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cosettepontmercys · 4 months

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books read in 2024!

books read so far: 58/100

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⊹ indicates any (new) favorites of the month! previous months are under the cut!

april ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) the goodbye cat by hiro arikawa (reread) 2) the traveling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa (reread) 3) this is me trying by racquel marie (arc) 4) kill her twice by stacey lee (arc) 5) the pairing by casey mcquiston (arc) 6) swiped by l.m. chilton (arc) 7) lies and weddings by kevin kwan (arc) 8) the odyssey by homer (audiobook)

january ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) beach read by emily henry (reread) 2) on palestine by noam chomsky & ilan pappé 3) valley verified by kyla zhao (gifted) 4) the wind at my back: resilience, grace, and other gifts from my mentor, raven wilkinson by misty copeland & susan fales-hill (gifted) 5) check please: year one by ngozi ukazu (reread) 6) check please: year two by ngozi ukazu (reread) 7) check please: year three by ngozi ukazu (reread) 8) check please: year four by ngozi ukazu (reread) 9) raiders of the lost heart by jo segura (gifted) 10) the frame-up by gwenda bond (arc) 11) everything i never told you by celeste ng ⊹ 12) forgive me not by jennifer baker (gifted) 13) ever after always by chloe liese (gifted) 14) the summer of bitter and sweet by jen ferguson (gifted) 15) the lily of ludgate hill by mimi matthews (gifted) 16) last call at the local by sarah grunder ruiz (gifted) ⊹ 17) the sun and the void by gabriela romero-lacruz (gifted) 18) a line in the dark by malinda lo (gifted) 19) biting the hand: growing up asian in black and white america by julia lee (gifted) 20) play it as it lays by joan didion → january wrap up

february ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) mister hockey by lia riley * 2) collide by bal khabra (arc) * 3) a curious beginning by deanna raybourn (gifted) 4) breaking the ice by k.r. collins * 5) if only you by chloe liese (gifted) * 6) anxious people by frederik backman ⊹ 7) the catch by amy lea (gifted) 8) weekends with you by alexandra paige (arc) 9) happily never after by lynn painter (arc) 10) klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro 11) good material by dolly alderton 12) in the event this doesn't fall apart by shannon lee barry 13) the night ends with fire (arc) by k.x. song 14) the good, the bad, and the aunties (arc) by jesse q. sutanto 15) where sleeping girls lie (arc) by faridah àbíké-íyímídé 16) sophomore surge by k.r. collins * 17) lighting the lamp by k.r. collins * 18) glove save and a beauty by k.r. collins * 19) home ice advantage by k.r. collins * 20) power play by k.r. collins * 21) grounded by k.r. collins * 22) line chemistry by k.r. collins * → february wrap up

march ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) happy medium by sarah adler (arc) 2) a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (audiobook) 3) expiration dates by rebecca serle (arc) 4) divine rivals by rebecca ross (book club) 5) the siren by katherine st. john (gifted) 6) light in gaza edited by jehad abusalim 7) how to end a love story by yulin kuang (arc) // reviewed here 8) rising from the deep: the seattle kraken, a tenacious push for expansion, and the emerald city's sports revival by geoff baker 9) les misérables by victor hugo (reread) → march wrap up

#post: 2024 reading thread #i love starting the year out with a reread of a favorite! takes the pressure off <3 #and since allison started reading beach read last night i decided to join her!!!

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werewolfbneimitzvah · 10 months

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Care to share the book, boss?

Breaking the Ice by K.R. Collins. Fiction book about a hockey lady. There's like 7 in the series plus a small extra side story about a different character so if i keep liking them this much I'm gonna be well-fed on reading material for days

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demisexualnathanvuornos · 1 year

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Canon AroAces 222/?: Gabrielle Gagnon from K.R. Collins' Sophie Fournier series (Book 1~; 3.5 Glove Save and a Beauty novella; Book 5: Power Play(2019-)

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nocticola · 1 year

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Reading 2023: K.R. Collins Sophie Fournier Book 7: Line Chemistry (2022): 16.1; 18.1; 21.1-25.1.2023

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indigomarketing · 1 year

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New Release Blitz: Line Chemistry by K.R. Collins (Excerpt & Giveaway)

Title: Line Chemistry Series: Sophie Fournier, Book Seven Author: K.R. Collins Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 11/29/2022 Heat Level: 2 – Fade to Black Sex Pairing: Female/Female Length: 73200 Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQIA+, Contemporary, sports, family-drama, demisexual, bisexual, ice hockey, teammates, slow burn Add to Goodreads Description Coming off a season of professional highs and…

