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artist12383's review
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-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? It's complicated
4.25
krlittle07's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
cover_2_covered's review against another edition
4.0
Hello Grace, self labels herself as a fluffy comfort book author who writes contemporary romance novels. I need all honesty that is super accurate.
I loved every second of this book Anastasia‘s character development how she stands up for what she believes is right and how she much like every other human is somewhat struggling with her life, but puts on a good face as to not worry the people around her. She’s ambitious. She’s smart and she knows what she wants with her life. She’s very religious about planning having planned out her entire life which makes this even more interesting because it I can totally relate to the character on that aspect. She sees her goals, she works towards it and she knows what her expectations are for herself.
Enter Nathaniel Hawkins. In the book Anastasia says that Nate is a man written by a woman, and just word. Nate is kind, he is super sweet and he’s very thoughtful to Anastasia and is very supportive to her. However, he is his independent character as well. His character is not defined by Anastasia alone but is defined by his friendships, his love for hockey and his moral compass.
We also have characters that we fall in love with in this book. For me, it was Lola, JJ, Robbie and Henry and right off the bat I knew I will hate Aaron for the foreseeable future of this book.
This is actually a very cute romance book, but I felt it was a bit too much in terms of the smut included in this book which is why I have given it four stars instead of five.
I loved every second of this book Anastasia‘s character development how she stands up for what she believes is right and how she much like every other human is somewhat struggling with her life, but puts on a good face as to not worry the people around her. She’s ambitious. She’s smart and she knows what she wants with her life. She’s very religious about planning having planned out her entire life which makes this even more interesting because it I can totally relate to the character on that aspect. She sees her goals, she works towards it and she knows what her expectations are for herself.
Enter Nathaniel Hawkins. In the book Anastasia says that Nate is a man written by a woman, and just word. Nate is kind, he is super sweet and he’s very thoughtful to Anastasia and is very supportive to her. However, he is his independent character as well. His character is not defined by Anastasia alone but is defined by his friendships, his love for hockey and his moral compass.
We also have characters that we fall in love with in this book. For me, it was Lola, JJ, Robbie and Henry and right off the bat I knew I will hate Aaron for the foreseeable future of this book.
This is actually a very cute romance book, but I felt it was a bit too much in terms of the smut included in this book which is why I have given it four stars instead of five.
uraveragereader'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
4.0
jules098's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
fast-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? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Violence, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Cancer
fr_hhn's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
3.5
fromthelibrary's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
The writing and the plot is so so cheesy
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Eating disorder
leoniecst's review against another edition
4.0
Entertaining book.
I love Nate but Anastasia is kind of annoyingly naive and a bit toxic. She did have character development but it only really shined through at the last like 50 pages.
Aaron is a narcissist, Henry is weirdly obsessed with her (not that I hated it it just didn’t make sense to me for him to be so traumatized about stuff happening to her), Lola is great but one dimensional, the rest of the hockey team is quite insignificant. Coach is not really coaching.
I had to skip over some of the sex scenes because they were excessive. Don’t get me wrong I like a little smut but that was A LOT.
Nate was the definition of „written by a woman“. Even tho it was kinda instalovie on his part….he just had me giggling and kicking my feet.
I thought the whole like 60-80 pages about his family were not necessary…at least to this extend. His whole family played a pretty insignificant role in my opinion. Could’ve skipped some pages there…
Overall it was a good book. I had fun reading it even tho some things were a little dramatic or didn’t make sense. It’s just a fun read. Will definitely read wildfire too!
Overall it’s 4⭐️ because I had a really good time reading it
(Also I appreciate that there was no third act breakup, I was really scared about that)
I love Nate but Anastasia is kind of annoyingly naive and a bit toxic. She did have character development but it only really shined through at the last like 50 pages.
Aaron is a narcissist, Henry is weirdly obsessed with her (not that I hated it it just didn’t make sense to me for him to be so traumatized about stuff happening to her), Lola is great but one dimensional, the rest of the hockey team is quite insignificant. Coach is not really coaching.
I had to skip over some of the sex scenes because they were excessive. Don’t get me wrong I like a little smut but that was A LOT.
Nate was the definition of „written by a woman“. Even tho it was kinda instalovie on his part….he just had me giggling and kicking my feet.
I thought the whole like 60-80 pages about his family were not necessary…at least to this extend. His whole family played a pretty insignificant role in my opinion. Could’ve skipped some pages there…
Overall it was a good book. I had fun reading it even tho some things were a little dramatic or didn’t make sense. It’s just a fun read. Will definitely read wildfire too!
Overall it’s 4⭐️ because I had a really good time reading it
(Also I appreciate that there was no third act breakup, I was really scared about that)
lezamap's review against another edition
funny
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
3.25