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A review by bookishafternoon
Icebound by Meredith Trapp
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
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Icebound is an age gap SPICY hockey romance about 33-year-old sexiest bachelor and NHL superstar Rhode Tremblay and 22-year-old Nina Alstyne who’s an art student in his little sisters class and getting ready to leave for an internship abroad.
Rhode is looking for someone to settle down with. Someone his age who’s ready to start a family and follow him while he continues his hockey career.
Nina is a free-spirited college student who prioritizes her studies and is no where near ready to settle down and have a family and the idea of being in the spotlight gives her anxiety. There’s a big mental health representation in her character, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks in this book. I like that a lot, to others it may be triggering.
I should have been able to read this book in 3-4 days but college courses are in full swing and I was sooooo busy. It was the worst! I thought the speed throughout the book was very medium-paced and well done.
Something about this book just didn’t do it for me. I really love cute romance books but I think how the spice was portrayed in this book takes that away from me. I feel like their entire relationship is founded on sex and there’s not a lot of depth to create an actual romance. It just felt a little superficial to me. However, I can tell the author wanted to create a spice-forward book and she did just that.
I also had a hard time connecting with the characters, I think it’s because their thoughts 75% of the book are the equivalency of a horny teenage boys diary. 🤷🏼♀️
Icebound is an age gap SPICY hockey romance about 33-year-old sexiest bachelor and NHL superstar Rhode Tremblay and 22-year-old Nina Alstyne who’s an art student in his little sisters class and getting ready to leave for an internship abroad.
Rhode is looking for someone to settle down with. Someone his age who’s ready to start a family and follow him while he continues his hockey career.
Nina is a free-spirited college student who prioritizes her studies and is no where near ready to settle down and have a family and the idea of being in the spotlight gives her anxiety. There’s a big mental health representation in her character, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks in this book. I like that a lot, to others it may be triggering.
I should have been able to read this book in 3-4 days but college courses are in full swing and I was sooooo busy. It was the worst! I thought the speed throughout the book was very medium-paced and well done.
Something about this book just didn’t do it for me. I really love cute romance books but I think how the spice was portrayed in this book takes that away from me. I feel like their entire relationship is founded on sex and there’s not a lot of depth to create an actual romance. It just felt a little superficial to me. However, I can tell the author wanted to create a spice-forward book and she did just that.
I also had a hard time connecting with the characters, I think it’s because their thoughts 75% of the book are the equivalency of a horny teenage boys diary. 🤷🏼♀️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness