2.5 Stars. I always appreciate a new author trying to write lesfic, but this just didn’t work for me. I had such trouble reading this book. Read the book, put it down. Read more of the book, put it right back down. It took me 3 days to get through a book that should have taken only a few hours.

When I saw the premise of this book I was so excited to read it. A figure skater and a short track speed skater sounded great to me. With the Olympics (I love the Olympics) starting next month, what a perfect time to read a winter sports romance. Actually the sports part of this book I enjoyed, it’s the rest of it that didn’t work for me.

The first half of this book is just about sex. It was actually bordering on being porn instead of erotica to me. I draw the difference as erotica being really hot sex scenes with two people that are in love, have feelings for each other, or at least there is some storyline involved. The first half of this book was just sex scenes with two people that I could not even tell if they even liked each other. Not only that, but the internal thoughts of the characters were so crude, I felt like I was reading about two 16 year-old boys. I’m no prude and I can have a mouth on me, but it was so over the top “locker room” type of talk ( I can’t believe I just used the phrase) it didn’t sound like two women, just like a caricature of a horny bisexual and lesbian.

Now I will admit the second half of the book was better. First half 2 stars, second half 3 stars. It was actually when the characters spent some time apart, I started liking the book. It focused on the sports and I found them enjoyable. Then a sort of tiny romance started; I could actually sense some possible feeling being involved. Did it save the whole book for me? No. But it went from being a possible DNF to at least being palatable.

Unfortunately, I can’t recommend this one. There are so many fantastic lesfic book out there that this doesn’t really hold up against them. As I said above, I appreciate Parker taking a chance on write lesfic, it just didn’t work for my personal tastes.

I found this book at turns hot and boring. Which was frustrating for me. I wanted to really enjoy it because I love the Olympics and am dying for a book I can really sink my teeth into about them. I enjoyed this relationship...but didn't find the plot all that interesting to me.

If you’re in the market for an erotic lesfic tale with athletes as your mains, then look no further. This book is exactly as advertised. It’s super hot with witty banter. Blaze and Maisy have great chemistry in the bedroom....their relationship out of the bedroom left something to be desired. Overall this is a hot read. It’s not much on the romance for those that are looking for hotness and romance.

4 stars

Blaze loves living life at a fast pace. She is in the top ranks as a speed skater for the USA, and her sex life is just as charged. Identifying openly as bisexual and polyamorous, nothing is off limits.

Maisy is a Canadian figure skater, always in the top ten but never in the medals. Controlled by parents, coaches and the team managers, she has mastered the quiet acquiescence required to slip through life without standing out. Only Blaze knows this is a ruse.

After a drunken night at the last Snow and Ice Games, Blaze and Maisy commiserated their losses with days of sexual escapades. It has stuck in their minds and both are relishing the thought of getting together again at the current SIG competition.

This was an erotic romance that had some believable interactions and a nice setup. I liked how the characters interacted; there was a good sense of build up even though they got together fairly early in the book. This gave Parker an opportunity to skip over the ‘just met’ introductions, and move onto the second part of a relationship, in which the characters can’t keep their hands off each other but are still trying to work out how they fit together. It’s an interesting place in a relationship to locate a book.

It does also give Parker an opportunity to really explore the sexuality of the characters, and she does this with gusto. The sex scenes are explicit and hot, and there are plenty of them. A sweet romance this isn’t. However, one of the characters was honest about the fact that she was bisexual and polyamorous, and the other is more comfortable being monogamous, so it was interesting to see how the characters managed that.

Knowing several polyamorous friends, I loved seeing that reflected in a book. Even in lesbian fiction, most of our romance books reflect the idea of two people forming a monogamous bond. While that is a common partnering arrangements in most cultures, it is lovely to see another version that is also honest and respectful of the characters.

This is the fourth book in a series by Parker. I haven’t read any of her other books, but it looks like she writes a range of sexually charged romances, mostly hetero, but including characters who are lesbian, gay, bi and trans. It’s an interesting mix.

Parker handles the characters and the erotic aspects well, and I think it must be difficult to do as this is actually really rare in the books I’ve read. I have now bought a number of her other books. Enjoy.

Advanced reading copy provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

3.5 Stars

This is my 2nd book this author (the first being the M/M pairing in the same series), and once again, I found the story to be charming and delightful. The author has a knack for creating distinct characters with relatable and often hilarious voices. The sex scenes were plentiful, creative and all in all, most excellent. My favorite thing about the book was how sex-positive both characters were. Blaze was unapologetically promiscuous AND a well-known attention seeker, and even though Maisey was a quiet, prudish character, she was highly adventurous behind closed doors. You could see the conflict between them coming a mile away but I did like the issues that were raised as they each worked through their differences. It was an entertaining and sexy read with just the right amount of sweetness.

I requested all books in this series, and I am sad to report, I didn't really like any of them. There was something off for me, and I can not put my finger on it. The writing was not really my favorite. I couldn't get into any of the books at all.

A story about a girl who wants to make it work career wise and be a success but also is battling with her sexuality ..

its a typical story about two people clearly into eachother but are still not wholly comfortable because of their own personal feelings and sexual orientations..they want stuff but are also scared that it would get in the way.

Reading the summary of this book is the best way you will get to know better the two protagonists. The fast-track American skater, Blaze, with her careless way of seeing her life including her sexuality and the Canadian figure skater, Maisy, repressed by her family and her education, but uninhibited in her sexual relations.

