Icebreaker

When the hockey team's rink is trashed and they have to share the ice-skaters' rink for practice, Stassie is not happy, and the team's captain, Nate, becomes the target of her ire.  Their mutual attraction, which she is unwilling to admit to, does not make things easier. And the cherry on the top is when her skating partner is injured and he blames Nate for his accident.
I am glad I read Wildfire first because if I had started with this one it would have been over for this series. I thought the story was missing one more step to being more dramatic and meaningful. For example, Aaron put Stassie on a horribly strict diet that wasn't enough for her active lifestyle, but beyond it causing some quarreling between her and Nate, then confronting Aaron about, nothing happened. Or when Stassie fell into the frozen lake, there was a brief part in the hospital, and most of my friends who read the book forgot about it a week after they were done. Or later when Nate's dad comes back early during Christmas break. His conversation with Nate was very mellow. I didn't feel that Nate got closure out of it. I liked that the book included interactions with secondary characters. It made me invested in seeing them in future books. Henry was my favorite, with his blunt and unfiltered thoughts. As an antagonist, Aaron was quite bland. Nothing he ever did meant anything in the long run, and it doesn't sound like he suffered any repercussions for his actions.