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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth O'Roark
4.0

Thoughts (spoilers):
I feel like this is a really good surface-level beach read. I actually liked this story more than I thought that I would. I thought that their Hawaii trip was so much fun. It felt like you were at the islands running around and going to the beach with them and it was a lot of fun. I thought the dynamics were well thought out with Six and Drew, Josh and Sloan, and then Beth and their Dad. It made me so sad that the Mom had cancer and she was making this her final trip. Six pissed me off for most of the book but I think that that was part of the point. Drew and Josh's relationship did feel like it started before the book did which I assume is in part due to the fact that this book is not the first in the series. I did think that their relationship was so good. She was this famous pop star who hated her life and was going through a hard time and he was a doctor that worked in Somalia. Part of the book took place after the trip and while I do wish more of it was in Hawaii it made sense that you needed to see what happened to them after the fact.