Review: Frigid by J. Lynn (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Frigid

Author: J. Lynn / JLA

Series: Frigid

Pages: 240

Genre: New Adult - Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Spencer Hill Press

Amazon – TBD

Synopsis. (Goodreads)

For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. 

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. 

But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor'easter, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.

Review: 3 ½ out of 5 stars

I am a huge J. Lynn / Jennifer L. Armentrout fan and I literally stopped everything I was doing to read Frigid when my pre-ordered copy appeared on my kindle.

I adore the friends to lovers’ trope and Kyler Quinn and Sydney Bell have been best of friends and inseparable since childhood. Sydney’s feelings though go beyond what they share but she knows that Kyler is a love-em and leave-em kind of guy so she has never acted on it to avoid ruining their friendship.

When they end up stranded on a ski resort because of a snow storm, it’s where their friendship is tested, emotions are high and they act on their feelings but not without misunderstandings, drama and a bit of mystery thrown in with someone trying to cause a bit of grief and destruction.

Sydney was a likeable and relatable heroine but how she put up with Kyler’s string of one night stands whilst being in love with him was beyond me. Kyler was possessive and protective towards Sydney which at times was a little cave man but I came to like him and his smexy cockiness as the book progressed, he just wasn’t one of my favourite JLA characters unfortunately.

The writing is wonderful and I really enjoyed the dual points of view and although the story is predictable it was entertaining and fun none-the-less. To me it definitely read more like an adult romance rather than new adult though.

Overall, Frigid was a quick and easy read filled with a lot of elements I tend to appreciate in a contemporary romance – mild drama, believable emotions, and smexy moments. It is a nice friend to lovers’ story which I enjoyed but wasn’t completely wowed by, I’m still excited to read the next book in the Frigid series.

 

About the author (from Goodreads): # 1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout Lives in West Virginia. 

All the rumors you heard about her state aren’t true. 

Well, mostly. When she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don't Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen. 

Jennifer also writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J. Lynn. The Gamble Brothers Series (Tempting the Best Man/Tempting the Player) and Wait for You. Under her pen name, she is published with Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.