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jreshsingh26'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
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
jeanettesreadingcorner'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
- Once I read past 200 or so pages, it’s like the author found the plot and the story actually began. I started to enjoy the characters the romance, and everything else more. Nate and Anastasia are really cute. I enjoyed how they supported each other and their character growth, together and as individuals. The hockey team guys are funny and sweet too. I loved their found family dynamics.
- I’m curious to read Wildfire to see how it compares to this one and I liked the characters enough to continue reading in the Maple Hills book world.
- The ending was astronomically better than the beginning of the book. Overall, I eventually liked Icebreaker and I could see why it’s popular. There are some aspects that bothered me about it though…
- Aaron The Asshole sucks and I hate him, especially the way he treated Anastasia.
- the beginning is a mess. There’s no direction or storyline. The characters are just partying and having sex, talking about sex, or insinuating it. I don’t mind sex scenes and they don’t bother me. However, they don’t need to be so frequent and in every moment the main characters are together. It was just too much in one book. That’s something that I don’t like about adult romance books.
- British phrases in a book set in the USA and the characters are American? So weird. I guess it could be the quirky thing that the author writes but it seemed so odd and out of place to me.
- The book is written in dual pov, which I usually prefer and love, but it did feel repetitive at times in this one.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Abandonment, and Alcohol
a_ford1'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
moh_reads's review against another edition
- 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? No
3.0
Sex scenes were fine. FMC is able to orgasm just from penetration. The almost cartoony cover combined with how explicit some of the scenes were feels like a disaster waiting to happen (I'm just imagining a preteen picking this up at Target and paging though because it looks cute). Ending was super shifty considering
Read only because a friend lent it to me and I felt obligated to finish it. Read the first 40 pages, put it down for about a month, then finished it in a laborious sitting. Extremely unlikely to read any of the author's other works.
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Vomit, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
tgreene507's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol
chloeanna's review against another edition
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Dysphoria
lisa07xie'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
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
uranaishi'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? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
dexlud's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
R.I.P Anastasia’s
Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
Minor: Abortion
aniki512'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
3.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Sexual assault, Vomit, and Pregnancy