A review by filmingpages
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

1.0

Unfortunately this one has the cutest cover and this is what lured me in, but other than that I didn't really enjoy it.

I feel my biggest issue with it was the writing. 400+ pages but I could narrow down the significant events to 250+ pages. The dual POV didn't really help cause most of the times we ended up rereading events. Adding to that, we got scenes that were identical with th biggest example being the Christmas holidays, where we got the exact same restaurant/ex scene for both Anastasia and Nate with minimal changes.

There was a big cast of characters that didn't really make sense.

It had an awfully cheesy, perfectly wrapped up ending which was slightly unrealistic and I could see it coming for miles. Because everyone reading this is a multimillionaire that ends up getting married two years out of college, have a baby and live in a beach mansion.

Again, I will return to the writing, cause a lot of scenes read like fanfiction.

Did we have any clue that Aaron was into Anastasia before nationals? No. Did the fact that Anastasia fell into a frozen lake have any impact apart from the fact that it made them say "I love you"? No. Did we ever see two athletes that apparently won a gold medal and a Stanley cup ever actually train? No. Did we ever understand why everyone was so enamored with Anastasia the moment they met her? No.

 
Did it try to tackle a miriad of topics like anxiety, an ED, toxic relationships, hook up culture, etc and somehow kept it surface level? Yes. Did it glorify unprotected sex? Yes.

All in all, I know what this book tried to do, cause I've seen the same scenes in other romance books time and time before. Unfortunately, it wasn't my cup of tea.