Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

35 reviews

kristicanread's review

emotional hopeful relaxing 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Eating disorder

emhaze's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The only thing I have to say is, if I hear the name Aaron one more time I’m fkn punching whoever said it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit

meganpbennett's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

1.0

If this book had been about a hundred and fifty pages shorter, I might have liked it. I still would have found it completely overhyped, but I would have been far less disappointed.

The biggest issue is that there is basically no plot, and when the plot does finally kick in - 40% of the way through the book - it's somehow sidelined. Don't promise me something in the summary and then make me wait 210 pages for it. Because of this, the book dragged on. I found that it had far too much filler and not enough plot. It needed more hockey, more skating, and far less drinking and college students hooking up. On top of that, I found Anastasia to be a whiny and unlikable character. She didn't act like a college senior with Olympic aspirations, but a middle school girl. The book has a perfect set-up for a slow burn, not-quite enemies to lovers, and blew it by having no plot.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Vomit, Mental illness, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

maddysoup's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.25

if this would have had an editor it would have benefited so greatly. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Death of parent

abidavisf's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

I was prepared to fall head over heels in love with Icebreaker and it did capture my attention, but I found myself feeling like, for such a long book, a lot of scenes were rushed.

I’d heard a lot about Icebreaker: that it’s spicy (I would say it’s spice adjacent), that’s its emotional (I would say it could have been had the more serious scenes been broken down more), and that it’s addictive (I have been thinking about it a lot but more in a ‘why did it play out like that?’ kind of way).

Icebreaker is an easy read if that is what you are looking for. It touches on some really important and hard topics and handles them well. It also has a diverse cast of characters which is refreshing. I would say, however, that it lacks depth and you may find yourself wanting to know more than you are being given.

I’m definitely interested to read Wildfire so stay tuned for my thoughts on that. I’ve heard it’s a lot more thorough.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Vomit, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Sexism

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

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

Moderate: Pregnancy and Death of parent

ellelockley's review

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

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

shaipanda's review

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, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

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

Minor: Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

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