Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

59 reviews

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

megsbeauty's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

I had such a hard time reading this book. I started reading it six months ago and was in the DNF stage for a while. Then I started it again and stopped after two days. To finally started reading it again a month ago and finished it.
I wouldn't particularly call it a bad read because it's not; it's just that I couldn't relate to the story and main characters whatsoever. But supporting characters were another story and the main reason why I continued reading the series. 

Anyway, overall I see the appeal and why it's so popular, and I do recommend it to readers who like fun and spice (good spice ;))... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

masooma1459's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

reminiscences's review against another edition

slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

hannahgrace23's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexual assault

swamprat410's review

funny lighthearted 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

4.0

 TL;DR: Don't expect a beautifully constructed, insightful book that will change your life, and instead, take it for what it is: a light and spicy, contemporary college romance book with the emotional maturity of the 20-somethings it was written about. 

Storyline is full of tropes: grumpy girl boss and the sunny hockey captain (the lovable father figure of the found family/ragtag team of unruly hockey players) go from enemies-to-lovers who have to overcome limited resources and learn to share the ice. 
 
I read this book as an audiobook and honestly I wish that I'd had a physical book/ebook to read along with for the sole purpose of annotating/keeping notes to keep the sheer number of characters straight.

This book was like being in a college social circle -- in that there are so many people coming and going and at times you have no idea who is going to stick around/be relevant. There were times where I found myself thinking "why do I care/who the hell is this person?" at some of the anecdotal details, but then again, that's probably what builds the universe that the author is creating. 

At times I definitely struggled to get through the story. Anastasia is kind of annoying, there's tons of nicknames (like she has at least 3 I feel like), some of the writing is clunky, and the pacing is weird. Plus there's a lot of stuff that if it happened in real life in your friend group you'd be like uh wtf...

Like if I found out one of my friends was hooking up in an Uber that I was in at the same time as them I'd be pissed. Have some manners girl!! Put some underwear on, knock it off!

But I promised that I would tough it out, and I'm glad I did - Wildfire, the sequel, was much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

emmahe's review against another edition

• 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

3.5

needed a huge edit, it slowed and nearly stalled at the 4/5 way mark, but overall was loveable. characters are good, romance was relatively well paced (rushed for me at 2/5 and 4/5 but that’s okay!). felt like it was too much packed into one book. could have done without the

main character almost drowning in a frozen lake for seemingly no reason

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit and Sexual harassment

idrilcelebrindal's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted sad slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault and Pregnancy

k8lynn's review

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

this book was not worth the hype. 

the narrators were annoying, for one. nothing happens between the drinking scenes and the sex scenes. a lot of aspects fall flat, and there seems to be little to no plot besides getting drunk and fucking. even then, those scenes aren't that great. i enjoyed the found family aspect, but it wasn't as much a focal point as it could have been. the dialogue was pretty realistic but listening to the audiobook felt a bit awkward and gave me a new ick: "baby" and "bub" 🤮

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.25

This book was a 4.5 right up until the epilogue

thats purely because I hate pregnancy stuff so much and it just felt so out of character kinda

apart from that it was good I loved the characters development and how funny the book was also 3 criminal minds mentions had me going insane/pos. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Misogyny