Once you start reading, the story becomes a succession of sexual encounters, some more imaginative than others, but generally quite interesting.

Until the middle of the book, the dialogues are scarce and little relevant, predominating the sensations that are explained to us by the two protagonists in an alternative way, since the story is explained in the first person, by the two main characters.

But from half of the book towards the end, the story stops being a basically erotic one to become a more traditional romance, with the intervention of other characters, although not many more. Then also appear moments of the sport competition, a little forgotten in the first part of the book.

In summary, this book has been more interesting than at first I thought it would be.

When I saw there was a traditionally published F/F book coming out I instantly jumped on it. This is a genre that does not have enough books out there so I was excited to read it. Sadly, for me, the book didn't keep me at that excitement level.

There was just way too much sex in this book, which is not something I would normally complain about but in this book it seemed like there was nothing but sex. And for me those scenes were very robotic and I didn't enjoy them very much.

There really wasn't enough of a story to keep my attention. I wanted to get to know the characters more than I did, especially Maisy since we got little hints of her life outside of the bedroom yet never any more than that. I just never felt like I actually knew these characters and it made seeing them as a couple hard.

Overall, I think I'll still give this author another try since I did like the premise of this story and it had some good parts. Even though this wasn't a winner for me I would still recommend it for anyone that's looking for a fast F/F story.

Fire on the Ice as a title is 100% truth in advertising---because this book is HOT and I enjoyed every minute of it. Blaze Bellamy is a speed skater and Maisy Harper is a figure skater. 4 years ago, they had a brief but intense affair at the SIGs, and they’ve both been waiting for another chance. Because they have a previously established sexual relationship, they jump right into it...and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that almost the whole first half of this book is their sexual exploits. Have I mentioned how hot this book is?

It’s interesting, because rather than sex building intimacy between Blaze and Maisy, their chemistry keeps them at arm’s length. Why bother talking about their feelings when they could be busy having orgasms? Maisy is introverted and prefers to keep her affairs quiet, while Blaze is 100% extroverted and very open about her sexuality (she identifies as poly) and her need for attention. I wasn’t sure that Tamsen Parker could make me believe that these two could make it work outside of the bedroom, but I found myself rooting for them, and the HEA feels satisfying while respecting both Maisy and Blaze’s needs and personalities. [Content warning: Maisy’s parents are controlling and homophobic, and that’s a well-explored part of her personality and character]

Blaze knew only one person saw her for who she really was. The person she kept private and not the flamboyant one portrayed in the press. Maisy Harper was not all she appeared to be. The quiet and reserved woman changed once the door as closed. Two sides that matched one another providing the support and rekindling a relationship that threatened to burn them up in flames. As they both try again at a relationship and winning a medal will it be enough to keep them together?

Fire on the Ice is very good and very different from a lot of other romances I've read, not just because it's f/f and there are seriously not enough of those. Blaze and Maisy had a really interesting and fun dynamic, and I definitely recommend giving this book a read.

Fire On the Ice is set at a Winter Olympics-ish sort of setting. People around the world are there to compete in the Snow and Ice Games. This brings in Maisy and Blaze. Blaze is a speed skater and has a reputation for being promiscuous, and is known for sleeping with men, women, and non-binary people. Maisy is a figure skater who is a lesbian but isn’t the most open about it to the public due to her parents, mostly her father, not being that supportive of her. They had slept together at the previous Snow and Ice games four years prior and end up sleeping together again after agreeing to strictly only sleeping together. Before sleeping together again they both had their minds on it and each other, Blaze mentioning she’d almost send emails to her.

I absolutely loved this book. The book starts off with a lot of sex scenes and if we’re being honest, I wanted to jump off a cliff because of them. They were so well done. They have an interesting dynamic as Blaze is polyamorous but Maisy isn’t, but that doesn’t prevent her from committing to her monogamously. I like how there was no shaming on either end and how they communicated a lot. They had a lot of comminication in general, whether it be when it came to sex or when it came to forming an actual relationship.

Some issues to arise. Maisy hasn’t dated in a while due to her parents disapproval of her being a lesbian and Blaze is known for her cover story scandals, which is hard to deliver when she is having sex with someone who wants to keep things between them private. I liked the opposites attract dynamic a lot. Maisy is more quiet while Blaze is known for her more out there personality. This brought out different aspects in both of them.

I also really like how Maisy acknowledged she held a lot of internalised misogyny that she had learnt growing up but made an effort to grow from there. While she did have a few slip ups, she always tried to do better from there.

I loved seeing their relationship progress and how they both adjusted in some ways and made compromises with each other, as being together would need that as they are such different people. I overall just adored this book.

I had never read a story about the romance between two women and while the story was well written and I love these themed stories I couldn’t really relate to the characters The way I wanted too.

I never thought I needed Olympic erotica in my life, clearly I didn’t know what I was missing. Tamsen Parker writes insanely hot sex of all kinds. Seriously ff mm mf, she does it all and she does it exquisitely. Maisy is a Canadian figure skater and Blaze is a speed skater and on the surface they could not be more different but when it comes to the bedroom, their tastes are insanely hot. The issue here is Maisy is monogamous whereas Blaze is poly, Maisy wants Blaze to be faithful to her at least for the duration of the games and they have the hottest most mind blowing and possibly the most graphic sapphic sex I have ever read in a romance novel. Will their relationship make it? Will they be able to get over their differences? Absolutely read this one guys, you won’t be sorry.

Thank to netgalley for the ARC