Frigid by J. Lynn / Jennifer L. Armentrout
Release: July 15, 2013
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
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For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn’t anything new. They’d been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the ‘man’ in man-whore. He’s never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn’t want to risk their friendship by declaring her love.
Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she’s perfect and she’s everything. But the feelings he has for her, he’s always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have.
But when they’re stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor’easter, there’s nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.
Frigid follows Sydney and Kyler, two friends with unshared feelings for each other stranded alone during a blizzard. When strange things start to happen, they realize they might not be as alone as they originally believed.
I’ve had this on my bookpile for years. Recently, I’ve decided to consider the mini bookshelf I have as a TBR so I’m slowly going through it since those are the easiest books I can find at the moment.
I love J. Lynn / Jennifer L. Armentrout. I think her writing is fun and expressive, it’s quirky and practical, it’s everything I want when I read. In typical fashion, I flew through this like normal JLA books and I’m not ashamed.
With this one, I found more issues than usual.
Things I like:
- The friendship between Sydney and Kyler. I love seeing friendships that are old and filled with history, just like theirs. Sydney helps him with his issues, Kyler is an ear for her. Even when clouded by affection, they still try and do what’s right for each other.
- The families. I enjoyed seeing Sydney’s family – little snippets – in this. It was nice to see an additional side to her. Also, with Kyler. It was nice to see him care about his mother and her feelings for his career – even when he didn’t agree with it.
Things I didn’t like:
- Sydney didn’t seem to have any independence. She’s a twenty-one year old woman and Kyler – while he’s not dating her – is making her decisions for her.
- The unrequited love. Sydney has had a crush on her best friend, manwhore Kyler, since they were kids. She’s never thought of herself as the type of girl he would go for because she doesn’t leave her ‘goods’ on display. Kyler has had a crush on Sydney since they were kids but never thought of himself as worthy of her affection because of how he grew up as the kids from the other side of the tracks. So they constantly say the wrong things around each other, do the wrong things around each other, and never say how they are really feeling.
- The manwhore love interest. Kyler supplements his feelings by sleeping with a lot of women. Usually leaving in front of Sydney or letting Sydney see them in the morning.
- The overprotective one. Kyler is one of those guys who is overprotective and will fight any man for looking at Sydney the wrong way or shows any interest in Sydney. We see his hatred for a man that Sydney is interested in simply because they are getting close. A bit hypocritical, huh, Kyler?
- The height difference. This just might be a personal preference of mine but Sydney is 5’2″ and Kyler is 6’something. Why are there always such large height differences?
- The unnecessary violence. Seriously, everything in this book could have been prevented if someone wasn’t so violent.
I know there are a lot of things that I don’t like about this book but that’s only because I’ve seen those things happen many, many, many times in other novels.
I did still enjoy the story. It’s a short read and I’m not upset about it and I don’t think it wasted my time.
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