Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

568 reviews

squid_marie's review against another edition

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

2.75

Get outta here with that unnecessary epilogue. We really didn’t need to see how picture perfect everything possible could turn out. Should’ve just ended with the crab hands quote. Quite literally ruined the rest of the book for me when

I thoroughly enjoyed all the spice, romance, and banter between friends.

It started to get unbearably corny towards the end until it was borderline what the fuck.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

lovetoread_1's review against another edition

emotional funny tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Body shaming and Alcohol

Very very spicy. Deals with heavy topics. adoption shaming

purple_tulip's review

emotional funny relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming and Eating disorder

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

booklover6000's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.25

For those interested, Icebreaker by Hannah Grace is a sports romance between two characters, Nathan Hawkins and Anastasia Allen, who is a hockey player and an ice Skater. The banter within the book was cute, the conversations and the friendships adorable. But there were more dislikes than likes. The style of writing, wasn’t a fan. The plot, couldn’t tell you. The characters themselves were non-favorable and the development within the characters wen’t downhill, not uphill. Overall, wish I spent time reading something else.

Recommend? No, I wouldn’t
Warnings? Below
Continuation of the series? Definitely not

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming and Cursing

Minor: Emotional abuse, Violence, and Vomit

catastrophiclyss's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

gizelleinak's review

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

1.5

I reserve 1 star for DNF but I cannot recommend this. Listened as audiobook and while I finished it out of some weird desire to see if it would get better, I can say it did not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

chluless'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

I folded.

And suddenly I understand, ‘I didn’t say it was good, I said I enjoyed it.’ Icebreaker has a flimsy plot, the pacing is off, and the characters are too numerous to be distinguishable, but you know what?

I had FUN

Not all of this was my cup of tea. I had several icks, but as a notorious contemporary romance hater, I actually enjoyed this a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Death of parent

acrosstheskyinstars's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

cedowell1's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.5

Way too long. Barely a plot. Lost a star because of the final 20% of the book. 🙄

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Emotional abuse

preslava1503's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-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

2.75

A quick love story, nothing to be amazed about it, but everyone needs a little bit of a simple romance sometimes. No complex characters here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Sexual content

Minor: Violence