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If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one. After 17 years - and countless broken bones and broken promises - she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close.
But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she's spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything. Including Ivan Lukov.
- Listening Length14 hours and 55 minutes
- Audible release dateMay 11, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
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Listening Length | 14 hours and 55 minutes |
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Author | Mariana Zapata |
Narrator | Callie Dalton, Teddy Hamilton |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | May 11, 2018 |
Publisher | Mariana Zapata |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07CZ4DX7Q |
Best Sellers Rank | #7,510 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #686 in Sports Romance (Books) |
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I love Jasmine's relationship with her mom and siblings so much too. Their convos are so awesome!! And her mom calls her Grumpy!!! I loved Jasmine's character from the moment I started reading. Maybe because we are so similar lol, but I immediately wanted to know more about her and what happened in the past that made her think and behave the way she does now. I also wanted to know everything about her relationship with Ivan as they were growing up. I loved Galina and her tough love and Coach Lee not having their silly arguments.
I love how sweet and understanding Ivan is with Jasmine when she needs him to be. I loved how she could confide in him and how he never judged her. Their private moments were everything❤️❤️❤️. And he went to get her when she felt bad after her mom's accident, and made her hot cocoa and took her to his room at the rink. And he hugged her and the things he told her were just perfect. And the way he took care of her when she got sick!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Chapter 17 was not what I was expecting at all. Jasmine's dad is just such an arse!!!! I was so mad. It felt like I was sitting there and I wanted to stab him in the eye with a fork. I felt so bad for Jasmine. I couldn't help but cry when she finally broke down in Ivan's arms. And he was just perfect!!!! He loves her so much even if he hasn't told her yet. I just can't help but smile and sigh every single time he hugs her and tells her how amazing she really is. He truly is perfect for her ❤️❤️❤️. I also loved how her brother came to her and hugged her and told her he loves her and how her mom and Ben are so supportive of her, too. I was so proud of Jasmine when she spoke to her dad at the LC!! He definitely needed to hear how she feels. I'm so mad that he can't support her like she deserves!!! Ugh!!! Luckily, Ivan was ready with a Hersheys kiss to make her day better❤️❤️❤️. I just LOVE how much he knows her, even better than she knows herself sometimes. He's always ready to get her out of her own head and be supportive and amazing while still being an arse😁❤️. And her family called him to get her out of her funk. They know he's the only one who can get through to her. And he's just as stubborn as she is and loves her so much!!! And then he kissed her and it was so unexpected and sweet❤️❤️❤️. And he got her a new bracelet and kept her old one for himself!!! Can this man be any more perfect?!?!?! And her dad came to see them compete!!! And Ivan mouthed "I Love You" to her right before they skated!!!❤️❤️❤️. And her dad had the best sign at their long program. And those last few chapters and the epilogue were just so awesome and perfect!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Ivan Lukov will forever be one of my favorite book boyfriends!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I loved this book soooo much I feel like I can't even put into words how happy this book made me feel. Right now I have the biggest grin on my face and my heart feels full, like when you finish the best love story and you just know that they're going to be happy together for the rest of their lives. It's how I feel about Jasmine and Ivan. Because if there were ever two people who were meant to be, it's those two.
I love that this was a enemies to friends to lovers romance but I loved even more was how they pretty much weren't enemies at all but it was all foreplay to what everyone could see but Jasmine. I won't even say Ivan because it feels clear to me that from the very beginning, Ivan has been interested in Jasmine and she was the only one clueless to his affections towards her. And that fact that he's been waiting around for her for freaking YEARS makes me love him so much but also makes their romance feel that much more soulmate worthy.
I loved pretty much everything about this book but I especially loved Jasmine. I love how perfectly imperfect she is. I love how she is so unapologetically herself and how many would call her an unlikable heroine and she wouldn't give a hoot about it. She is who she is and she never apologizes for it and I loved that about her sooo much. She has worked so freaking hard for her dream, it honestly hurt me that she she kept failing while everyone else around her was succeeding. But what is so great about Jasmine is that she NEVER gives up, not on herself and not on the things that really matter. This book was very much centered on Jasmine's journey as a ice skater and as a person; I would even go as far as saying it was about her journey first, and the romance second.
Though as a side note, that one sex scene we got was SO. FREAKING. HOT.
Like seriously, hot.
Their chemistry was off the charts and that one scene alone made me wish on all the stars in the sky that Mariana would have more sexy times in her books because hot DAMN.
So if I loved this book so freaking much, why only 4 stars? Well there were a few things that bothered me:
1. I felt like the writing at certain points was a bit awkward and confusing. For example, many times throughout the book she would say things like "the woman standing next to me said," or "my mom's fourth husband said" and it was just so...weird? We know their names, she literally said them one line before so why did she have to keep referring to them through this characterization quirk? (I don't even know if that is a thing or if it makes sense but I'm going with it for now). It became annoying after a while because I just wanted to shout, "JUST CALL THEM BY THEIR DAMN NAME ALREADY" and at one point in the beginning when she'd done it with their Coach Lee I was genuinely confused when she'd refer to her as "the other woman standing next to me" because I thought maybe I'd missed something and there was more than one coach in the room and I had to keep rereading the paragraph or page over.
