addie! semi ia 's Reviews > Collide

⁀➷ ★.5
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This was icebreaker 2.0….

So basically my worst nightmare!

*ೃ༄ God how do I say this nicely. This book was…. boring. Like really really fucking dull. Dry as fucking dust. Like I would much rather watch slow drying paint dry, type boring. The plot is basically the same as every other cookie cutter hockey romance, but with even more monotonous, toneless, flat characters it would put post season 3 Riverdale to shame. But hey, as wacky as is, at least shit happened in Riverdale.
And don’t even get me started on the writing 😧- OH MY GOD! There’s something about it that was soo jarring it was driving me insaneee, like I was THIS CLOSE to shoving a needle in my eye!

*ೃ༄ Ms Summer Preston was a big pessimistic, overly ambitious, hateful, spiteful bitch. (Relatable bc those are my only personality traits too🤧) Now these qualities makes me love, adore and root for female characters and I would’ve liked her somewhat if she wasn’t so fucking immature! This girl was breaking up friendships bc what? They played fucking hockey? Grow up omg! And the whole reason is bc her dad was a hockey player and she doesn’t like him? Girl whatever 🙄, I like petty but this is stupidity.

The author could’ve made her angry, and angsty and complex by showing how her daddy issues affected her and how it impacted others around her but no. She just had to be boring, annoying, and lowkey hypocritical.

*ೃ༄ Aiden Crawford? He has the same energy as unseasoned, white chicken. Mashed potatoes with no pepper. Smooth unsalted butter. Boiled carrots. PLAIN, FLAVOURLESS AND BORING! LIKE Go girl! Give us nothing! Now I def think that we need more nice, mature golden retriever characters in literature- but not like this. Also the author at the start tried so hard to make him into some sort of ‘player’ at the start, didn’t work. (Also he lowkey looks like a mix of Dream and young gravy in my head which I don’t think helps my opinion)

*ೃ༄ Did not give a fuck about the background characters. In fact if you held me at 🔪 point and asked me to name them, tell my family goodbye.

*ೃ༄ Now you might all be thinking, “Gosh Addie, you’re such a bitch this wasn’t that bad, why are you so extreme?” You’re right I’m sorry, because I actually don’t have that strong of a dislike for this drab book like I have for others like icebreaker. Apart from the weird writing style and a bit of a pacing issue, this book has no other valid criticisms except that I just didn’t like it. I think it was so dull and forgettable and wasted my time (yes ik it’s my own fault for the last one 🙄). In fact I can literally just feel everything I read in the last 3 hrs just wipe away and soon it’ll no longer be attached to my last 5 braincells.

*ೃ༄ Do I think they’ll end up together? Noo sorry. I give them a year at most before they get into a major argument, probably initiated by Summer and held in a car park, and Aiden screams that they should break up and Summer screams FINE and storms off to her car leaving him stranded. They never really speak again after that. Aiden’s next girlfriend is either a blonde girl with curly hair that’s in law school, wears those flower claw clips and likes to travel or a dark skin woc with long straight brown hair, who’s a rich city girl with daddy’s money, is in STEM and a pink Pilates princess. Idk who Summer ends up with but she def ends up in a suburban 4 bedroom house and when her kids point at Aiden in old photos asking who’s that she’ll reply “oh that’s just my college bf, he was a cutie.”

✦ Google synonyms for ‘uninteresting’ and ‘forgettable’.