Goalies Don’t Date Ice Princesses book review

Goalies Don't Date Ice Princesses by Clara Neilsen follows Bri who is a figure skater and struggles with Insomnia. When she goes for nightly skates she meets Archer, the goalie on the school hockey team and her best friend's brother. It discusses grief, mental health and what a sport can mean to you in a way that feels light, digestible and doesn't bring the tone of the story down. This is a young adult hockey romance and there is nothing in it that suggests it wasn't written with a teenage audience in mind.

This book is written from Bri's point of view throughout which meant that for the first hundred or so pages I wasn't actually sure of what our main character's name was but I really enjoyed the writing style and being inside Bri's head. It didn't feel like a style I read a lot of so it made a nice change.

Our two lead characters are Bri and Archer but we do spend a decent percentage of the book with other characters as well, the most notable being Bri's best friend and Archer's triplet sister Adelynn (I think that's her name). I really enjoyed the dynamics between our characters and getting to know them all. I haven't read the first book in the series but I would definitely consider doing so after reading this one, even if only to see more of these characters.

I highly enjoyed the romance and how it developed. As this is a shorter book it did feel quite fast but I enjoyed that and the pace made it easy to fly through. Bri and Archer came to mean a lot to each other and I really liked how they gave each other support along with helping them through the tough bits.

This was a fun, enjoyable read that I had a great time with. I would definitely recommend it to YA romance fans, especially those looking for a clean hockey romance. As someone who has wanted to read a hockey romance but been put off by how spicy they apparently are I highly enjoyed this one and would appreciate recs for any like it.

Thank you Clara Neilsen for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review. Goalies Don’t Date Ice Princesses was published January 12th 2024 and is available now.

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