2. I feel like I complain about this all the time but while I love how she's so amazing at the slow burn, I feel like she forget that she needs to actually show us them as a couple. Don't get me wrong, I felt their connection and could feel that they'd be perfect together as a couple and they'd last for the long haul but once more it took until 95% for them to actually get together and that didn't really leave much room to show us them together as a couple. And I don't know if it's just a me thing, but while I want the slow burn, I also want the satisfaction of seeing them date and be a couple too. I feel like it gets tricky in this book because technically even though they weren't together and Jasmine was acting oblivious to what was in front of her, they were pretty much acting like a couple for the last quarter-ish of the book. I knew that Ivan was in love with her well before he admitted it and I knew that she had feelings for him too even if she hadn't realized it yet, but I wanted to see them be together longer than half a chapter. I'm not trying to be harsh or mean but it's clear that the author has a formula that has worked very well for her in the past. Hell, her next five books could follow the same formula of: slow burn to the max and then last five precent showing them finally admit their feelings and I'd still buy every single one of them. But at the same time, it's going to get old. And just because something has worked for you before doesn't mean you shouldn't grow as a writer and try new things. I'm not saying she needs to stop doing what she's doing because I love her for it so much but I'm saying maybe tweak it or throw in a curveball or two to keep us readers on our toes every once in a while.
3. And my final complaint would be that I felt like the writing was drawn out. It's not that I didn't love it and I wasn't completely hooked from beginning to end, because I was. But when I was reading, she would take three pages to say one thing and I got the distinct feeling she was just being wordy to be wordy. For example, I didn't need 3-4 pages of inner dialogue about how she was sad that her mom was sad, especially when it felt like it was in a constant loop of the same thing being said four different ways. This kind of ties into my point two where you could've used those extra words/pages or whatever to show us them as a couple instead of feeling like you needed to draw things out for the simple fact that it's kind of what you're known for. Again I don't mean this in a catty or nasty way because I genuinely love this author and her writing so freaking much it's not even funny. But it was just the impression I got a few times while reading.
But besides those three things, I absolutely loved this book and felt like I went through the best freaking journey with these characters. Mariana Zapata is easily one of my favorite authors and I love that I can count on her to make me fall so in love with her books, no matter what. I also want to point out that I love her immensely for always having diversity in her books; she is one of the few romance authors that I can say that has multiple books with WOC heroines and I love that she consistently gives it to us. Not only that but she gives diversity in so many other aspects to, like in the topics covered in her books. Her characters are not one dimensional and they very much feel like real people, people who I could know and be friends with. Overall, if you are a fan of this author's previous books you will 100% love this book so hardcore. And if you haven't read anything by her yet you need to jump on the Zapata train and pick up this book asap.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2018
I loved this book soooo much I feel like I can't even put into words how happy this book made me feel. Right now I have the biggest grin on my face and my heart feels full, like when you finish the best love story and you just know that they're going to be happy together for the rest of their lives. It's how I feel about Jasmine and Ivan. Because if there were ever two people who were meant to be, it's those two.
I love that this was a enemies to friends to lovers romance but I loved even more was how they pretty much weren't enemies at all but it was all foreplay to what everyone could see but Jasmine. I won't even say Ivan because it feels clear to me that from the very beginning, Ivan has been interested in Jasmine and she was the only one clueless to his affections towards her. And that fact that he's been waiting around for her for freaking YEARS makes me love him so much but also makes their romance feel that much more soulmate worthy.
I loved pretty much everything about this book but I especially loved Jasmine. I love how perfectly imperfect she is. I love how she is so unapologetically herself and how many would call her an unlikable heroine and she wouldn't give a hoot about it. She is who she is and she never apologizes for it and I loved that about her sooo much. She has worked so freaking hard for her dream, it honestly hurt me that she she kept failing while everyone else around her was succeeding. But what is so great about Jasmine is that she NEVER gives up, not on herself and not on the things that really matter. This book was very much centered on Jasmine's journey as a ice skater and as a person; I would even go as far as saying it was about her journey first, and the romance second.
Though as a side note, that one sex scene we got was SO. FREAKING. HOT.
Like seriously, hot.
Their chemistry was off the charts and that one scene alone made me wish on all the stars in the sky that Mariana would have more sexy times in her books because hot DAMN.
