Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

172 reviews

ceredonia's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

swamprat410's review against another edition

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• 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

4.0

 TL;DR: Don't expect a beautifully constructed, insightful book that will change your life, and instead, take it for what it is: a light and spicy, contemporary college romance book with the emotional maturity of the 20-somethings it was written about. 

Storyline is full of tropes: grumpy girl boss and the sunny hockey captain (the lovable father figure of the found family/ragtag team of unruly hockey players) go from enemies-to-lovers who have to overcome limited resources and learn to share the ice. 
 
I read this book as an audiobook and honestly I wish that I'd had a physical book/ebook to read along with for the sole purpose of annotating/keeping notes to keep the sheer number of characters straight.

This book was like being in a college social circle -- in that there are so many people coming and going and at times you have no idea who is going to stick around/be relevant. There were times where I found myself thinking "why do I care/who the hell is this person?" at some of the anecdotal details, but then again, that's probably what builds the universe that the author is creating. 

At times I definitely struggled to get through the story. Anastasia is kind of annoying, there's tons of nicknames (like she has at least 3 I feel like), some of the writing is clunky, and the pacing is weird. Plus there's a lot of stuff that if it happened in real life in your friend group you'd be like uh wtf...

Like if I found out one of my friends was hooking up in an Uber that I was in at the same time as them I'd be pissed. Have some manners girl!! Put some underwear on, knock it off!

But I promised that I would tough it out, and I'm glad I did - Wildfire, the sequel, was much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

cailyndanae's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy and Sexual harassment

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-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

4.25

This book was a 4.5 right up until the epilogue

thats purely because I hate pregnancy stuff so much and it just felt so out of character kinda

apart from that it was good I loved the characters development and how funny the book was also 3 criminal minds mentions had me going insane/pos. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Minor: Misogyny

smilagros's review against another edition

funny lighthearted fast-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

4.5

This was so fun. I was giggling and kicking my feet in the air a majority of the time. I was swooning HARD for Nathan and I need someone to clone him for me ASAP Rocky. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

samspur's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

1.0

I still don’t understand the appeal. It was just a really long, not well written, lacking depth, semi-erotic, half developed hockey story. The main male character had all the red flags. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

defunctfridge's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

cute! but could have been shorter and the last chapter

having sudden gold medals, pregnancy, And a proposal  kinda ruined the vibes for me ://

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Mental illness, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault and Pregnancy

iida_a's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

thereadingfairy's review against another edition

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

The cover of this book misleadingly makes it look like a cute, innocent, lighthearted romance. The characters and their relationships, however, are certainly not ‘innocent’. Most of the book is more about lust than love, which I personally didn’t want to read.