her and like he genuinely cared about her and made sure she had a enough food and a warm place to sleep and clothes, but than she would turn around and just be such an asshole to him. like, it honestly was just so annoying and it honestly got on my nerves after a while.
and also, like i feel like there was just also this part where she was just so slut shamey to other women. like, i think that a lot of the other human girls were just doing what was best with what the situation they were put it, and they adapted to the whole alien life style with their clothes and their periods and like living in these caves, especially with the whole nudity part. and like i get not being completely comfortable with baring everything for the world to see, but like when she would go on these tangents about how they were always naked and and it was gross, and how she’s not a slut so she needs to cover herself up, it got to be a bit to much and i hated it.
with that, i honestly really like raahosh. like, i think he was honestly so sweet, and i honestly really liked the way he cared about liz and all the things he did for her, even if she was just such an asshole to him and everyone around her. and like, i he was just nice to read about. plus, i really liked that we got a hero, especially in a romance book that is about aliens, i think it was cool that we got a hero that was emotionally scarred and that it kind of made it feel more reasonable, even if it was about aliens.
but, i still feel like this book was toxic as all fuck, and even if he still had better moments than liz, raahosh was still an asshole. like, for one, off the bat we see the kidnapping because she doesn’t want to be with him, he just takes her away, which, i was happy to see in the end of the book there was some consequences. and also the whole scene with the worm and how he put it in her, when she even said no, was just so gross. i honestly hated it so much and i really didn’t like how they just did that, even once she said no and she didn’t want it, multiple times. and like, the whole way they justified it, was that it would ‘protect’ her and made them have better sex. i still just think it was done so grossly and i honestly really didn’t like it at all.
and like when they finally had those whole i love you moment, and how they actually realized that they did love it each other. i think it was just so gross and i honestly didn’t like them together. like, i think so much of this relationship was just built on sex and lust, that when they actually got together, it just felt off. and i mean, i think that they could’ve made it been so much better and how they just didn’t work to well. plus, i think so much of this book had the whole ‘i only live for you’ plot, which is something i don’t like, so having it in here was just gross, but it’s just alien’s so who knows.
ICE PLANET HONEYMOON: RAAHOSH & LIZ- 2/5 stars.
i think that this book was just so boring. like, i feel like so much of this book was just boring and i honestly just didn’t like that those vibe of this book. like, so much of this book was just liz just sitting around and raahosh kinda just going along with it, since he can’t come near her because of the exile. but, i think that so much of this was just so boring and it really didn’t do to much for me.
but, i also think that so much of this book just had so many things that went against what actually happened in the original book. like, there was just so many parts of this book where raahosh was insecure about himself, like one part he called himself ugly. and like in the original book, liz would’ve been like, no your not ugly and kind of comforted him in what he thought. but, instead, in here she just kind of let it go and didn’t help him when he came out and said that, which honestly just pissed me off.
and like i think that also so much of this book just didn’t have a good plot. like, the whole conflict and it all was just sexual, mainly cause the whole ugly. but, i think that so much of this book was just so juvenile and it just felt like something that was so basic, and felt like such a stupid book. like, i wish they did focus a little less on the whole sexual plot, and if they did have the whole sexual plot, they didn’t make it seem so childish. and i mean, i think it could’ve been so much better, if it was just pure sex, and not all this side plot.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly wished i liked this book, but i mean it still was an entertaining read nonetheless. and i mean, it still was a fun book to read, and definitely good for one of those no think books, which was something i honestly really like to read.