A review by moh_reads
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

lighthearted slow-paced
  • 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

It was fine. Writing was meh. Lots of telling, not showing. Characterization didn't feel consistent. FMC was unrealistically snotty towards the MMC in the beginning just for the sake of the author writing hate sex scenes. She was also hyper oblivious to the antagonist being abusive despite being her very therapeutized. First third dragged. I had to power through most of the book. There were some fourth wall breaking moments that really took me out of it. 

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
they explicitly talked about her not wanting to get pregnant until she achieved some major career goals - felt like it really undermined how ambitious she was made out to be. Also getting pregnant after one time of throwing up the pill felt cheap.


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. 
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