This story focuses on the fact that there is more to people than what meets the eye, as Jasmine finds herself falling back in love with figure skating at the same time as she begins to fall for Ivan. He, as readers come to find out, is not all that welcoming to outsiders, but he opens his home and his heart to Jasmine as soon as they start spending more than five minutes in the same room together.

As Jasmine learns what it feels like to compete again, she also learns how to trust a partner in a way that backfired for her the last time around. Ivan proves that he is up to the task of getting her to open up, but Jasmine still thoroughly showcases hesitant feelings towards becoming close. Ultimately, this book works itself out to be an enemies to lovers sort of story, with a happy ending. I am normally a sucker for those, as you will see if you read any more of my reviews.

However, the one thing that stuck out to me from a negative standpoint throughout this book is the pace at which it moves emotionally. The prospect of them being friends after spending so much time together is believable, but the pace at which they change from friends to more than that is a bit of a stretch, because there is no moment where readers can see the friendship turn into romantic feelings. I’m not saying that there has to always be a definitive moment, but I would’ve liked to see a little bit more of a gradual change in feelings, because the speed of the transition doesn’t allow for chemistry to build in the way that it should.

I still gave this book four stars, mostly, because I like the way it was written from a descriptive standpoint outside of the feelings of the main characters. The scene was always set perfectly, and the imagery used aloud for readers to easily be able to picture where the characters were at at any given point in time. This is the first book I have read from her, but it will not be the last.