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A review by swamprat410
Wildfire by Hannah Grace
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
4.0
If you're on the fence about reading this book after you read Icebreaker and you're thinking "am I really up for this again?", give it a try.
I liked the characters in this book more than I did in Icebreaker and setting the book at a summer camp with nothing really to do with Maple Hills or the hockey team was a nice change of pace. It was nice to be able to build on the foundation that Hannah Grace set up in the first book without having to deal with Anastasia and Nate's nonsense.
Like I said after reading the first book of the series--if you manage your expectations and don't go into it thinking that it's going to change your world view, you'll probably have a happier outcome. This isn't a book that will change your world view, it's what you'd expect -- a book about a group of college students with some hockey, romance novel tropes, and spicy bits sprinkled in.
I liked the characters in this book more than I did in Icebreaker and setting the book at a summer camp with nothing really to do with Maple Hills or the hockey team was a nice change of pace. It was nice to be able to build on the foundation that Hannah Grace set up in the first book without having to deal with Anastasia and Nate's nonsense.
Like I said after reading the first book of the series--if you manage your expectations and don't go into it thinking that it's going to change your world view, you'll probably have a happier outcome. This isn't a book that will change your world view, it's what you'd expect -- a book about a group of college students with some hockey, romance novel tropes, and spicy bits sprinkled in.
In this book you'll find the following tropes:
- Found Family
- One Night Stand
- Miscommunication
- Forced Proximity/Stuck Together
- Secret Relationship/Forbidden Romance
Daddy Issues - From both main characters- Opposites Attract
- Work Colleagues
Honorable Mention Tropes (if that could be considered a thing?)
- Sports Romance - Hockey. Is the male lead a hockey player? Yes. Does it make a big impact on the story, as it does with Icebreaker? No.
- Social Inferiors/Different Worlds or
Rich v. Poor - kinda/sorta/not really.Aurora's dad owns a Formula 1 team, and Russ has a deadbeat dad with a gambling problem that asks to borrow money sometimes. Both have daddy issues and there is a thread of "we come from two different worlds" thing, but it's not a huge part of the story unless I am totally forgetting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cursing