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bumfinity's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-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
3.5
Didn’t particularly care for Claire as much but still a good story and nice to check in on other characters.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Domestic abuse and Vomit
michalsstoryadventures's review
emotional
hopeful
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Stalking, and Pregnancy
missbliss's review against another edition
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Feels Like Smutty Alien Barbarian Lifetime Christmas Movie
This story jumps from Georgie and new character Claire's perspective. So no male POV in this short read. As always explicit sex scenes shown throughout, though I did not find them quite as compelling as the last stories. We do get a window into not all relationships being happy and healthy with Claire being in an emotionally abusive dynamic with the male Bek she has been seeing/staying with despite not having resonated. So was interesting to see how this is brought up in a tiny community and see Claire's perspective on her understanding of why she is in this relationship. All of these stories are always very hard HEA so moments of tension feel brief and quickly resolved but was a shift from the typical description of the relationships between the human women and Sa-khui men. This story greatly focuses on all the human women wanting to bring earth traditions like holidays to Not-Hoth and trying to explain and share this with the Sa-khui. There is also lots of discussions of the new babies and childbirth. The pacing felt slightly slower, the laughs less entertaining, and the story overall less engaging. It is a quick read and very much adds to the development of the world but definitely not a story I would ever feel compelled to revisit and my least favorite of the series so far (I am following a reading list from the author's website that incorporates all the series in this universe).
This story jumps from Georgie and new character Claire's perspective. So no male POV in this short read. As always explicit sex scenes shown throughout, though I did not find them quite as compelling as the last stories. We do get a window into not all relationships being happy and healthy with Claire being in an emotionally abusive dynamic with the male Bek she has been seeing/staying with despite not having resonated. So was interesting to see how this is brought up in a tiny community and see Claire's perspective on her understanding of why she is in this relationship. All of these stories are always very hard HEA so moments of tension feel brief and quickly resolved but was a shift from the typical description of the relationships between the human women and Sa-khui men. This story greatly focuses on all the human women wanting to bring earth traditions like holidays to Not-Hoth and trying to explain and share this with the Sa-khui. There is also lots of discussions of the new babies and childbirth. The pacing felt slightly slower, the laughs less entertaining, and the story overall less engaging. It is a quick read and very much adds to the development of the world but definitely not a story I would ever feel compelled to revisit and my least favorite of the series so far (I am following a reading list from the author's website that incorporates all the series in this universe).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse
kloughlin's review
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy
Minor: Domestic abuse
bbygirl21's review
challenging
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
This was a really good book in the Ice Planet Barbarians series.
I like how we get Claire's pov in this and that she finally finds her true mate. I'm really happy she gets out of the toxic relationship with Bek and gets with the very sweet and caring, Ereven. I really love how patient and loving Ereven is with Claire even when they're not together yet, and how he protects her against Bek's advances.
I'm also happy we got more of Georgie's pov in this one. I love how we see her struggle with her pregnancy and with seeing the other girls giving birth to their babies before her when Georgie was the first one of the girls that resonated and got pregnant. Especially since she was always in so much pain as well in this story. And it was also upsetting what had happened when she did eventually go into labor. But I'm happy everything turned out fine for her by the end of this book.
They are a few rough topics in this one, so I suggest looking up the content/trigger warnings.
I like how we get Claire's pov in this and that she finally finds her true mate. I'm really happy she gets out of the toxic relationship with Bek and gets with the very sweet and caring, Ereven. I really love how patient and loving Ereven is with Claire even when they're not together yet, and how he protects her against Bek's advances.
I'm also happy we got more of Georgie's pov in this one. I love how we see her struggle with her pregnancy and with seeing the other girls giving birth to their babies before her when Georgie was the first one of the girls that resonated and got pregnant. Especially since she was always in so much pain as well in this story. And it was also upsetting what had happened when she did eventually go into labor. But I'm happy everything turned out fine for her by the end of this book.
They are a few rough topics in this one, so I suggest looking up the content/trigger warnings.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Minor: Medical content and Medical trauma
yaoipaddle's review
emotional
lighthearted
fast-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? No
3.0
Cute story beats that get me excited to read the series again. I just skip all the porn because it is… very repetitive. I think I liked this cause it had comparatively little couple stuff to a full book or the honeymoons.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Domestic abuse
a_libra_library's review
3.0
Seeing as how I don’t like Georgie I would have LOVED this book more if it were just Clara and her mate. I don’t think she gets a full book. I didn’t feel like Holly jolly though.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Pregnancy
mochoa037's review
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? No
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy
Minor: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse
robinsong's review
lighthearted
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
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
now_booking's review
emotional
relaxing
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.0
This is a good “holiday special” sort of catch up book to sort of give an update on the original main human players in No-Hoth as they create a new holiday tradition there. There’s also a sub-plot of Claire’s toxic relationship with Bek and her finding support in Ereven as she tries to overcome habits learned in her childhood from her mother’s toxic relationships and find happiness. Overall, not a necessary book in the series but if you’ve already read and liked the first 4, you’ll probably want to check it out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Domestic abuse