I would have liked to see more of a slowburn tension. I wasn’t sold on the romance at first because the “enemies” part of the relationship felt pretty petty. I’m so happy to see that more college YA is being published! I also really enjoyed the college setting and general dynamics of the hockey team. I didn’t know how I felt about this book for the first ~20%, but then ultimately ended up enjoying it! I loved the complex family dynamics and our main character Mickey’s relationship with his five older sisters. ICEBREAKERS is a college hockey YA novel with a bisexual MC, an inclusive queer cast, an enemies-to-lovers m/m romance, and standout depression representation. Despite my various roadblocks, I still managed to enjoy myself so props for that! That says something about the story and the author! that is all me, probably everyone else who reads this will be fine. I will say I'm not even for a second going to pretend that my lack of sports knowledge was the author's fault. This was new for me though so it was harder to gauge. Great for fans of the Gravity Between Us and probably sports fiction in general. If you love hockey and or/understand things like drafts in any sport or even have any base knowledge about the sport, you will probably be fine. I'm just an outlier and probably shouldn't be counted. Heck if you aren't listening on the NG Shelf app and have more control, you'll probably be all good. If you are not a picky audiophile, you will probably be more than fine. Tom Picasso had a good youthful voice for it but my personal taste just had trouble sometimes with his pace. It always felt too fast or slow and made it difficult for me. The narrarator did a good job, I just felt limited by the NG Shelf app playback options because I just couldn't get the playback speed to the sweet spot I needed to vibe with it properly. I did eventually enjoy it, it just took me a bit. I'm not always that big on rivqals to lovers so it took me awhile to get the feel for the book and enjoy it. Yes, I am the weirdo who requested this book be cause I'm feeling the Winter Olympics big time and I always love a good queer ya story. I spent a lot of the beginning trying to focus on the characters but some of the finer points of the plot were dense to me because i had to keep googling acronymns and draft mechanics so i could understand what the big flare up of the drama of the plot was about. So I'm not a hockey fan or a sports fan at all, full disclosure so all of the drama about the draft and some of the jargon had me so confused. I have been having a tricky time getting my brain to cooperate with ebooks but getting to listen to the book was so much easier for my neurodivergent brain. Getting an audiobook galley for this book or any book really is clutch.
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