Day 13 – 30 Day Reading Challenge – Icebreaker-Book Review

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA.

A competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win.

No exceptions.

This book had so much hype on Tiktok and Instagram and so I decided to get this book.

Here’s a warning–some books are worth the hype but most of the books are not worth the hype and Icebreaker was one such book.

I know this is going to be one of the unpopular book reviews as I have seen many raving reviews on this book but I didn’t find this book…that raving.

Meet Anastasia Allen who is an ice skater at a fictional university UCMH. She meets Nathan Hawkins, who is the hockey captain of UCMH. The two cannot stand each other but then eventually they form a relationship between.

Truthfully, I did have high expectations on this book. This is a debut book by Hannah Grace and I really thought there must be some thing that would have made this book so much hype. But I didn’t see any. This book really reminded me of Fifty Shades a little except there was no BDSM. I didn’t really like the character of Anastasia. Too many main characters in my opinion although the story was told by Nathan’s and Anatasia’s POVs mainly. This was a romance book and I felt like this book dragged on and on–this was more than 400 pages and I feel like romance books shouldn’t be more than 400 pages! I couldn’t really get into the story, and I was really bored with some parts. I nearly DNFed but then I don’t usually DNF the books so I had no choice but skim through the book because I really want to finish the book. It dragged on and on, felt like there were some repetitions as well. However, the good thing about the book is, the author can write well. Despite the fact that I didn’t enjoy the book, I want to try more of her books out in future. Worth 2.5 stars in my opinion.