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This was very sweet, gentle, cheesy and romantic.
Hunter and Bryce obviously share an epic kind of love. They adore each other with all that they are, and it shows. It’s very over-the-top ‘love of my life�� kind of stuff.

However, their complete overdose of cuteness and sappiness did start to become very boring over time. They basically get together in the middle of the book, and during the whole second half nothing happens aside from them looking dreamily into each other’s eyes, thinking and talking about how much they love each other, and, of course, they also play hockey together. It’s sweet, but repetitive. The prose is also very flowery.

Is this what falling in love really is? Finding that half of your heart lives within another? Having all your questions and wonders and worries from before answered through the shape of someone else’s smile?

The beginning of this book was amazing, though. The way they got to know each other and how enamoured Bryce was with Hunter from the get-go was all quite lovely.
It was amazing to see them form a connection, and it was also beautifully sad to see how heartbroken they both were when they had to go their separate ways.
The angst coming from Bryce when he thought he could never have Hunter was one of my favourite parts.

Long story short, I loved the first half of this book, but unfortunately the second half was a complete bore.

Also, fair warning: there is quite a lot of French in this book. I speak it a little, so I didn’t have to use google translate all the time, but I already found it very annoying. I can imagine it being extremely tiresome to have to use google translate for even more of these sentences while reading this book if you don’t understand French at all.