Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

268 reviews

liren's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse

rhamerin's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief

Minor: Medical content, Alcohol

notnaomie's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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My first book I read by this author and I liked it. The book itself with the sprayed edges to resemble pool water is very unique. Overall, a great read.

I'm happy that Scarlett and Luk ended up being together despite Scarlett's uncertainty. The epilogue was a nice touch and I'm glad they achieved their dreams outside of the pool!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Death of parent

friedamariao's review against another edition

4.5

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting

grace_b_3's review against another edition

2.5

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I liked both Scarlett and Lukas. I enjoyed their individual arcs. 
Where this book falters is the side characters. The stuff with

Pen was honestly so irritating.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent

miakoda_exe's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

the_queen_of_york's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

4.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A welcome step outside my comfort zone, Deep End gave me a new appreciation for both diving and kink!  Scarlet and Lukas are set up together when it’s discovered that they have complementary kinks.  Both pre-med student athletes at Stanford, Scarlett is a diver who hasn’t been able to get over a mental block despite healing physically from a big injury, and Lukas is a swimmer from Sweden with a long history of winning.  Although their initial agreement is purely sexual, Scarlett and Lukas help each other trust and let go of control in the deep end of both the bedroom and their lives.  The kink is mild, the sex is hot, the story is lovely, and the narration?  Exquisite.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

hanika's review against another edition

2.25

emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content

boundt0please's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Rating for the narrators—Thérèse Plummer and Ben Holtzmuller—and the narrators alone.

While the description of Deep End sounded promising, I did NOT like Lukas.

He gave me the fucking ick 🤢

And that scene where Scarlett was avoiding him or something ??? and he showed up and they fucked—UGH, hated it.

That scene also terrified me.

Spoke about it with book club and I'm just going to leave it there.

Sorry y'all, I wouldn't recommend Deep End.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

Minor: Domestic abuse