Tag: mental illness

• REVIEW: Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei

  

  A. L. Graziadei’s Icebreaker is an irresistible YA debut about two hockey players fighting to be the best—and the romance that catches them by surprise along the way. Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down…

  charkinzie

  18 Dec 2021

  Books, Contemporary, lgbtqia content, mental health, new adult, romance, self-discovery, sports, young adult

  2021, 2021 review, book, book review, Book Reviews, Books, depression, found family, hockey, icebreaker, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia young adult fiction, mental illness, NHL draft, Queer new adult, queer young adult, review, sports romance, teammates

• REVIEW: To Be Alive by B. Rourke

  

  The Official Description:  At twenty-two years old, Rhett Hawkins lives a life full of secrets and lies. Nobody knows the truth about his childhood growing up in an abusive home, the eating disorder that threatens to take his life, the obsessive thoughts about death that play like a movie in the back of his mind,…

  charkinzie

  23 Jul 2020

  canadian, coming out, Contemporary, diverse characters, mental health, MM romance, sexually explicit, substance abuse

  2020 review, abuse in past, b. Rourke, book, book review, Books, character is a police officer, child abuse., drug addiction, eating disorder, Goodreads, homophobia, mental illness, netgalley, NineStar Press, review, substance abuse, to be alive