A review by laraisabelle
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

1.0

This review will be nothing but a big ass dramatic, passive aggressive rant because I’m so fucking disappointed and sad

First off a positive thing: I adore Ali Hazelwood’s writing style and this book was no different. Based on her writing style alone this would’ve been an easy 5 star read.. I could not put this book down and I literally read this in 24 hours - of which 7 were spent sleeping and 9 were spent at uni so that should tell you how addicting this book was.
 It’s sadly just the plot that I fucking despised

 

Why did no one warn me that this book basically has a fucking love triangle???WHICH IS THE MAIN ROMANCE PLOT???? And not even the fun kind, where we get the fmc’s pov and she can’t choose NO it’s the mmc’s love triangle and that kind of made the book unbearable to me??? I don’t read romance FICTION to read this garbage?? What the fuck Ali

I don’t know how everyone else enjoyed the fact that this frustrating as fuck and there’s a third person in the way of the main character’s relationship the whole fucking time??? Like I just hated that Pen was such a big part of Scarlett and Lukas’ relationship? Can they have ONE conversation that doesn’t mention Pen????? It got so fucking old after a while. I kept reading because I held on to hope that this would get resolved and it’ll be something I’d have to get over but NOPE 

Also why add Scarlett going to therapy when it literally does nothing to help her and all she does is lie to her therapist? And the thing that helps her at the end is the mmc??

The thing I usually love about Ali Hazelwood’s books is that they make me SO giddy and they’re so fucking unrealistic, it’s amazing. They’re pure escapism. Like that’s the reason I read (romance) fiction. I’m sorry but this one made me MISERABLE 

This started out as a 5 star book and then it just went downhill continuously

I did like the spice but they nowhere near as kinky or spicy as I expected from the way Pen talks about Lukas’ preferences in the beginning (or the way booktok has been talking about this book). And I don’t think they actually do any of the stuff that they had the bdsm list for?

Yeah I just hate this book with every fibre of my being
I need to bleach my eyeballs and erase this book from my brain and act like it doesn’t exist please.