Reviews with content warning for Eating disorder - Icebreaker

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anilourengo's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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rkw2017's review against another edition

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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

4.0

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denissc2736's review against another edition

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fast-paced

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

2.75

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skitson's review against another edition

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funny medium-paced

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

3.25

For being one of, if not the most, “smut” labeled book of the last couple of years, I actually really enjoyed it. I think it’s written fairly well, and, as someone who doesn’t enjoy sex scenes, I just got through those to enjoy the rest of the story. But if you like smut and sex scenes, this is the book for you

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yoruuxd's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

I am very torn with this book.
When it first came out, I heard nothing but amazing things and I was so excited to read it. Finally, we were having a return to cutesie, fluffy, YA romance in a sea of serious, long form high fantasy.
After a while, I then heard nothing but negative things, with the biggest sin being its own marketing. It bacon the face of book-tok with everyone talking about it as a cute romance book that touches on more serious topics such as toxic relationships, disordered eating and anxiety but not a single person directly addressing the fact that his book is smutty as hell. It’s marketing as a soft romance, enemies to lovers and even its front cover is a cutesie soft pastel illustration. It became - and continues to be - such a problem that it’s frequently put in YA sections at book stores in spite of it, again, containing multiple explicit scenes. There is nothing about the cover or marketing or book description that indicate it could be anything other than a teen romcom.
To be clear, it’s a decent book. Yes, the writing is cringy in places. It has the distinct feeling of a millennial being down with the kids and I personally dont understand why people hate on this and similar writing when there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s so cute, the characters are fun and likeable, the story is relatable even at its ‘darker’ moments and has so many feet kicking giggle enduring moments. I recommend it for a fun romcom read but, again, it is a smutty book. The smut is well written, but it continues to be marketed - both professionally and on booktok - as a YA book when it absolutely shouldn’t be.
Also, I spent the last half of the book on edge that it was going to end on an accidental pregnancy, when I looked it up everywhere said there wasn’t one and then BAM accidental pregnancy in the epilogue. Yes, they’re both happy about it but it’s still there.
Overall, it is a really fun, cute and hot read that has unfortunate overarching consequences to the reading space.

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naomis_library05's review

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funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

2.25

Holy moly I did it and my god do I have thoughts on this book. First of the bat a question everyone who gave this book 5 stars did we even read the same Fucking book?! I think like Anastasia the people who gave this 5 stars need therapy. If I could take off my ears and not listen to this I so would. But I like torturing myself so I pushed through it's awsome to make schoolwork while listening to this, because the book is already more boring than my schoolwork. From some cute moments here and there the rest is straight up bad writing and disgusting. Anastasia is the most childish person sometimes like oh god communicate please. There's more sex than there is plot and both are still written terribly. The thing is this book also talks about eating disorders and thats something we all should collectivly do more having seen multiple people including myself struggle with this but I would've loved if it gave a more realistic side of it and spend more time on it. The only people I like in this book in order are: The dog, Henry, Stacie's mom and dad, the other hockey guys and Lola. Also what the fuck is the most stupid nickname she could give him Bub like what the fuck it's disgusting it sounds like talking to a baby.

The best scene in this book was the part where Nate finally got to slap Aaron across the face. Love that she did atleast won the Olympics but tell me why they had to put a baby at the end like I'm suffering and them also reffering to her as winnie the pooh like lord don't discriminate that bear. Also why did the book end with a proposal like yes I get it but please atleast also give us the marriage scene then.

I'm glad this is over and yes I liked the suffering it made me focus on my schoolwork and cleaning my room that I most definitely had to finish. Even though I will despise this book I can't help but admit that that I did giggle here and there to some lines or scene's. And I might have cried but don't worry that was at the part where her parents where supporting her through thick and thin and everything she went through and even her dad supporting Nate through his games while his own father didn't I think that was the most beautiful in this book. And with that said my rant is over.

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lum1nka's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

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

2.5

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ruusunenannika's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-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

4.0

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jax10124's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Good book. Standard hockey romance.
Spicy 🌶️ spice 😉

I liked the discussions about therapy and normalization of that.

Lola is my favourite character.

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