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jessread-s · 11 months ago

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*Thank you to the author for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*

✩ 🏒⛸️Review:

Diviak’s sports romance balances deep, emotional topics with heart fluttering moments.

“The Signature Move” follows Logan Beckett and Averie “Ava” Laurier, two athletes who are forced to share a rink. Both are determined to ignore each other, but Waybrook isn’t a big enough town to stop their paths from colliding. When the captain of the Waybrook Winter Wolves hockey team and the world champion skater clash, it’s only a matter of time before anger harbored over divvied rink time melts into passion.

This book has everything I love in a romance: dual pov, rivals to lovers, small town, and slow romantic development. When I say this is a slow burn, it is a slowwww burn. The beginning took a little bit to pick up, but once Logan and Ava finally gave in to their attraction, I could not get enough of their dynamic as a couple. They are characterized so differently with Ava being the sweetest, sunshine girl and Logan being more guarded and stoic. Their opposite personalities compliment each other and make their rivals-to-lovers romance more satisfying.

I really appreciated the emphasis on found family in this book. Both characters experience abuse at the hand of a parent that causes anxiety and in Ava’s case, an eating disorder. Throughout the novel, Logan and Ava build a family of their own with each other and the friends/coaches/teammates they forge meaningful connections with in their close knit town. One qualm I had with this book is that not all the side characters are fleshed out—therefore I wasn’t as invested in them and their own plot lines—but I did like the roles they played in Logan and Ava’s story.

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author-a-holmes · 1 year ago

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ARC Review: The Signature Move

By Cassandra Diviak aka @queen-kass-the-writer

The Signature Move is the first contemporary romance of Cassandra Diviak’s that I’ve delved into and I have to say I’m not in any way disappointed. While I wouldn’t call ‘Sports Romance’ my preferred genre, Diviak is able to bring characters to life with a vivacity that grabs you immediately.

The Signature Move explores themes of domestic violence, parental neglect and emotional abuse, eating disorders, and the worst kind of ex-boyfriend, but with a light, delicate, touch that handles the difficult subject matters with care and careful consideration.

Woven over and through these heavy topics is the kind of beautiful romance I’ve come to expect from Cassandra, bringing a much needed lightness to the story, despite it’s origins within the bounds of an enemies-to-lovers trope. Logan and Ava capture your heart quickly, and their rivalry on the rink will have you rooting for one, or both of them sooner rather than later!

Alongside our main couple is a cast of diverse characters that are a delight to get to know, and gave a warm, underlying, ‘Found Family’ feel to the town of Waybrook.

Overall, a 10/10 read from the wonderful Cassandra Diviak!

Check out some more reviews, and maybe add this wintery romance to your TBR over on Goodreads...

The Signature Move Releases on January 17th! Ebook & Preorders available at Amazon now!

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dr-rato · 3 months ago

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GET ROTATED

#he's driving me insane #so I rotated him #my art #ignore that my signature moves for some reason #animation #gravity falls #billford #bill cipher #the book of bill #stanford pines #art

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wasabi-gumdrop · 7 months ago

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local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

#i’ve seen so many interpretations of that 1 hr freeze frame of Kabru’s smile in ep 16 #he’s meeting his long time crush of course he’s trying to charm him #Kabru so obviously has a big fat giant crush on Laios #like atp in the story he’s tried to talk to him and get his attention so many times agjdjajdj #Laios is the human rubix cube he’s been searching for his entire life #everyone else is almost too easy for Kabru to pin down #Laios on the other hand … a treasure trove of autistic mystery #Kabru is so locked in #Kabru used signature move: charming smile #Laios: no effect!#there’s something so beautiful about the popular pretty boy entering his fumble era when his one true love turns out to be autistic #labru #laios touden #kabru of utaya #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #wasabi rambles #seen so many clock that smile as nefarious and machiavellian #baby no Kabru is just dialing the charm up to 100 and what we’re all feeling is second hand embarrassment LMAO

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scary-monsters · 7 months ago

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my fake bf who eats rocks and has an attitude problem 🧡

#diego brando #steel ball run #jjba sbr #jjba fanart #sbr #my art #diego #i moved my signature to be near his armpit bc that's where i belong #he also whimpers. didnt add that to the description bc i got too shy ☝🏻

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nobleriver · 5 months ago

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Doctor Who Season 7 Minisodes

Rain Gods

#doctor who #dwedit #moffatedit #timelordgifs #riversongedit #river song #eleventh doctor #alex kingston #matt smith #userbbelcher #tvarchive #chewieblog #dailyflicks #romancegifs #otpsource #otp: stay with me #when your signature move that you've been using for over a thousand years fails to impress your wife lol #also just in case anyone asks yes this is post angels take manhattan but before the snowmen christmas special #this takes place in the offscreen adventures 11 and river had when they travelled together #as he asked her to travel with him in 7x5 after amy and rory left #this is our ONLY filmed sneak peak into those adventures #this is also one of if not my favorite doctorriver scene in the entire show #just them being married and having fun together; no monsters to fight or worlds to save; just date night gone wrong bc the doctor can't fly

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kbsd · 6 months ago

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bucky egan // "free" by florence + the machine

the feeling comes so fast and i cannot control it i'm on fire, but i'm trying not to show it

#masters of the air #mota #motaedit #bucky egan #john egan #clegan #hbowaredit #etc.#OK WOOOO #this video has been 80% done for three weeks while i was on vacation #i got home yesterday and viola!#very happy with it; it's definitely my Bucky Thesis video #this song was SO fun to edit to. the beat!!!! normally i wouldn't include two full reps of this chorus #but i wanted one that was his ups and downs with the war in general + one that was his ups and downs with loving buck specifically #and yes if this sounds different than the original song #i did a LOT of chopping and movings sections around to make it fit my vision lmaoo #but i think i did a decently seamless job. who knows #my brain the entire time i was editing the dance section of this was just that one pic of kermit screaming with all the hearts #also there are SO many match dissolves+cuts in this video bc well. i like to have fun #it's my signature move what can i say #tw gore #tw blood #just in case for that shot of dickie #kbsd.amv #kbsd.mota

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slutpoppers · 4 months ago

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Agumon

Digimon Adventure OVA (1999)

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smalldumbpigeon · 1 year ago

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I know I am loved

I've always been really into family dynamics and idk some thing kills me that he addresses Count Edmont as "my lord", but prior to the A Knight's Calling refers to him as "father". biting my fist.... wraughh,,,,,,

#ffxiv #haurchefant greystone #edmont de fortemps #pigeon signature move: lure you in with fluff punch you with angst #yes haurchefant lives au #i miss my wife tails

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faunandfloraas · 7 months ago

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