TW: Eating disorder/Disordered eating. Seriously. If you are sensitive of this, do no read this book.

This book was stupid on every level possible. Stupid, shallow, uninformed, and absurd.

I am quite literally never trusting Booktok on anything ever again.

You can tell that this author desperately wanted her brownie points for being ~inclusive~ and ~woke~, then proceeded to do so in the absolutely most patronizing, ridiculous way possible. It was absolutely laughable how performative and shallow it all was. I mean, wanting to be ~woke~ and then making your big plot point/inciting incident/recurring conflict be disordered eating is just too funny.

Stassie is the villain of this story. There are too many damn characters. You're telling me there's now such a thing as a first-act breakup? The college athletics aspect was absolutely laughable. This is NOT a hockey romance — there are simply a few characters that play hockey. Respectfully, the instant-love trope doesn't work with college kids. This reads like a Wattpad fanfic that the author just didn't want to stop writing, so they added a bunch of extra chapters/drama for no reason. Why were the Christmas chapters (totally skippable, FYI) a bigger portion of the story than actual plot points? Why were none of these COLLEGE ATHLETES training during this time?! 

I'm begging people who write college athlete books to actually know how college athletics work. Or at least have some clue of how a hockey season runs and how hockey works (like... they play two-game series, and scoring 8 gals in a game regularly is... not normal?). And two years after college, she wins a gold medal, and he has a Stanley Cup??? WHAT!?!?!?!

That’s all I can say at this time because I refuse to go further into a rant about this horrible excuse for a book. 

If you value good writing and a romance that actually makes sense, don't waste your time.