A review by toastyghosty13
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

emotional funny lighthearted 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

i did not expect to like this as much as i did!! this book doesn’t take itself too seriously and it is generally a cute rivals to lovers story with some great side characters.

main complaints:
  • weird grammar/sentence structure things throughout the book
  • depending on what copy you have, stassies best friend could be either lola or sabrina. i wish mine was the sabrina copy after i learned this bc it seems like she has a lot more of a fun presence and is a deeper character than lola
  • the cover of this book looks like a YA cutesy romance novel but this book has an insane amount of descriptive sex, seriously i was not expecting this also the
    uber
    scene stressed me tf out 
  • i hated that the epilogue is stassi pregnant. she says at one point that she wants to adopt because she was adopted, so it feels untrue to her character. the reasoning for her pregnancy also bothered me, stating that she threw up her birth control on a morning of high anxiety. i wish the ending had her going to the olympics multiple times, and that it was more than just a measly 2 years later. she deserved as much and it could have done a 5-7 year later of her being pregnant that would have felt less forced
  • aaron deserved to get shat on hard; he got off so easy in the end it’s such a joke. aaron sucks and really should have had a different ending than just transferring to ucla

in terms of semantics, i thought this ended up being a cute story of many enjoyable characters. i am not one that usually likes romance novels if there is no fantasy element to it, but i will admit hockey players are a huge weakness for me which def helped. i recommend if you want an easy spicy read to mix it up between other books!
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