Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

320 reviews

mrsmonty503's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

I just love Nathan Hawkins so much. I held off on reading this for so long and I am kind of mad at myself for waiting to read this. He is one of the best MMC i’ve ever read. He fell so hard for Anastasia and I loved the way that their relationship evolved! 


My god.. Aaron can go suck a big one. He is one of the most sleazy characters I have ever read. 

Anastasia was holding onto a relationship that no longer served her. She gave numerous outs for Aaron and he never deserved any of them. Aaron is such an egotistical douche canoe. The why that he treated Anastasia, was so horrible. Controlling and he almost had her fooled. He had everyone fooled especially her and Coach Brady.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, and Death of parent

briony_2010's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

entanglednovels's review against another edition

funny lighthearted tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse and Eating disorder

whatlacereads's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual content, Eating disorder, and Pregnancy

enzopudge's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Eating disorder

cinderrunner's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.75

The book was cute. The relationship was cute. There were some genuinely precious moments that gave me butterflies. I would have rated it higher if not for two things. 1) Aaron was ABUSIVE and that is never properly tackled. The behavior he exhibits is incredibly dangerous. He

sexually assualts

Anastasia. But it is never called that. He is never held accountable, he never faces consequences, and even when Anastasia does cut him off the gravity of what he did is underplayed in the plot. I believe everything he did was premeditated, i cannot accept that

he didnt know he was underfeeding Anastasia (especially given how she calls him out for lifting well over her body weight. Why would he make such a fuss about her weight if he could lift it unless he was trying to exert power over her and manipulate her relationship to food to keep her dependent on him? Which would fall under emotional abuse btw).

, and given that he intentionally lied about

how he broke his arm (again in order to try to manipulate her)

it only stands to reason that he knew damn well what he was doing the whole time. The characters are constantly trying to either excuse his behavior, justify it, or questioning what his motives could possibly be. But nobody (even Anastasia with all her therapy) ever points out the obvious of him being an abuser and him wanting control over his victim. Seriously, Aaron was textbook red flag abuser. The way it is downplayed in this book truly disgusts me. If you ever meet someone like Aaron, RUN. 2) i HATE a

pregnancy

trope and that epilogue pissed me off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Alcohol, Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse

bobbeym's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Gaslighting

Minor: Bullying

mkzach's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

patato's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book has good smut, an awesome group of friends, feels realistic when it comes to their shenanigans, funny at times and has some representation, which is important and welcomed. I was willing to bump up the rating up to a three since despite the way the book dragged on and on, as it was still well written and fun, but I hated how

she went back to accept Aaron as her work partner and even go therapy with him, setting herself back to that toxic environment, when it was clear that he wouldn't and didn't want to change either. He went to the point of triggering an ED on her and that shouldn't be taken lightly. She clearly had self-esteem issues and that rascisistic pos wouldn't help her recover the more therapy she did.

So this did turn me off and from there I basically just skimmed through to see how it would end, because I got bored and didn't want to have to read about her dealing with Aaron anymore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Minor: Death and Alcohol

sldibened's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

Entertaining and an easy read. Only qualm is there are a lottttt of characters which made it confusing and tricky to follow at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Pregnancy