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#bisexual #Contemporary #demisexual #family drama #ice hockey #LGBTQIA+#slow burn #Sports #teammates

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lgbtqreads · 2 years

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Errant, Vol. 1 by L.K. Fleet

Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover for Errant, Vol. 1, the very first in a new novella series by L.K. Fleet, the pen name for the formidable joined forces of K. R. Collins, Felicia Davin, and Valentine Wheeler! This f/f (bi/lesbian) fantasy releases on February 15th, and here’s the story: Aspen Silverglade used to be a force for good, but now she’s just a sword for hire. On the…

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#bisexual #f/f #Fantasy #Felicia Davin #K.R. Collins #L.K. Fleet #Laya Rose #Lesbian #Valentine Wheeler

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yokyopeli · 3 years

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Korhonen of the Montreal Mammoths (K.R. Collins’ Sophie Fournier series 1: Breaking the Ice 2019; 2: Sophomore Surge 2019)

#sophie fournier #kr collins #k.r. collins #suomi mainittu #one finn in the whole damn hockey league #and of course he's a #korhonen #montreal mammoths

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arojenniferwalters · 4 years

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Read and bought for A-spec August 2020

#aspec august #kelley armstrong #breaking the ice #libba bray #s. jae jones #the unstoppable wasp #ultraviolet #quicksilver #k.r. collins #nadia van dyne #wintersong #i already have shadowsong #the diviners #rj anderson #sophie fournier #logan danvers #tori beaugrand #ling chan

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bookstattoosandtea · 2 years

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Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: Grounded by K.R. Collins

Title: Grounded Series: Sophie Fournier, Book 6 Author: K.R. Collins Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 12/21/2021 Heat Level: 1 – No Sex Pairing: Female/Female Length: 76000 Genre: Contemporary Sports, “LGBTQIA+, contemporary, sports, family-drama, demisexual, bisexual, ice hockey, teammates, coach, injury” Add to Goodreads Description Sophie’s coach was fired over the summer but not…

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ladylilacreviews · 5 years

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Review for Breaking the Ice by K.R. Collins

The Summary:

Sophie Fournier is the first woman drafted into the North American Hockey League. Playing hockey is something she’s done all her life, but she faces new challenges as she finds her place on the struggling Concord Condors. She has to prove herself better than her rival-turned-teammate, Michael Hayes, and her rival-turned-friend, Dmitri Ivanov, and she has to do it all with a smile.

If she’s successful then she opens the door to other women being drafted. She can’t afford to think about what happens if she fails. All she knows is this: if she’s not the best then she doesn’t get to play.

No pressure, though.

The Short of It:

The fact that I finished this book at 3:30 in the morning on a workday, the morning after I decided to start it, realized I could manage *maybe* a few hours sleep before I had to wake up again to start my day, and decided “Yes that was absolutely worth it” is perhaps the most glowing review I have for Breaking the Ice by K.R. Collins. It’s not so often these days that I stay up from dusk until dawn because I absolutely need to see a book through to the end right this moment, rest, work, and every other real world circumstance be damned, so when that does happen, I always make note of the book responsible as being something particularly special. Rest assured, Breaking the Ice is absolutely something special.

The Long of It:

What makes this book special? It’s a sports novel, which is a genre that I as somebody who doesn’t follow traditional sports at all have a strangely deep fascination with. However, unlike many sports novels, it manages a feat I consider especially valuable within the genre - it remains interesting and engaging without demanding a deep, or even really a basic knowledge of the sport in question. Hockey is perhaps a particularly good choice of sport for managing this, as the combination of blistering speed, high-octane action, and a healthy dose of violence have in my opinion always rendered hockey one of the easier sports to just dive in and watch and enjoy without really understanding the game as it plays out in front of you. The nuances of strategy aren’t so important as the speed and intensity playing out right in front of you and it is this feeling that Breaking the Ice replicates especially well. The hockey scenes in this book (and there are plenty of them) are cinematic, and from our perspective seeing everything through protagonist Sophie’s eyes, we experience that intensity, the frantic pace of the game and the desperate moments on the ice intimately.

This brings us to the second thing that makes Breaking the Ice special, which is that before being a novel about hockey, this is a novel about Sophie Sophie, the first female player to ever be drafted into the NAHL, who carries the burden of representing the entire female gender within the eyes of the hockey-loving population, who faces discrimination and harassment and so many people telling her “you don’t deserve to be here” even as she proves time and time again that she doesn’t just have what it takes to be good, she has what it takes to be the best. Hockey is the vessel for this character-centric journey, and the fact that Breaking the Ice never strayed from placing Sophie, her character development, and her various relationships with the teammates, friends, and family surrounding her above the game that acts as the framework for her story is something I value tremendously.

