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turnthepages_nl's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
Dominant
Geen romance
Gekibbel en verschuivende relaties
Toen de relatie van hatelijk naar vriendschappelijk begon te verschuiven, veranderde het gekibbel. Maar toen bleef er maar weinig over wat hun relatie voor mij interessant maakte. Ivan begon aardig te doen. Jasmine wist niet wat ze er mee aan moest. En Jasmine werd daardoor erg passief en vlak. Ook bleek later dat Ivan haar nooit heeft gehaat. En haar plaagde omdat hij haar leuk vond. Dat draagt weer bij aan het idee van 'meisjes-plagen-kusjes-vragen'. Een idee dat huiselijk geweld voedt...
Dyslexie
School, falen, zelfbeeld
'Jasmine heeft geen leerstoornis. Ze moet gewoon beter haar best doen'
dan komt dat je zelfbeeld niet ten goede.
Ze was nergens echt goed in, alles op school kostte haar ontzettend veel moeite. Maar zodra ze op het ijs stond ging het vanzelf. Daar wist haar lichaam wat het moest doen. Het was zo natuurlijk als ademen. Daarom stortte ze zich volledig op het kunstschaatsen. Eindelijk iets wat ze goed kon, waardoor ze zich speciaal voelde. Levend. En als ze ergens haar tanden in zet laat ze niet meer los. Want ze is een doorzetter, een harde werker en absoluut geen opgever. Dat is waarschijnlijk deels hoe ze is als persoon, en deels hoe ze heeft moeten worden om het op school te redden...
Kracht ondermijnend
Spicy time
Ivan was dominant en deed wat hij wilde zonder verbale consent. Ze zegt dat ze aan de pil is en dat is blijkbaar het signaal dat condooms niet nodig zijn? Maar er wordt niet gesproken over SOA's en hun status. Dat gecombineerd met het gebrek aan consent gaf me de bibbers. Vervolgens lees je dat het Jasmine pijn deed. En dat ze dat nooit zou zeggen. Wat voor veilige omgeving heb je dan? Als je niet tegen je partner kan zeggen dat het pijn doet. (En dit was geen kinky pijn, dit was pijn omdat het te snel ging). Haar lichaam was er duidelijk nog niet klaar voor. Ivan had daarbij compleet de leiding en deed met haar lijf wat HIJ wilde en had geen aandacht voor haar leek het.
Hoe het er stond vergroot weer de mythe dat het normaal is dat seks (in het begin) pijn doet. Seks hoort geen pijn te doen. Nooit. Tenzij je aan pain/pleasure spel doet maar dat is een ander verhaal.
Ook dringt hij aan op een tweede ronde. Jasmine zegt half grappend dat ze niet heeft aangegeven dat ze daar zin in heeft. En zijn antwoord is dat hij haar heeft laten klaarkomen. Als of dat een reden is om nog weer seks te hebben?!!
Ik ben echt geschokt door alle slechte dingen in deze seks scène. Ik denk niet dat ik ooit nog weer een Mariana Zapata boek zal lezen...
Graphic: Ableism, Cursing, Stalking, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, and Medical content
Minor: Vomit and Car accident
midnightmoon_dreamer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
annadelreads'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? No
5.0
“Because I'm okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you're always going to be my favorite person.”
This was on my top 24 TBRs in 2024 and I'm so glad I tackled it already because I would hate myself if I were not to read this ever. Basing from the reels I've been seeing in Bookstagram, I know for sure I would love to get my hands on a copy of this book. So when I saw it available on my usual online seller (that had to wait months to arrive), I immediately bought it. I'm not sure why I didn't reach for it as soon as it had arrived last November - I need to slap the old me for that. This month though, I was in a big mood reader so I wasn't trusting my TBR jar to make the choice. It took a few hours for me to decide and finally reached out for From Lukov With Love. Best decision this April so far too.
I love stories that revolves in any sport on ice. I'm not sure what it is about but there's always something graceful about people on ice. What I did not expect was a story about pair figure skaters. I was also unaware that this was an enemies-to-lovers? Anna, why don't you ever read the synopsis at the back of the book? It's there for a reason. But I always love going in blindly when it comes to books. I trust people so much in the net that I don't even bother reading what it was about. I wasn't even disappointed at all. I love it as soon as I hit more than 10% of the book. I always love banters in books but this level of banters between the main characters are on a different level. I was laughing out loud on several occasions and just kept on wishing for these two to get together. I knew Mariana is known her slow burn stories but girl, I did not expect this kind of slow burn. I was shookedt. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting and more waiting for them to get together but bro...it took
Of course, it wasn't just a romance book. To be honest, it's more of a family story type of book because it literally focused on Jasmine and her relationship with her family. I can't get over her relationship with her dad because I relate so much to it. Jasmine felt not loved because of her career path and it' just simply because their family ain't the affectionate ones and have different love language that can't easily be understood. Ugh. I wanted to hug Jasmine so much. It's a good thing Ivan was there to do it for us readers.
10/10 will recommend.
Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Stalking
Minor: Racism and Toxic relationship
tessasreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, and Stalking
Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Car accident and Alcohol
hannibanani29'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? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Stalking
Moderate: Body shaming, Medical content, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, Vomit, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
hapalyn'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Body shaming and Stalking
Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
leonormsousa's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
nora_knight's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
I liked Ivan and Jasmine's dynamic and I thought a lot of their relationship was cute. Also, the figure skating pair Scott-and-Tessa energy was fun. But I didn't like how many comments there were abt Jasmine's weight and I hated that his nickname for her was "Meatball" WTF. Also, the writing was not good and practically every third word was a curse word, which seemed unnecessary. There were a bunch of things that got brought up once and then were never/rarely mentioned after, it seemed like they were forgotten about and it made the plot hard to follow.
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Medical content
fremzz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
The visceral reactions this got from me are actually mental like every three seconds I was giggling or screaming or crying and that epilogue had me on the floor crying help help help
Had its issues but I pretend I do not see 🫡 (really it was just the meatball thing cause that was weird).
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit
ididnotmakeapie'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
3.25
There were a few really, really poignant, emotive scenes.
I enjoyed the way the actual *romantic* relationship between the two main characters came to be.
I really liked Jasmine's family, all the character's were very vivid and well characterised. Also liked the casual rep from Jojo and James' marriage.
The A and B plots all intertwined well to create the overarching theme of Jasmine's renewed confidence in herself.
I liked a lot of what Jasmine herself had going on as a character and her drive is inspirational.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Fatphobia, Racism, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail