ICEBREAKER

(book rewiew)

Icebreaker, book written by Hannah Grace is a romantic novel that evolves around two college students attending a Maple Hills University. The book talks about the story of Anastasia and Nathan, going from Haters to Lovers and overcoming their fears and problems together. The book contains a lot of drama and a lot of plot twists that keep the book exciting and entertaining. Unfortunately for no the book is only available in English. 

Story:

Anastasia Allen, a competitive figure skater that is chasing her childhood dream to become a professional skater and represent the Team USA. When she feels like her dream may become true, she is forced to share the ice rink due to some problems with the ice generator of the Hockey team's rink. The dissatisfaction is both sided, yet Nate feels some sort of responsibility and need to apologize to Anastasia for interrupting their training schedule and to talk out her hatred that she feels towards the Hockey team.

On a party that is happening few days later, he apologizes to her and tries to clear things up, but somehow things escalate between them romantically and now there is this weird tension when they meet each other at the practices.

During that party, Lola, Anastasia's roommate and her very close friend has made companions with Robbie, also a member of the hockey club but only as a support because of his wheelchair. Lola and Anastasia are invited to a party occurring in local bar, to celebrate the first game that they won. The extreme tension that is still there between the main protagonists turns into another romantic scene on their way back in the Uber, not helping with the awkwardness that settles inbetween them when they are not intoxicated with alcohol.

Because of talking things out, in a few weeks they turn into some kind of friends with benefit, and because of spending more time together, they are starting to get trust and get to know each other deeper.

However, it all falls apart when Aaron, Anastasia's skating partner, claims that Nate has done very serious injuries to him. Due to Aaron's wounds, he is unable to skate and is put to rest to recover quickly for their upcoming competition. Because of the hockey team's coach Faulkner not being able to find anyone who'd confess that they hurt Aaron, he has to stop all of the team activities and tournaments until Aaron is fully recovered and able to skate again. So Nathan, the responsible captain he is, is forced to lie about injuring Aaron, so the team could continue playing under the sacrifice that now HE, is the only one who cannot play until Aaron's recovery…

I'm not going to reveal the rest of the story of this heartwarming book, so you all can read it on your own and still enjoy the numerous amount of unexpected turns in the story.

Anna Michalczyková, 9. B