Speaking of Sophie, she is just an exceptional character overall. She isn’t always likeable; sometimes it seems like she’s awfully out of touch with her emotions, and at times she makes decisions that will frustrate many readers to no end, but this all contributes to making her feel real. She’s a girl who loves hockey with all her heart, who wants to spend her whole life playing it, but her status as the first woman to break into the big leagues means she has to be so much more than that, and *that* struggle more than anything else is what carries this book forward.

Sophie is also surrounded by a fairly strong supporting cast of characters. I can’t really give the supporting cast the same glowing endorsement I’ve given the rest of the book, because at times these characters seemed to just blend together, and especially in the earlier parts of the book, didn’t really stand out from each other. Lack of proper introduction seemed to play a role in this. One of the stand out moments for me that highlights this issue was actually a rather nondescript passage in the book, during one of the games in which Sophie passes the puck to a character named X. I actually paused my reading and jotted down a note in by notebook to let the publisher know that i thought I’d encountered a moment where a placeholder name hadn’t been replaced with an actual name. It wasn’t until quite a bit later in the book when X appeared a few more times that I realized X was actually the nickname for one of the players on Sophie’s team. I couldn’t even tell you if his real name ever came up; I spent most of his appearances just trying to figure out who on earth he was in the first place.

When they’re given proper time in the spotlight and allowed to develop, some of these supporting characters shine. Ivanov was simply delightful, and I loved the dynamic of ‘we’ve been painted by the casters as huge rivals but screw it let’s just watch TV together and be friends’. As far as Sophie’s teammates are concerned, team captain Matty was somebody I really liked. Garfield, Zhang, and Kevlar were important nods to other minorities who face less overtly visible discrimination and harassment than Sophie. Other side characters such as Merlin were great fun once we go to know them, and through their interactions and relationships with Sophie contributed to making her the complex and dynamic protagonist that she is.

The Verdict:

I think highly of this book. Very highly. I wavered between 4 and 4.5 stars for a good long while, and though I ultimately settled on a 4 star rating, that has less to do with quality and more to do with impact. Breaking the Ice is a fun, exciting, quality read about the very real struggles and challenges faced by a woman breaking into a space dominated by men, framed as a sports novel. However, I typically reserve 4.5 star reviews for books that either totally transform or subvert my expectations for the genre. Breaking the Ice, though excellent, did not do that. Make no mistake though; if anything about this book catches your interest even a little, and even if you don’t think anything about it does, this is a book that is absolutely well worth reading.

4 out of 5 stars

This unbiased review was provided in exchange for a free ARC from the publisher via Netgalley

You can find more of my reviews on my review blog https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ladylilacreviews

#K.R. Collins #Breaking the Ice #Book Review #Ninestar Press

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neverhollowed · 4 years

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White Cup - Komari Nodoka

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Out of Darkness: Captivated - Brittany Cournoyer

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Soundtrack: Gonna Get Close to You Artist: Dalbello Album: whomanfoursays

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movie features: Socrates watch trailer here

FIRST LINE FRIDAY 56: The Perils of Mooning a Hitman

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (Nov 27, 2019)

BOOK BLAST: Body Parts and Mind Games by Jude Tresswell (Excerpt)

New Release Blitz: Sophomore Surge by K.R. Collins (Excerpt & Giveaway)

New Release Blitz: The Mirror Maze by Dianne Hartsock (Excerpt & Giveaway)

NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Awakening by J.J. Harper (Excerpt & Giveaway)

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demisexualnathanvuornos · 1 year

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Canon Demis 19b/?: Sophie Fournier in K.R. Collins' Sophie Fournier Book 7: Line Chemistry (2022)

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nocticola · 1 year

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Reading 2022: K.R. Collins Sophie Fournier Book 5: Power Play (2021): 12.-17.12.2022

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k-r-collins · 4 years

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So a very cool thing happened on October 27, 2019 (which I realized on October 31,2019, because I am behind on my podcast listening). My debut novel Breaking the Ice was given a shout out on The Steve Dangle Podcast (at 1:20:20 for those curious). And honestly, it’s a miracle I ever calmed down enough to sleep last night.

Breaking the Ice was a labor of love, done for the most part by myself, with just my computer to keep me company, as I assume most books are. I had my dedicated cheerleader who read every word of the terrible first draft, encouraging me to keep going (and going and going and going until I had an entire series drafted). Later, I would have my beta readers, without whom I wouldn’t have a book this strong and then even later, my wonderful team of editors at NineStar.

