Frigid by J. Lynn, Jennifer L Armentrout

Frigid (Frigid, #1)

by J. Lynn and Jennifer L. Armentrout

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.

Reviewed by Angie on

3 of 5 stars

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I liked Frigid, but not as much as I had hoped. I adored the friends to lovers romance, but the romantic suspense twist just did nothing for me. Sydney and Kyler have been friends since third grade. They're getting close to graduating from college, and now is the time where their true feelings for each other come out. Every year they go to Snowshoe for some skiing before Christmas, but a blizzard hits before the rest of their friends can arrive. Sydney and Kyler are now stuck together in a cabin without electricity, and someone is lurking around causing more trouble for them.

I'll start with what I loved about Frigid, which was the friends to lovers romance and whole being stranded scenario. These are two of my favorite romance tropes. Sydney has been in love with Kyler for years, but he's not the commitment type. He has a different girl practically every night. She thinks it's because Kyler just doesn't see her as a sexy female, but the truth of the matter is, he values their friendship too much and doesn't think he's good enough for her. I also love misunderstandings! Luckily, having only each other as company, the truth must come out, and that it does! There's plenty of sexual tension in the beginning, and then plenty of sexy times in the middle! I did not want that blizzard to end! They needed to stay in that cabin forever! But it was not meant to be, especially when someone is shooting out windows and cutting the power.

Frigid's suspense plot was just boring. There was nothing suspenseful about it at all. I knew who the culprit was from the moment the window exploded. We're not introduced to too many characters, since only a few people are there due to the snow, so it's not hard to figure out. Their motive also didn't make much sense, and yet, it causes a huge fight between our lovebirds! I don't understand how Sydney could blame the situation on Kyler. Sure, the shooter's motive involved him, but Kyler in no way made this person do what they did. Also, him fully disclosing everything (which wasn't even her business to start with) to her wouldn't have changed anything. I hate this type of forced fight! It would have been much better to have all of the "scary" stuff happen, and just leave it at that. No need to stretch the blame to start a fight.

Just one more nitpicky thing that didn't really affect my rating, but did bother me. There are several typos throughout Frigid, and there are some inconsistencies. Specifically Kyler and Sydney are both wearing jeans at one point, and yet when they get naked, both of them remove their sweats. It's not like there are many pages between when the jeans are mentioned to when the sweats are taken off either. It's just a couple of paragraphs! No way they could have changed so fast! Or maybe they were wearing jeans and sweats (it was freezing), but then only took of the sweats and had sex through their jeans?

I liked Frigid. The romance was steamy, and I loved the alone in a cabin during a storm set up. I just wish the focus had stayed on the romance without the underdeveloped suspense going on.

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