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.
I'm not entirely sure what to make of Frigid. It's definitely a book I wish I had read while curled up in comfies with some hot chocolate by a fire while snow was flurrying outside the window. I think the cold, the threatening situation, and the forces that drove Sydney and Kyler together would have been much more present had I not read it in the middle of summer. However, I have to say, even in the middle of summer, this book is pretty amazing - even if it got weird sometimes.
The romance plot is my favorite type - with friends falling in love - and I think J. Lynn is incredible at writing and pacing the progression of a relationship. She just has a way of making it feel like the right thing happening at the right time and it's easy to sink into. I loved the way Kyler and Sydney already had a natural friendship and they brought up their history constantly just in sharing memories, so they were best friends without just saying they were best friends. Even when they're hurting each other (without completely realizing it) they are there for one another, no matter what. I kind of got annoyed at the beginning that Sydney seemed to exist to pine after him, but I'm pretty sure it annoyed me because I'm an all-star piner and that's something that drives me crazy about myself.
The thing is - and this is where I can't quite decide what I think about this book - is their relationship was already on an obvious progression and I feel like they would have gotten to where they needed to be on their own, but there were all these weird circumstances that were thrown in to push them together. There's the fact that they're snowed into a skiing cabin alone when their friends are unable to meet them. Which is fine - that's a great circumstance to make two people confront their feelings for one another. But then there's this thing where someone is messing with the house and they seem to be pretty dangerous. It's never quiet a horror novel, but it has the elements that indicate it could be if it wanted to. But the things that happen that are a little terrifying are things that seem to accelerate the budding romance. It annoys me slightly that these attacks seem to happen just to accelerate the budding romance, rather than happening as a main part of the story. However, I do appreciate that J. Lynn did something a little different in the NA field and shook things up a bit.
There are little things that I loved, too, like the way Kyler and Sydney just have fun and play with one another and just the little ways they showed they really knew each other inside and out. I really felt their friendship and so it was naturally awesome when they took it further. Well, it wasn't awesome at first - I'm actually not thrilled with the way Kyler handled it when Sydney first spoke up about what she wanted - but that's something that's easy to get over. I just think J. Lynn has an awesome eye for character and a way of creating two characters who compliment each other so well. Frigid is nothing like it's title - it's hot, it's completely enjoyable, and it's brimming with love.
