Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

50 reviews

tadhgdoran08's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abandonment

anjasfairylights's review against another edition

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

3.75

Okay so I liked quite a lot about this book, especially all about friendship and platonic love, but damn it was so toxic sometimes? I get that toxic relationships shouldn‘t be overlooked in all our smut-loving delight but phew, you can‘t fix it all with some half-hearted therapy scenes and lots of sex.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent and Pregnancy

ellelockley's review against another edition

lighthearted 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? No

1.0

This book follows Anastasia, a figure skater, and Nate, a hockey player and their relationship together. This books is awful, it's for people who evidently never went through their wattpad phase. There are too many sex scenes that contribute nothing to the story. The author creates what could be a new character development or arc just to destroy it to make Anastasia look more innocent and like the victim. Now I do like how it tackles some of the toxic diet culture around professional athletes but that was the only thing I thought it did well. It took me over 5 months to read because it was not an enjoyable read. I have never rated a book 1 star before so if that says something. The lack of communication is astounding. I do not recommend reading this book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment

callidoralblack's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

shaipanda's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-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

4.75

I absolutely loveddd this and really enjoyed it overall but some of the stuff in the third act/last 10-20% of the book bothered me and reduced it a bit

I can’t put my finger on exactly what it was that bothered me but I think it was a combination of too many things going on at the end that weren’t really fully wrapped up, her ending up pregnant which was just unnecessary and also a bit frustrating since it clearly at least temporarily ends her pro skating career and also contradicts them talking about adoption, and just generally the whole thing with Aaron was so long and at some point it just became too much and started annoying me a bit - I also generally agree with the reviews talking abt how it’s too long cause I think a lot of these issues could’ve been solved by making it a bit shorter.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

The sexual assaults is a very abrupt and non consensual kiss but thankfully doesn’t go any further but is still something to be aware of

demy_summer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

meaghanslibrary's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

I’m between a 3.5 and 3.75 but I’m going to the higher end actually changed my mind while writing the review.

The spicy scenes are definitely spice.

The book though is a bit too long and dragged at the end yet also the ending felt very rushed.

I wish there was more character development with the evil friend I am totally blanking on his name. Like he just seemed pure bad and I didn’t really feel for his character even when Stas was saying he was good. He fell flat for me. Actually all the characters fell a little flat I think I’m going to drop by rating down to 3.5. All the characters seemed all good or all bad there wasn’t really an in between. Or at least any discussion of an in between, like Nathan was very controlling at points.

If you like spice the book is good for that, nice quick read. Will probably read this author again. Not a top romance author like Emily Henry but still enjoyable to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

heyheylwoabaha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

i hate aaron. thats all i have to say

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

lynini's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

nagisasigh's review against another edition

funny inspiring 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

Listen, Im not for or against this book per say. It had some really cute moments and places where I found pieces of writing that I loved. The ending felt a little rushed, however and

the pregnancy

kinda ruined the vibe for me. Nate is sweet tho!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent and Abandonment