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jeanettesreadingcorner'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
- Once I read past 200 or so pages, it’s like the author found the plot and the story actually began. I started to enjoy the characters the romance, and everything else more. Nate and Anastasia are really cute. I enjoyed how they supported each other and their character growth, together and as individuals. The hockey team guys are funny and sweet too. I loved their found family dynamics.
- I’m curious to read Wildfire to see how it compares to this one and I liked the characters enough to continue reading in the Maple Hills book world.
- The ending was astronomically better than the beginning of the book. Overall, I eventually liked Icebreaker and I could see why it’s popular. There are some aspects that bothered me about it though…
- Aaron The Asshole sucks and I hate him, especially the way he treated Anastasia.
- the beginning is a mess. There’s no direction or storyline. The characters are just partying and having sex, talking about sex, or insinuating it. I don’t mind sex scenes and they don’t bother me. However, they don’t need to be so frequent and in every moment the main characters are together. It was just too much in one book. That’s something that I don’t like about adult romance books.
- British phrases in a book set in the USA and the characters are American? So weird. I guess it could be the quirky thing that the author writes but it seemed so odd and out of place to me.
- The book is written in dual pov, which I usually prefer and love, but it did feel repetitive at times in this one.
Graphic: Violence, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Infidelity, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Grief
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Cancer
paigephillips'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
4.25
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Vomit
jamiecl's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
Moderate: Violence, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Body shaming, and Alcohol
Minor: Bullying and Vomit
tspice24'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content
a_ford1'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship
moh_reads'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? No
3.0
Sex scenes were fine. FMC is able to orgasm just from penetration. The almost cartoony cover combined with how explicit some of the scenes were feels like a disaster waiting to happen (I'm just imagining a preteen picking this up at Target and paging though because it looks cute). Ending was super shifty considering
Read only because a friend lent it to me and I felt obligated to finish it. Read the first 40 pages, put it down for about a month, then finished it in a laborious sitting. Extremely unlikely to read any of the author's other works.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Vomit, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship
emcheym's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Sexual content
chellery's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Gaslighting
Moderate: Alcohol
sinaprst's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
things i liked:
- representation of positive therapy experiences
- healthy communication between the main characters
- one side character is in a wheelchair and the book does not make a big deal out of this
- the spice (mostly) didn`t cause me to throw up
things i disliked:
- there was literally no plot and half of the stuff that does happen coud have been left out, there is literally no reason for this to be OVER 400 PAGES LONG
- all side characters felt like cardbord cutouts, they all had like one personality trait and no depth at all
- same goes for the antagonist, who is just shitty for the sake of causing conflict in the main couples' relationship
- also, there are way to many side characters in the first place, most of them get introduced with a bunch of info dumped all over the place, do something that furthers Stassie and Nate`s relationship and then never show up again, it`s confusing, why even introduce them at all????????????????????? maybe, if we had like half the amount of characters, they could have an actual personality and depth instead of just being plot devices
- Anastasia`s nickname: "Stassie"
- they play Never Have I Ever, eventhough they are over the age of 14
- Stassie and Nate do "the no-pants dance", as Nate would say, while he is dressed up as Gru from Despicable Me
- they go to third base in an Uber, with all of their friends present in the front seats
- the hockeyplayers` group chat is called "PUCKBUNNIES"
- Stassies petname for Nate is "bub"
- the epilogue
now, just for fun, some of quotes that that made me want to either cringe or throw up:
Nate keeps sliding [the pucks] in so easily, just like he did with your kitty cat. (p. 97)
Let him puck your mouth, Stassie (p. 97)
Is this what being dicknotized feels like? (p. 146)
That shit is making my vagina scream and I`m not sure she`s ready for the consequences of being a horny little slut... again. (p. 149)
Even my ovaries are screaming (p. 166)
I think he was concentrating on not accidentally poking me with his penis. (p. 204)
suddenly it`s Niagara Falls between my legs. (p. 205)
"If I say it`s a hockey stick, will you play with it?" (p. 205)
"Wanna do the no-pants dance with me?" (p. 244)
"[...] my balls are super toasty." (p. 300)
My nipples pebble under the heat of his glare. (p. 397)
Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault
tgreene507'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
4.75
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Fatphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Abandonment, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse