Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

247 reviews

macykey's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This book is very long and there were some things I felt could be cut out, some relationships I felt could be tamed down. But overall, I really enjoyed this! The spicy scenes were excellent. Nate as a character is phenomenal. He’s a great example of what healthy masculinity looks like without being perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cursing, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Vomit, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Grief

mmadill227's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

rachellew's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent

amylouisereads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

When something has the sort of hype this book does I’m always a bit dubious as to whether or not to read it as I feel it can never live up to it but I enjoyed this.

I liked the characters, they were well built and believable and I enjoyed the storyline too.

even if we never did get Aaron’s motive for being awful to Stasia

It was a cute read, I wasn’t amazed by it but that’s usually the case with a college romance. It reminded me a little of Elle kennedys hockey series. 

I’ll definitely read the rest in the series when they come out 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship and Eating disorder

Minor: Death of parent

literallylaura's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent and Sexual harassment

mindins's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

El resumen de este libro es: En términos, de trama no hay trama.

La idea era muy buena, pero nunca llegó a ser un enemies to lovers, fue un insta-love, donde trataron de crear una rivalidad que nunca existió. De hecho el tema del hielo derretido pudo ser usado para muchas situaciones pero nada.

Las escenas spicy fueron para mi fueron innecesariamente largas, repetitivas y daban un poco de cringe. La pareja estuvo junta al 40% del libro y el resto fue relleno poco interesante. Tiene 0.5 estrellitas sólo porque el tema del amigo tóxico estuvo bien, aunque para tanto escandalo se resolvió como la misma protagonista dijo que no quería que se solucionara, y por como se abordó el asunto de la terapia.

El final fue malísimo y predecible. No pude conectar con los protagonistas en ningún momento y si no estaban culeando, estaban de fiesta y curándose a cagar sólo para "olvidar y relajarse".

En general no entiendo porqué alguien leería esto y lo recomendaría, definitivamente no le hace justicia al hype. Aunque si quieres leer porn without plot, monólogos internos extremadamente repetitivos y ver nombres y nombres de personajes que ni aportan nada, es para ti.

Dato random: No pasa el Test de Bechdel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Death of parent and Pregnancy

sarahflanders's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Vomit, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Pregnancy, and Cancer

heyitsshan's review against another edition

funny hopeful medium-paced

• 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? No

3.0

pros
the concept is adorable. you can’t get much cuter than an ice skater and a hockey player.
great side characters. like, fucking adorable

cons
way too long
the main conflict happens around the 200 page mark but by then the two main characters are already together sooooo
the main character is adopted and she says she wants to adopt children. but she ends up pregnant in the epilogue anyways 🙃
too many nicknames. i would be happy never reading annie, anastasia, stas, stassie, nate, nathan, or nathaniel ever again

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy

shaipanda's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• 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? Yes

4.75

I absolutely loveddd this and really enjoyed it overall but some of the stuff in the third act/last 10-20% of the book bothered me and reduced it a bit

I can’t put my finger on exactly what it was that bothered me but I think it was a combination of too many things going on at the end that weren’t really fully wrapped up, her ending up pregnant which was just unnecessary and also a bit frustrating since it clearly at least temporarily ends her pro skating career and also contradicts them talking about adoption, and just generally the whole thing with Aaron was so long and at some point it just became too much and started annoying me a bit - I also generally agree with the reviews talking abt how it’s too long cause I think a lot of these issues could’ve been solved by making it a bit shorter.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

The sexual assaults is a very abrupt and non consensual kiss but thankfully doesn’t go any further but is still something to be aware of

hannaws's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent