Rowena’s review of Frigid (Frigid #1) by J. Lynn.
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.
Kyler and Sydney are best friends, and Sydney has been in love with Kyler for as long as she can remember. What Syd doesn’t know is that Kyler has those same feelings for her but he won’t let himself act on them because she’s too good for him. He’s the boy from the wrong side of the track and she’s the girl he’ll never let himself have because she deserves someone better than him. But things are thrown in the air when they’re stuck at Kyler’s Mom’s cabin in the mountains during a massive snow storm. Feelings come to the surface and things spiral out of control until they have no choice but to deal with it all.
There is nothing I like more than a good ol’ best friends to lovers story and this was definitely one of those. Kyler and Sydney are young adults who have feelings for each other but have not come clean with each other…and there were times in the book where these undeclared feelings got to be a bit much. I mean, my heart hurt for Syd and then my heart sighed for Kyler but the longer they kept their feelings for each other a secret from each other and then the goofy way they acted when Sydney comes clean made me want to smack some damn sense into the both of them.
But this book ends the way that it needs to end and even through all of my frustrations with both Kyler and Sydney, I did end up really liking their story. Kyler was completely droolworthy and Sydney was completely relatable (is that a word?). They frustrated me but I chalked that up to them being young. When I closed the book, I was happy that I read the book and anxious for more from this author so that’s saying something, right?
Either way, if you’re in the mood for a New Adult read, pick this one up. It’s good.
Grade: 3.5 out of 5
This book is available from Spencer Hill Contemporary. You can purchase it here or here in e-format.
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