Reviews with content warning for Mental illness - Icebreaker

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theochick's review

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

The ending was very thematically appropriate but I’m still furious, also I love all these idiots and their big complicated feelings

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jaqylantern's review against another edition

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emotional reflective 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

5.0

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allforevermore's review

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emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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dinosaurari's review against another edition

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emotional 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? Yes

3.0

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homebodynate's review

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emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

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ravenk28's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

A beautiful story about a two boys just trying to achieve their dream of getting drafted in the NHL.

This story follows Mickey who is coming to understand that he is struggling with depression while training for the NHL drafts. In this year he finds his found family through sports, his first love and how to manage his depression in a healthy way with the support of his friends and family.

This story was just beautiful I loved how the author accurately depicted depression and how you can manage it in a healthy way.

I loved Mickey and Jaysen’s relationship it was just so them and cute and once they finally had that talk about what there relationship was *chefs kiss*

His dad 😐 ik ik it’s his job to be away and all but I cant believe he forgot his kid like that. Like how do you buy a house without a room for him

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ashtont's review against another edition

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emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

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12dejamoo's review against another edition

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dark hopeful tense 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

5.0

SCREAMING at the ending! I mean, I do think it was the right choice but also agh!!

Anyway this book was so so good. I had just finished another romance and thought it was really great but this one just blew it out of the park. The characters are so compelling. Mickey's development throughout the story was not a completely smooth journey and it was pretty believeable. As this is a YA, you do assume some sense of resolution at the end, and we got it, but it didn't feel like everything would always be perfect, which I really appreciated.

The main characters are supported by a really strong group of friends and family, who just fill the pages with warmth and joy. There were a lot of them but I never felt like I needed to go back and work out who someone was or what their deal was - anyone who needed in-depth explanation got it.

One note to end with is that I do not know a single thing about ice hockey. Like I worked out a vague sense of what the 'draft' is through the narrative of this book kind of level of knowledge. And this book definitely assumes a level of knowledge. It uses a lot of terminology relevant to ice hockey and it lost me sometimes. Like I know for the story it didn't really matter if I knew every fancy word, but it was also a tiny bit frustrating at times.

But overall, this was really good. I read it on my phone from the library but I would want to go out and get myself a physical copy.

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