You can tell she is SO passionate about figure skating and about her family and all of the sacrifices that she has made/ they have made for her throughout the years. She is so tough and BA and her inner monologues seemed to be pretty similar to my own sometimes (I’m a bit of a potty mouth so if you don’t like strong language, parts of this book might not be fun).
I’ll start with Jasmine since this book is about her. What I did not expect was to fall so deep in love with these characters and their story that I would be fully immersed for a solid two days. This was my first book written by Zapata so I really didn’t know what to expect going in other than seeing that it had a good rating already. Was I dying? Was this what having you heart broken felt like? Because if it was, I was sure fucking glad I’d never fallen in love before because goddamn. It turns out that this tool of a guy (lol he’s really not tho) and his trainer want Jasmine to be the new half of his pair’s team and she’s just desperate enough for a win to agree. Long-time enemy of Jasmine, total babe, world-champion pairs skater, and brother of Jasmine’s only friend (other than her family). Her partner of three years ditched her without saying anything and because of her smartass/hardass mouth, she’s inherited the stigma of being hard to work with. When we first start the book she’s in a bit of a slump. Jasmine is a figure skater with hardcore determination. I feel like this entire review is just going to be word vomit and fangirling and I am entirely alright with that so without further ado, I’ll dive right in. For this sport that had given me the confidence to know I could get up after every fall I’d ever take. For this love that was greater than just about everything and anything I had ever known. I’d bled for it, cried for it, bruised for it, had broken bones, had concussions, pulled just about every muscle in my body, never made friends, never went to a single school anything, never loved anyone, ignored my family, all for this. If you don’t end up wanting to read this book solely based on the quotes themselves….then you must not have a heart, lol. I feel like I should apologize in advance for the number of lengthy quotes that will be in this review but if we’re being honest, I had WAY more highlighted and these were the ones I felt like I couldn’t live without.
*incoherent mumbling* INSTANT TOP FIVE FAVORITE ROMANCE OF ALL TIME YOU GUYS, NO JOKE.
You are who you are in life, and you either live that time trying to bend yourself to make other people happy, or… you don’t. Maybe life would have been a lot easier if I’d had my sister’s sweetness or my mom’s personality, but I didn’t and I never would. My mom had always warned me that some people would always be eager to believe the worst.
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