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Thrown Off the Ice
by Taylor Fitzpatrick
Again, I’m in the minority here, and I can’t say I’m surprised, because with no synopsis and only good ratings, I just had to know for myself why this book was so high-rated among my friends. The hype was over-whelming and truth is, my curiosity win over my guts.
Unfortunately, Thrown off the Ice was not my cup of tea. But if you’re interested in knowing what’s this book about is basically the story of Mike, a 30 year old hokey player, and Liam, the 18 year old rookie that falls in love with him, despite his awful personality traits.
And let’s be clear about something: age gaps that are beyond 5 years between the MCs always make me feel uncomfortable, and for me to like them, they have to complement each other really well, because if not, I’ll only end up hating their relationship.
So it's no surprise that I didn’t like Liam and Mike as a couple because the only thing they worked just fine was sex time. In fact I think Liam deserve better, because whenever things got rough, Mike was always like We’re not a couple, you’re better off without me without even considering Liam’s feelings. He was young indeed, but Mike should have known better. He didn’t want to have a relationship, yet he didn’t know how to let the kid made his own life.
Shitty as it might seem, I kind of understood where Mike was coming from, being emotionally constipated, but man, he never, not once, told Liam he loved him, or that he actually cared for him, even when Liam sacrificed a lot for him, and had to live with his problems too. Now, I do get he was struggling with his body not functioning the same way, and not being able to have a walk without feeling dizzy, but you don’t have to be an asshole all the freaking time!
To be honest, I only liked the last two chapters in the whole book, and that’s because one of them was told by Liam’s POV. And he summed the whole book up in an article he wrote.
I truly wonder why I didn’t DNF this book when I realized it didn’t have something that I liked. It’s not that I hate it, is just that I didn’t enjoy anything in particular. I guess the only thing that kept me going was the fact that I wanted to know what happened to Mike after he jot injured for real, because a degenerative disease such as Parkinson is something that many people have to deal with in real life.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll ever read other works from the author, and perhaps that’s a shame since everybody seemed to love this.
Unfortunately, Thrown off the Ice was not my cup of tea. But if you’re interested in knowing what’s this book about is basically the story of Mike, a 30 year old hokey player, and Liam, the 18 year old rookie that falls in love with him, despite his awful personality traits.
And let’s be clear about something: age gaps that are beyond 5 years between the MCs always make me feel uncomfortable, and for me to like them, they have to complement each other really well, because if not, I’ll only end up hating their relationship.
So it's no surprise that I didn’t like Liam and Mike as a couple because the only thing they worked just fine was sex time. In fact I think Liam deserve better, because whenever things got rough, Mike was always like We’re not a couple, you’re better off without me without even considering Liam’s feelings. He was young indeed, but Mike should have known better. He didn’t want to have a relationship, yet he didn’t know how to let the kid made his own life.
Shitty as it might seem, I kind of understood where Mike was coming from, being emotionally constipated, but man, he never, not once, told Liam he loved him, or that he actually cared for him, even when Liam sacrificed a lot for him, and had to live with his problems too. Now, I do get he was struggling with his body not functioning the same way, and not being able to have a walk without feeling dizzy, but you don’t have to be an asshole all the freaking time!
To be honest, I only liked the last two chapters in the whole book, and that’s because one of them was told by Liam’s POV. And he summed the whole book up in an article he wrote.
I truly wonder why I didn’t DNF this book when I realized it didn’t have something that I liked. It’s not that I hate it, is just that I didn’t enjoy anything in particular. I guess the only thing that kept me going was the fact that I wanted to know what happened to Mike after he jot injured for real, because a degenerative disease such as Parkinson is something that many people have to deal with in real life.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll ever read other works from the author, and perhaps that’s a shame since everybody seemed to love this.