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Such a great book! I really enjoyed it and am sad that it did take me a lot longer to finish! I love the entire hockey group and cannot wait to see who's story will be next!

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Wildfire was so easy to read, laugh out loud funny, and the cosy summer read I had hoped it would be. Do yourself a favour, buy the book, pour yourself a glass of wine and curl up on the couch and ignore the world for a few hours. I think I am officially now one of those people who will come back again and again for anything Hannah Grace writes.

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This book was like a warm hug. I have no idea how Hannah Grace managed to create one of my favorite found families ever in such a small amount of time but she did and I loved every second of it. Russ is such a sweet, shy, cinnamon roll of a man and I adored him and Aurora is such a fun, chaotic mass of energy and I loved her so much. The miscommunication didn't even take me out of the story and I loved the way they communicated going forward.

Thank you #netgalley for a copy in exchange for my honest reivew

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This was one of those books that I found myself wanting to put down more often than I wanted to pick it up. A large part of this is my fault because I don't love the camp setting, but I did enjoy the first book of this series and wanted to give it a shot. I didn't fall in love with either of the main characters and I honestly don't remember too much about what happened in the book. Overall, I think you should give it a shot if you enjoyed the first book of this series, and like the camp setting. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

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This book captures a really sweet love story following the arc of strangers to friends to lovers tropes. Russ and Aurora briefly meet at university but only truly get to know each other when they both become counsellor at the same summer camp. Both struggling with family issues (okay…daddy issues), they build their own little “found family” at the camp, falling in love at the same time. The book also features the characters we all fell in love with in Icebreaker which is always fun and gets me excited for the series to continue!

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I have been giving Hannah Grace book's a chance so I decided to give this one a shot as well. I did not really love Icebreaker the way that so many seem to. The summer camp setting was a change that was fun, I do like a camp story however this one was not the best written. Rory feels very "pick me" friend which feels very immature. They go through some big things together (both talk about being the poster for Daddy Issues) that I feel could be addressed better. I also think that Hannah Grace tries to hard to write spicy that it happens se early in the books.

One of the things I loved about this book was the big friend group and found family vibes. I read so much found family that it is a comfort genre at this point.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing me with the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

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This book was so captivating! Romance is out of my usual genre, so I was going in with an open mind. The characters were spunky and enthusiastic and so easy to read. The plot was so smooth and easy to follow. There were times when I wanted to drop the book in frustration, but this was a perfect low angst fun romance that was so easy to blast through! I so so so enjoyed this one!

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While I didn't love Icebreaker, I still enjoyed it for the most part and wanted to give the second book in the series a shot. However, this one fell flat for me, and I ended up DNF'ing it. The pacing was so slow, and in this type of romance, I felt it didn't match with the story or characters. The characters just felt surface level and flat, and I didn't feel like the story was taking me anywhere even when I got halfway through. More times than not, I would get taken out of the story because of how repetitive it got. So many moments felt too drawn out, and I think the book could have been at least 100 pages shorter.
Overall, this wouldn't be at the top of my list of romance recs.

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Thank you for allowing me to read this book. I enjoyed the characters and their arcs, and found the plot interesting. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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I really appreciated this book, I thought it was very well written and I overall really liked the storyline. I loooooved the MC and the steam between her and the main love interest.

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I stan for a golden retriever man (insert clapping)
Russ and Rory were a great couple. I actually liked them better than the pair in Icebreaker . There's definitely spice-- by chapter 5 we're getting into things but I really liked that the characters were vulnerable with each other and Rory dealt with her issues while loving Rory. This book comes with great vibes in the camp setting and found family always pulls on my heartstrings.
If you havent read Hannah Grace-- Id take this one over Icebreaker

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Super cute concept for a fun summer romp. I just didn't enjoy the writing style. To me the dialogue really just fell short.

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This book was fun. Honestly, I think that is Hannah Grace's real strength. She writes very fun romances. I loved the relationship between Russ and Aurora. I felt like it was similar to Nate and Stassie though so at times it really felt like I was reading a similar book to Icebreaker which isn't a bad thing necessarily.

I thought that both Russ and Aurora had very compelling character backgrounds which I liked a lot. Russ's background with his parents really hit home with me. It hurt reading those parts with his father and how he was asking for money. It was so interesting getting to see how he and Aurora navigated a complicated set of daddy issues between the two of them.

I think my favorite part of this might have been the camp setting. The camp was fun and unique and it really had me craving summer. I very much loved the way the children and dogs were written into this story. It's hard to do that sometimes but this felt effortless and compelling. I think Fish, Salmon, and Trout are the true show stoppers next to Xander who I will say needs to come back or needs his own story. I loved him and his background with Mason and Director Skinner would be a good introduction into this world for him.

The only real compliant I have is that I wish Russ was more goalie like. The one thing about goalies in hockey is that they are weird and I felt like Russ was just too normal to be considered weird at all. I know that ultimately some of that is because of the fact that he is in a tough situation with his family, but I still feel like he could have some weird personality traits that would add to his goalie-ness.

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I absolutely loved this book. Much more than the first in the series. The story did a great job of letting you learn and care about the characters.

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Honestly I loved it! Spice with some bite to it. I had a great reading experience and will continue to read her future novels. I appreciate the complexity of the characters and how they lift each other up no matter how dark life gets. Happy that I read it!

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The story had its moments of intrigue and kept me engaged to a certain extent, but it lacked the depth and character development I was hoping for. While the writing style was decent, there were parts where it felt a bit forced or cliché. Overall, it's an okay read if you're looking for something light, but don't expect it to leave a lasting impression.

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I really enjoyed this sequel to Icebreaker. I wasn't super attached to Russ in Icebreaker, but this book quickly made him one of my favorite characters. The romance was perfection, the pacing was great, and the humor had me laughing out loud. It was exactly the kind of light romance I needed, and I read it in two days. Looking forward to book three!

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oh how I loved this one! I was so ready to be back with these characters. The story was set at camp and the main characters, Russ & Aurora, are camp counselors. Let’s just say I went to camp as a kid and I would have been just as nosey as the kids in the book. I loved seeing the two of them develop their relationship together while also dealing with the trauma from their personal lives. And, of course, I loved the cameos from all our Icebreaker characters!

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thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.

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This was such a fun ride. I love a summer camp romance, and this totally delivered. Hannah Grace has developed such a wonderful cast of characters for this series. I look forward to the next one!

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