Author: J. Lynn (Jennifer L. Armentrout)
Series: (Frigid #1)
Published: July 15th 2013
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
Categories: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, New Adult
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Synopsis: 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.

Review: The story of two best of friends falling in love with each other is not exactly the most original idea out there. It’s been told and retold in many ways I couldn’t count. Heck, it’s even the main plot of Taylor Swift’s song You Belong With Me. The no girl who get your humor like she does. Or the girl who knows your story. But oh no, she wears plain shirts and sneakers while he dates girls on short skirts and high heels. So yeah, how can he notice her when she’s just his plain Jane best friend.

Now, we all love the underdog. We root for them. And by the end of the video we know she bagged the guy’s heart because like the title says he belongs with her. This type of story is dime a dozen, but I’m not complaining because if it is done right, you’ll get a very good story.

Frigid is a story of two best of friend. Sydney is been secretly in love with her best friend Kyle. She saw how he treats girls. And she was very much aware that she might not be his type. He looks like the commitment phobe type but still she yearns for his affection. Kyle is Sydney’s best friend. He is very protective of her. Doesn’t want guy get close to her. Labeling those guys dickheads that only want her on their beds. He knows that she is special to him but he’s pushing the idea out of his head because he felt undeserving of her affection. But fate intervenes by isolating them on a place…only the two of them. Yes, just the two of them. Alone. In a cold place.

I have read plenty of rave reviews and while I was staying away from new adult books for a while (since I have a pile of ARCs needed my outmost attention) I still decided to give this one a try. I love this kind of story and as I said earlier when it is done right this kind of story is beautiful. I always believe that friendship is very strong foundation of a good relationship. For me, couple shouldn’t be just lovers, they are also best of friends. Isn’t wonderful to have that kind of person that you can count on from the very beginning? So I was expecting that kind of treatment to their relationship. I would have love if I saw a development between Kyle and Sydney.  Most of this kind, the people involved are reluctant because they don’t want to lose the friendship. Crossing the line means no turning back. But what upset me the most is the fact that Sydney wants that in the most inappropriate, eyeball rolling way. She wanted to be treated like the girls he slept with. I mean, is she blind not to see how he treated those girls with no respect? I know she craves for some intimacy but in my humble opinion, she is demeaning herself just to be with him. Have some respect girl.

The Zach subplot was thrown there due to the lack of development with their relationship. What is there to tell anyway? It didn’t explore such good opportunity. It is like cooking; you have the finest ingredients but weren’t cooked properly.

Anyways, I’ll just go back and hunt some books like this, in hope that there will be one who will get this thing right.

PS. I recommend Snowed In by Rachel Hawthorne (if you want snowed in type of romance) & The Truths about Dating and Mating by Jaycee DeLorenzo (the best friend turn lovers plot).

 
Preview Quote: That’s not what I wanted, but I would’ve accepted that. I wasn’t sure what that said about me—that I could love someone so much I’d accept whatever scrap they tossed my way. It wasn’t right. It was the epitome of weak. — Sydney