Think twice if…
- Content warnings: PTSD, Panic attacks, Mental illness, Anxiety, Depression, Alcoholism, Abuse, Childhood trauma, Abandonment, Trauma, Substance abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content
Unsteady
by Peyton Corinne
Peyton Corinne writes mental health struggles with rare honesty - Rhys and Sadie are both drowning, and watching them learn to hold each other up without fixing each other is the kind of love story that sticks with you long after the last page.
Quick fit
Is this story right for you?
A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Story statusStandalone
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Friends to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- Cathartic release
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- Dark/tortured soul
- Grumpy sunshine
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- The angst delivered
- Golden retriever
- He falls first
- Rough / primal
- Book hangover
- Secretly soft
- Hurt/comfort
- Desperate / urgent
- Romantic fulfillment
- Warrior/fighter
- Only one who understands them
- Possessive / claiming
- Expanded empathy
- Found family
- Touch starvation
- Eye contact intensity
- Neck kisses / neck touching
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Jaw holding / face cupping
Fantasy promise
- Sports romance
- Academy / campus
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Forced proximity
- Sports world / training facility
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- Athlete romance
- College romance
- Healing romance
- Rescue romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Angsty
- Emotional
- Heavy
- General badass
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- Mental health rep
- Raw
- Artist/creative
- Anxiety rep
- Intense
- Immersive
- Survivor
- Depression rep
- Romantic
- Dramatic
- Caretaker
- Heartbreaking
- Earnest
- Cathartic
- Hopeful
- Ice rink tension
- Panic attacks on the ice
- Figuring out how to breathe again
- Found family among teammates
- Late-night rink sessions
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Different because
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Book details
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book