Breaking the Ice
Author:
Julie Cross
Series:
Juniper Falls
Pages:
300
Publisher:
Entangled Teen
Release
date: 26th December 2017
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Synopsis:
Haley Stevenson seems like she's got
it all together: cheer captain, "Princess" of Juniper Falls, and
voted Most Likely to Get Things Done. But below the surface, she's struggling
with a less-than-stellar GPA and still reeling from the loss of her first love.
Repeating her Civics class during summer school is her chance to Get Things
Done, not angst over boys. In fact, she's sworn them off completely until
college.
Fletcher Scott is happy to keep a low
profile around Juniper Falls. He's always been the invisible guy, warming the
bench on the hockey team and moonlighting at a job that would make his grandma
blush. Suddenly, though, he's finding he wants more: more time on the ice, and
more time with his infuriatingly perfect summer-school study partner.
But leave it to a girl who requires
perfection to shake up a boy who's ready to break all the rules.
Each book in the Juniper Falls series
is STANDALONE:
* Off the Ice
* Breaking the Ice
* Off the Ice
* Breaking the Ice
Review: 3 1/2 out of 5
stars
Breaking the Ice is a
light-hearted read by Julie Cross and is a part of the Juniper Falls series.
Our MC’s are Haley
Stevenson and Fletcher Scott, both great characters but they couldn’t be any
more different.
Haley is the Princess
of Juniper Falls and is involved in everything, she is a sweetheart but also
quite a sticky beak. Fletcher has quite a few secrets, he’s reserved, nerdy and
doesn’t like anyone to know his business; they complimented each other well but
their interactions at times did drive me completely crazy!
The plot is quite
predictable; Haley is struggling academically so she takes her civics class
during summer school, this is where she learns more about Fletcher and inserts
herself into his life to improve her GPA. Fletcher loves hockey and yearns for
less bench time and more time on the ice but with his health issues it hasn’t
been a possibility. This book was entertaining and was without all the
unnecessary YA angst.
The romance was done well but there was a lot of push and pull and no clearly defined relationship between them but Haley knew upfront that Fletcher wasn't a committed sort of guy; they complimented each other well and communicated in a way which didn't leave room for miscommunication which I liked but I would have liked a few more mushy, romantic scenes between them, I felt like the ending was very rushed for them.
All of the side
characters were wonderful! I do hope we see more of them in the next books,
especially Jamie.
Julie Cross’s writing
is great and there quite a few laugh out loud moments but I did also find that
there were parts of the book where I found myself skimming. Breaking the Ice is
also the second book in the series but it can most definitely be read as a
stand-alone, I never at all felt lost.
Thank you to Entangled
Teen via Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review Breaking the Ice.
About the author: Julie
Cross is a NYT and USA Today bestselling author of New Adult and Young Adult
fiction, including the Tempest series, a young adult science fiction trilogy
which includes Tempest, Vortex, Timestorm (St. Martin's Press). She's also the
author of Letters to Nowhere series, Whatever Life Throws at You, Third Degree,
Halfway Perfect, and many more to come!
Julie lives in Central Illinois with her husband and three children. She's a former gymnast, longtime gymnastics fan, coach and former Gymnastics Program Director with the YMCA. Shes a lover of books, devouring several novels a week, especially in the young adult and new adult genres.
Outside of her reading and writing credibility's, Julie Cross is a committed--but not talented--long distance runner, creator of imaginary beach vacations, Midwest bipolar weather survivor, expired CPR certification card holder, as well as a ponytail and gym shoe addict.
