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Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

79 reviews

marleyjade123's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-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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pictwii's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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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mads_dan's review against another edition

4.0

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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lucyrudd's review against another edition

3.5

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nnewland7's review against another edition

3.75

funny hopeful 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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baileyisbooked's review against another edition

4.0

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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velmad's review against another edition

3.75

This was a good book.

What I didn't like:

Penn was too prevalent in this story, especially considering she didn't make a move for the MMC. She knew she was done with him she was panicking and acted like an arse.

For the two main characters to be elite athletes, they were very emotionally immature which usually isn't the case with highly driven athletes and pre-med students. Their emotional immaturity made them good for each other, though

I wanted their lists done together to discuss.

The weird addition of threesomes and bisexuality in the plot near the end. Why?

Troll? That is never a cute nickname nor a term of endearment in any language.

The long times in between communicating. It isn't the way that people communicate nowadays. These relationships would have been dead in the water in real life.

Side story of Penn's old rivals. The story wasn't about Penn. We never got clarification if Penn was a bad person or if she was in the wrong place and cried about abuse and wore the consequences.

What I did like:
The level of spice for a new BDSM couple. I imagine that their experiences would grow with experience.

I liked the chemistry between the two and when they were just a couple, I found them endearing, though they didn't know they were a couple yet.,

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tayreads10's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted tense 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

Scarlett and Pen. Pen and Lukas. Lukas and Scarlett. Extra drama as they're college aged and their time is torn between competitions for swimming and diving as well as college courses. Yes, super angsty. Yes, frustrating at times. Overall it kept me reading and I enjoyed the story. I was worried since I'm not in competitive swimming or diving there would be a lot of frustrating technical terms, but that wasn't the case at all. Good, very spicy book!

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