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Deep End
by Ali Hazelwood
Well, that was anticlimactic in so many ways. Social media overly hyped this book and it was just meh. My favourite thing about it was the cover. I was so excited to read about a swimmer and a diver and their journey and exploration of their kinky ways.
This was labeled as a spicy romance with “kink exploration” where it required a little warning page. Well I read the whole book and I’m still waiting for the spice and Kink exploration I was promised. This was at best a stepping stone from YA to spicy books. The sexual scenes were few and far between and pretty tame in my opinion. The most spicy part was reading off their lists.
There were so many mini storylines, I’m not even sure what the main plot was. There was a little of this, a little of that but nothing with pure substance. Loved the idea of two aquatic college athletes coming together. Loved the ambition and overcoming the mental block, but the entire plot fell short. The beginning had so much potential but it seemed like there was too many ideas that didn’t get their chance to shine. The epilogue? What in the heck was that? It was all over the place with random information. It was like a rushed school project and random thoughts tossed together to make the required page count. It hurt the story, not that there was much of one to begin with.
The characters? Middle school maturity at best. Pen basically throwing her boyfriend to Scarlett and then acting as if they never broke up? What a mess. Scarlett was so irritating. She was so labile I could not help eye rolling at every interaction she had with Lukas. Not that he was any better. He was just as annoying thinking he knew Scarlett the best and he could have her from herself. Come on. The two of them were so inconsistent with so many mixed signals, and yet suddenly they’re in love? Meanwhile 5 pages before they don’t communicate for days on end? I have so many questions.
The writing was frustrating. Very immature dialogue with some complex words thrown in here and there. Some parts made very little sense and I had to re-read. I’m all for banter between characters but so much of this book was stupid, filler banter that hardly contributed to the already poor story line. Not to mention this book dragged on endlessly. At 74%, I was ready for it to end but there was still another 100 pages of nothing. This was just a flight of ideas that didn’t quite get to their destination. Disappointed.
This was labeled as a spicy romance with “kink exploration” where it required a little warning page. Well I read the whole book and I’m still waiting for the spice and Kink exploration I was promised. This was at best a stepping stone from YA to spicy books. The sexual scenes were few and far between and pretty tame in my opinion. The most spicy part was reading off their lists.
There were so many mini storylines, I’m not even sure what the main plot was. There was a little of this, a little of that but nothing with pure substance. Loved the idea of two aquatic college athletes coming together. Loved the ambition and overcoming the mental block, but the entire plot fell short. The beginning had so much potential but it seemed like there was too many ideas that didn’t get their chance to shine. The epilogue? What in the heck was that? It was all over the place with random information. It was like a rushed school project and random thoughts tossed together to make the required page count. It hurt the story, not that there was much of one to begin with.
The characters? Middle school maturity at best. Pen basically throwing her boyfriend to Scarlett and then acting as if they never broke up? What a mess. Scarlett was so irritating. She was so labile I could not help eye rolling at every interaction she had with Lukas. Not that he was any better. He was just as annoying thinking he knew Scarlett the best and he could have her from herself. Come on. The two of them were so inconsistent with so many mixed signals, and yet suddenly they’re in love? Meanwhile 5 pages before they don’t communicate for days on end? I have so many questions.
The writing was frustrating. Very immature dialogue with some complex words thrown in here and there. Some parts made very little sense and I had to re-read. I’m all for banter between characters but so much of this book was stupid, filler banter that hardly contributed to the already poor story line. Not to mention this book dragged on endlessly. At 74%, I was ready for it to end but there was still another 100 pages of nothing. This was just a flight of ideas that didn’t quite get to their destination. Disappointed.