So if I loved this book so freaking much, why only 4 stars? Well there were a few things that bothered me:
1. I felt like the writing at certain points was a bit awkward and confusing. For example, many times throughout the book she would say things like "the woman standing next to me said," or "my mom's fourth husband said" and it was just so...weird? We know their names, she literally said them one line before so why did she have to keep referring to them through this characterization quirk? (I don't even know if that is a thing or if it makes sense but I'm going with it for now). It became annoying after a while because I just wanted to shout, "JUST CALL THEM BY THEIR DAMN NAME ALREADY" and at one point in the beginning when she'd done it with their Coach Lee I was genuinely confused when she'd refer to her as "the other woman standing next to me" because I thought maybe I'd missed something and there was more than one coach in the room and I had to keep rereading the paragraph or page over.
2. I feel like I complain about this all the time but while I love how she's so amazing at the slow burn, I feel like she forget that she needs to actually show us them as a couple. Don't get me wrong, I felt their connection and could feel that they'd be perfect together as a couple and they'd last for the long haul but once more it took until 95% for them to actually get together and that didn't really leave much room to show us them together as a couple. And I don't know if it's just a me thing, but while I want the slow burn, I also want the satisfaction of seeing them date and be a couple too. I feel like it gets tricky in this book because technically even though they weren't together and Jasmine was acting oblivious to what was in front of her, they were pretty much acting like a couple for the last quarter-ish of the book. I knew that Ivan was in love with her well before he admitted it and I knew that she had feelings for him too even if she hadn't realized it yet, but I wanted to see them be together longer than half a chapter. I'm not trying to be harsh or mean but it's clear that the author has a formula that has worked very well for her in the past. Hell, her next five books could follow the same formula of: slow burn to the max and then last five precent showing them finally admit their feelings and I'd still buy every single one of them. But at the same time, it's going to get old. And just because something has worked for you before doesn't mean you shouldn't grow as a writer and try new things. I'm not saying she needs to stop doing what she's doing because I love her for it so much but I'm saying maybe tweak it or throw in a curveball or two to keep us readers on our toes every once in a while.
3. And my final complaint would be that I felt like the writing was drawn out. It's not that I didn't love it and I wasn't completely hooked from beginning to end, because I was. But when I was reading, she would take three pages to say one thing and I got the distinct feeling she was just being wordy to be wordy. For example, I didn't need 3-4 pages of inner dialogue about how she was sad that her mom was sad, especially when it felt like it was in a constant loop of the same thing being said four different ways. This kind of ties into my point two where you could've used those extra words/pages or whatever to show us them as a couple instead of feeling like you needed to draw things out for the simple fact that it's kind of what you're known for. Again I don't mean this in a catty or nasty way because I genuinely love this author and her writing so freaking much it's not even funny. But it was just the impression I got a few times while reading.
But besides those three things, I absolutely loved this book and felt like I went through the best freaking journey with these characters. Mariana Zapata is easily one of my favorite authors and I love that I can count on her to make me fall so in love with her books, no matter what. I also want to point out that I love her immensely for always having diversity in her books; she is one of the few romance authors that I can say that has multiple books with WOC heroines and I love that she consistently gives it to us. Not only that but she gives diversity in so many other aspects to, like in the topics covered in her books. Her characters are not one dimensional and they very much feel like real people, people who I could know and be friends with. Overall, if you are a fan of this author's previous books you will 100% love this book so hardcore. And if you haven't read anything by her yet you need to jump on the Zapata train and pick up this book asap.

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A story of true passionate love even when you don't think you love the person closest to you, you do
This is the story of two young ice skaters who need to partner up for a champion even though they think they hate each other.
Their relationship is strained yet both want to enter the title so badly they put their differences behind them.
Their dedication and passion for a dream they believe in, sweeps you away.
You want them to succeed you want them to fall in love.
Zapata writes a funny and romantic book with beautiful character development and very likeable characters.
Kerry Kennedy Author

I enjoyed Jas and Ivan's move from enemies to friendship and seeing the world of skating through their eyes. Even though each are already grown ups when the book starts, this is in many ways also a coming of age story where Jas faces old scars and allows herself to be vulnerable with her new partner and finally free herself to reach her potential on the ice.
As much as I enjoyed the friendship, I wish that more time had been given to the romance element of the book. Ultimately, the burn was so slow that I honestly thought I'd misunderstood and that it wasn't going to be a romance in the end but enemies to besties. It just felt like the romance was tacked on at the end as nothing really happened until 87% of the way in, and even then nothing really kicks off until 92% in. So we don't really get to spend time with them as a couple until the epilogue.
*spoilers ahead* Even in a scene where Ivan kisses Jas, she completely brushes it off as friends and doesn't really kiss him back or mention it again. She does decide she's in love with him and it seems to come out of nowhere. She's so far in her head or potentially oblivious that it's hard to get any sense of romantic tension or flow. I wish we had more than the epilogue to hear about their successes and love for each other, but I'm glad I got that.

But the second half of the book. Once Jasmine gets the flu- is worth every thing. I adored the second half of this book.
This author is known for her slow burn books. This one was a bit too slow at the start for me, hence the drop in a star.
