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well, it's quite affected so far... like the love interest speaks (and a couple of the others too) as if they're from another time period or planet or something? Also I hadn't realized this was YA when I added it to my tbr, I thought college age

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Unsure how I feel about this so far 🤔🤔

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Rhys Koteskiy is back — at least, he's supposed to be. During last year’s Frozen Four, the Waterfell University hockey captain, and NHL legacy, took a brutal hit that left him with a concussion and a new discomfort on the ice. Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks every time he attempt to skate, Rhys wonders if he’ll ever play again — if he’ll ever want to. Sadie Brown is staying focused this semester — no matter what. Currently drowning in debt, custody hearings for her younger brothers and skating practices, she's just trying to make it to the next day. A spitfire figure skater known for her bad attitude and frequent disappearing acts, she has a reputation on campus. And it’s not a pretty one. When she accidentally witnesses one of the golden boy hockey captain’s panic attacks and attempts to help him, a strange sort of understanding strikes up between them. No questions asked. Just comfort. But Rhys finds himself drawn to Sadie. Where he feels empty, a shell of the man and player he was before, Sadie is so full of everything it bursts from her; every emotion she feels seems like it’s blasted at max. Rhys is desperate to feel anything, Sadie wants to stop feeling so much. But healing doesn’t mix with secrets, and they’re both skating a thin line, unsteady .

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Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.

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The Rest of the Story

Tal Bauer

Let me earn it. I keep things simple. I’m a classic one-night wonder. Relationships? Are you out of your mind? No. No way. Not interested. My heart is vulcanized rubber, puck hard, and that’s the way I like it. Then I'm traded to the absolute worst team in the NHL, the Rocky Mountain Outlaws, and I’m hit with a one-two punch. First: I’m asked to step up and lead the team, which is every kind of bad idea you can imagine. I'm a head-down, mind-my-business kind of guy. Mr. Uninvolved, Mr. No, Not Me, Mr. Find Someone Else. But these players have been through a mess of hell, and someone thinks I can help pull them together. The Outlaws are made up of jaded veterans and wide-eyed rookies, and we have no business whatsoever succeeding. We are scrappy and plucky and built out of spit and duct-tape… and whatever we’re doing, it’s working. Second: The first day I’m in Boulder, I go over the boards and come face-to-face with a pair of blue eyes and lose my heart. Boy, howdy: meet my new co-captain, Shea Darling. He’s way, way off-limits. It's a stratospherically terrible idea to want or crave him. This crush, this infatuation, is going nowhere fast. Yeah, right. I’m gone for Shea. I’m head over heels, and I’m all tangled up in something I can’t understand or control. This isn’t me. I don’t fall in love. And there’s nothing simple about Shea, or about the Outlaws. This team is finally putting up the wins, and we are making something of ourselves. Falling for my co-captain while we’re on a Cinderella run could jeopardize everything we’re striving for. But then there’s this one night. And this one kiss. And everything changes. Eighty-two games in a season. Twenty men hungry for redemption. One co-captain who could be my forever. This is the rest of the story. ***** The Rest of the Story is a friends-to-lovers, hockey players/teammates MM romance, and includes themes of survivorship. The Rest of the Story is set in the same universe as Gravity, but each novel can be read independently. You do not need to read Gravity first to enjoy The Rest of the Story.

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Thoughts from 100% wow, different strokes for different folks

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Thoughts after finishing 'Small Boat'

Overall, a challenging read on a nuanced issue, I couldn't help thinking what would I do in their shoes? Would I be so jaded and apathetic or would I help? I'm honestly not sure; at the end of the day it's easy to pass judgement in hindsight and when you're so far removed from it all, but when you're in that situation yourself, who knows what you would actually do.

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librosrosas completed their yearly reading goal of 50 books!

librosrosas's 2026 Reading Challenge

51 of 50 read

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1)

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Thoughts from 51% (🔥 but also 🙄)

There's definitely been no lack of steam in this book, as expected from Lily Gold. I like the set up here, following a celebrity main female character who needs to hire security because she's both famous and has a creepy stalker. Two main points that annoy me:

I feel like Briar actually is pretty annoying; her persona is this diva/bitchy spoiled celebrity but underneath she's actually so sweet-- except I don't think she's all that sweet? I think there are hidden depths, and that she's very moral and not mean to be mean, but I think she is entitled and bossy and demanding and sometimes kinda bitchy. And sometimes that grates. Plus, she uses 0000% sense with regards to her stalker, it was so obviously the wrong thing to do/say and that was so striking as to almost be a plot hole.
There have been zero concerns nor discussions about everyone sleeping together. Yes, the guys have a history of sharing, but other than brief mention of condoms there's nothing. No discussions of ethics re: she's their client and the protectee, no comments on if this ~compromises their focus, nothing about any future or plans or emotions? AKA, the romance just feels very thrown together, and I'm not feeling similar vital components as some of Gold's others, where the characters each have baggage that is then addressed over the course of the relationship/book.

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bloombekah set their yearly reading goal to 30