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apolen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Cursing
Moderate: Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Car accident
raquel_rqlh's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment
Minor: Body shaming and Bullying
chloenoe11e's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Sexual content
Moderate: Stalking
Minor: Car accident
leonormsousa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
buttermellow's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Abandonment and Sexual harassment
Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Classism
sk_09's review against another edition
- 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
And Mariana- I think you can use proper nouns instead of describing them with a handful of adjectives, what they have done in the past and how many times you have encountered them. Other than that, it was a cute book.
Graphic: Bullying and Cursing
baylakressi's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Body shaming, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
sweetsxrrxw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
therefore, i am gonna start by highlighting some of the things that didn't sit well with me. firstly, something that many other reviewers have focused on is the body shaming. i know both of the mc's were just teasing each other all along but i am pretty sure the author could have come up with something better and less offensive. moreover, i think it's "funny" how the characters with ethnical features were the most mocked ones. however, as i am not a filipino, i don't think i am in the position to give a more exhaustive comment on that.
furthermore, i must agree with everyone saying the writing wasn't the best. maybe i didn't pay much attention to it while reading, but yeah i believe characters can do other things besides blinking. and yes, both of the mc's had childish attitudes throughout the book but what gave me the biggest ick was the sex scene at the end. i must admit that spice is not my cup of tea, however, i believe many people can agree with me when i say that the whole scene had a poor choice of words.
however, i would be lying if i said that i despised it. as i said at the beginning of the review, i acknowledge that i enjoyed reading the book and anyone can see that with a simple look at my annotations.
one thing i absolutely adore about slow burns is how the story revolves around other topics aside from romance. and i loved how important the santos family was in the story. idk, i just cherished their interventions <3 i guess i just wish karina had some important appearance too because all of the mentions of her convinced me that she must be one of the kindest characters in the story. family isn't always given an important place in romance books but im so glad that they were important in this book.
on the other hand, even if jasmine could be super annoying sometimes, i must confess i liked her character at times. for some reason, the fact that she was always pushing herself to do better just to make her family proud or to make everyone forget about her learning issues resonated with me. so yeah her stubbornness was both a strength and a weakness for her character because it was exasperating to see how she wouldn't let anyone take care of her. since we're at it, i really enjoyed the scenes where jasmine was sick and ivan was taking care of her, especially after he was like "if you get sick i won't be the one to take care of you." maybe it's just because one of my love languages is acts of service but idk, i was a sucker for that.
to sum up, the author could have improved many things before publishing the book (most of them could have been solved by just sticking to the skating theme) however i still enjoyed reading it.
Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia
Minor: Car accident
tkatt20's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
This is not my first book by this author so i had an idea of what i was in for, but that could not prepare me for how much I loved this book. The characters are amazing, each one had their own personality and quirks and were so fleshed out, they all felt like real people to me. And I loved how much insight we were given into the competitive skating world and getting to see how both characters dealt with the immense stress they were under. This is a longer romance but it didn’t feel like it with how lovable the characters were and how entertaining the situations they were in were to read about. I loved the extra added layer of family drama we got. It helped break up the focus on their skating and allowed me to see more insight into the main character’s life and her personality while also showing a bit of what drives her to succeed and what effects her mood throughout practice and in her day to day life. We were also given some feminist undertones and that will always be a plus for me.
My only negative for this book and the reason I dropped it down a to a 4.75 is the writing style; more specifically the wording. I found some scenes, mostly in the beginning, didn’t feel very natural and the wording in some descriptions were a little out of left field and pulled me out of the story. This is such a minor grievance and these instances were very sparse and didn’t effect me as much as it could have which is why I didn’t rate it lower. Otherwise I genuinely enjoyed this story to the very end.
I could gush for hours about how much I loved this but I’ll leave it at that. This has quickly moved to the top of my favorites list and I can’t wait to read more by this author.
Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, and Vomit
Minor: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail
zxraa's review against another edition
maybe it was bc it’s really long and it’s a slowburn
Moderate: Body shaming
Minor: Bullying