But in the beginning, it was me, someone who has put on ice skates once in their very distant memory, setting out to write a book about a fictional hockey league. And now, the second book in the series, Sophomore Surge, is coming out November 25, 2019, the third book is being prepped to submit to my editor, and a copy of Breaking the Ice is on Ice Surfing.

How did this all happen?

Well, as I said above, I’ve never played hockey, never even really put any kind of skates on. I’d never even seen a hockey game until I was in college (but that’s a story for another time). So to get to the point where I could confidently write a novel about hockey, I had to do research. I DVRed entire playoff series at my parents’ so I could subsume myself in hockey footage. I got GameCenter Live so I could watch a variety of teams (almost) any time I wanted. I subscribed to the Athletic and hunted for writers and articles relevant to what I was writing. And I listened to podcasts - The Steve Dangle Podcast and now 31 Thoughts: The Podcast.

It was the best kind of research; though, to be fair, the SDP podcast was something I listened to before I had the idea of this novel in my head. It’s a big part of the reason I even became as much of a hockey fan as I am now. I began listening when I was still new to the sport, and while I had some basic hockey knowledge, I knew nothing about the Maple Leafs. To be honest, in the beginning, I listened for the Pokemon jokes. But eventually some of it began to sink in. I started to learn more about hockey, and I could name most of the Leafs roster, and I could give you a 2-hour talk complete with PowerPoint slides on the greatness of James Reimer.

The podcast became a staple of my week, listening to these three friends make a living out of what they love to do; talking hockey. And when Steve announced he was writing a book, it was even more exciting because writing and hockey are two of my favorite things. When his book came out, he did signings in Canada, but the podcast audience went beyond the borders of Canada and even North America so he set up a PO Box for people to send their books for him to sign (or other things).

I took the second option. I wanted to do the first, I’d like a copy of my book signed, but I was defeated by the concept of return-stamped international mail. So in the end I sent a one-way package with a copy of my book. Because in the acknowledgements, I mentioned Steve, Adam, Jesse, and their podcast. As I said above, it was a hugely formative influence on developing my love of hockey and my interest in the sport. But it was also a constant example of zeroing in on what you want to do and pursuing it wholeheartedly. (Steve’s book - This Team is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them) shows Steve’s journey as hockey fan to professional hockey fan and how he chased after something he’s incredibly passionate about).

So, yeah. Without ever knowing it, Steve, Adam, and Jesse became role models to me on my own journey, both of discovering hockey and pursuing my passions, and I wanted to acknowledge it in some way. And, as it turns out, there’s an entire part of a book dedicated to that very thing (different from the dedication which I knew but did not really understand until I was prepping my first book for publication). So I put a thank you in there knowing they would probably never see it, but I would know it was there. And then Steve opened a PO Box.

And now we’re here.

Breaking the Ice was published in March 2019, and I almost can’t believe it’s still 2019. Since it was published I have:

1. Been able to hold a physical copy of a book I wrote in my own hands (I may never get over how cool this is) 2. Gone to my high school to talk with a group of students about my book 3. Had a second book accepted and (fingers crossed) will have a third soon as well 4. Gotten a shout out from my role models

And there’s still two months left to go :)

-K.R. Collins

#sports #hockey #my writing #Breaking the Ice #Sophie Fournier

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dkehoe · 4 years

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This Chicks Hockey Mini Reviews!

I saw the third book in this series on NetGalley and it peaked my interest. The couple of reviews I read stated emphatically that this series was NOT a romance series, it’s straight fiction with a ton of hockey. A couple reviewers said too much hockey, but since I’m a fan of the sport I wanted to read it. However, I didn’t want to start with book three, so I purchased the first in the Sophie…

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#amazon #book reivews #book review #books #fiction #goodreads #Hockey #K.R. Collins #overdrive #reading #Sports fiction

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thebloggergirls · 5 years

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Release Blitz: Breaking the Ice by K.R. Collins + Excerpt & Giveaway!

Breaking the Ice by K.R. Collins

Sophie Fournier is the first woman drafted into the North American Hockey League. Playing hockey is something she’s done all her life, but she faces new challenges as she finds her place on the struggling Concord Condors. She has to prove herself better than her rival-turned-teammate, Michael Hayes, and her rival-turned-friend, Dmitri Ivanov, and she has to do it…

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#Breaking the Ice #K.R. Collins #NineStar Press #Series - Sophie Fournier #The Blogger Girls

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