Recommended Read, Review

Review: Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (2022)

Heat Factor: These teenage college first years get up to stuff, but the door is firmly closed.

Character Chemistry: Layered and complex, with a mutual forbidden desire and a rivalry for the top spot in the NHL draft

Plot: Mickey’s difficulty acknowledging his mental health struggles makes all of the burdens of his own and others’ expectations for him much, much heavier.

Overall: This book made me cry.

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Recommended Read, Series Review

Series Review: Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu (2018-2020)

Heat Factor: Kisses! 

Character Chemistry: It’s not like they’re without their problems, but this is a really lovely relationship

Plot: Bitty goes to college and learns how to be himself. And he falls in love with the NHL-bound hockey captain. 

Overall: I read everything within 24 hours. Absolutely delightful.

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Review: The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu (2021)

Heat Factor: There’s a closed door scene that I’m not totally sure added anything

Character Chemistry: If not getting along most of the time is your love language then yes, there’s chemistry

Plot: Jasmine is in her early 20s and her life’s a mess

Overall: Women’s fiction marketed as romance strikes again!

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Review: Knit, Purl, a Baby, and a Girl by Hettie Bell (2021)

Heat Factor: There’s one fairly explicit scene around the midpoint

Character Chemistry: They really like each other, but…it’s complicated

Plot: Poppy accidentally gets pregnant, decides to keep the baby, falls in love, and finds herself

Overall: Cute

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Review: My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma (2018)

Heat Factor: Kisses only

Character Chemistry: It is obviously destiny because they like the same kind of ice cream.

Plot: Winnie thought her ex was her destiny, but now she doesn’t. Shenanigans ensue. 

Overall: I was having a blast until supposedly responsible adults told this high schooler to put her college plans in jeopardy for a boy.

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