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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

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helenaps99's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

2.25

I had a good time with this book for the first like…250 pages, and that was mostly because of the smut.

But I have a lot of gripes.

The timeline and movement of the relationship between Nate and Stassie was a damn rollercoaster and I wish the sexual tension/friendship had been built more before they started fucking, it felt like it moved VERY quickly in the beginning and then hit a stagnation for like…the rest of the book.

We love a girl in therapy and no one likes a miscommunication trope but like…no two 21 year olds are talking about their feelings THIS much, especially at first in an undefined situationship. Like, leave a little to the imagination for better characters, and you’ll ones who actually have flaws and don’t narrate the exact personality and character traits of each other. Some things are better implied and the dual POV already gives us insight into both of them so not everything needs to be repeated.

I think so much of the narrative was just over explaining things whether it was feelings or family situations or friend situations or eating plans or whatever - the book could’ve been shortened by 200 pages if there was significantly less telling and more showing.

What was with the like motif of pregnancy?? It popped up several times for various characters and was kind of weird.

There were so many side characters of hockey players and other friends and coaches and directors I totally lost track of who was who.

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saretta02's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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? No

5.0

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lucyslife's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

Very glad I picked this book up even after seeing a lot of people don't like it. I thought it was very cute and it was definitely cringey but not in a bad way. I can see how it is not to everyone's taste but I think it works well as a pallet cleanser, especially after finishing something like a dark romance.

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beth_3004's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-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

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maddie_mac's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-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

3.75

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caitlin_d33's review against another edition

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emotional funny medium-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? No

4.0

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burchama's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

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justmudlynnabout's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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mosha_pl's review against another edition

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I don’t think I have ever truly hated or DNF’d a book. I’ve never contemplated even returning a book. (I couldn’t because it had been passed it’s return date)

And this is not to hate on the author I feel bad to have not liked this book. The massive hype and craze over Icebreaker has been its down fall in my opinion, for expectations we’re not at all met and I was left not even interested to see if this pair got together or not.

I don’t fantasize having a situationship where one pines more for the other. And the amount of sex in this book could have been great had it not been so fast, so cheesy or so commercially for me. It was written with the simplicity of a YA fiction, easy to read but with adult content where the characters weren’t fleshed out enough for me to care and relationships/feelings were rushed. There was no pining just immediate lust and trust (then mistrust then lust and more mistrust and most of the time I was like why???)

It felt sloppy and not relatable. Even a situationship in real life can have more than this weird back and forth between the two where I couldn’t even understand how one could fall for the other. Unfortunately I didn’t care enough to keep reading to even see where the unremarkable characters ended up.

DNF’d until someone can convince me otherwise.

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zandile_ngwenya's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny informative tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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