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Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m going to need a real minute to formulate some thoughts on this one. But like my heart is feeling all the fucking feels. 

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Yes

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ali does it again! Loved the swim/dive backdrop, the (generally) good communication between our main pairing, the positive portrayal of therapy, and of course, the chemistry between S and L.

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lighthearted reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If you are looking for a nice lightheaded book with spice this is it. I loved the MMC and I believe there is a nice deeper meaning behind the story. This book is simple and yet kind of entertaining, but far from captivating. I am not the biggest fan of contemporary sport romance rather a big fantasy lover, but sometimes I do like to switch genres for variety. Although one thing I  thought was kind of annoying was that the main characters always referred to how much they are into kinky stuff and yet the spice was in my opinion not kinky at all. There was just one scene at the end of the book which referred to be a little more kinky but still only on the surface. But I guess this is a subjective opinion. 
As I myself am not into heavy kinky stuff, I enjoyed this level referred in the book.

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

Might be a little unfair of me to only give it 3.25 stars. It was too spicy/explicit for me. I didn’t enjoy those bits, but maybe I should’ve done a little more research about the book before picking it up. My first Ali Hazelwood book and overall did enjoy her writing style - just don’t love the sex scenes. Not my thing. 
Was an interesting read though. I liked reading about their thoughts, lives, NCAA, diving/swimming, relationships, all of that.
Penn was incredibly annoying though. I wish that all got resolved a bit earlier in the book.

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

Oh my god this book was so good! Ali Hazelwood always does her research and her reads always feel scholarly without being snooty (and they’re always fun 😉) the sprayed edges really made me feel like I was in the pool with the main characters! This book touches on so many great topics: mental health, STEM careers, swimming and diving (I had to google a bit) found family, healthy interpersonal relationships both physically and emotionally. It’s all there. I took my time with this one because it really is Ali’s best work to date (and I loved Bride and her other books). Definitely will be rereading this one. 

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