REVIEW: Deep End (Ali Hazelwood)
Book: Deep End Author: Ali Hazelwood Premise: Scarlett Vandermeer has no time for relationships. On the surface, she has nothing in common with Lukas Blomqvist. Until a well-guarded secret slips out and everything changes. When staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water. This book is essentially a friends with benefits to lovers plot, centered around two aquatic athletes at Stanford. Scarlett is an overachiever who's too hard on herself, Lukas is the golden boy in swimming who is out of her league. The romance is sweet and I loved the character development with Scarlett. Not really a spoiler, but the whole plot hinges around the fact they're both into kinky sex. So there are a good number of such scenes, starting quite early on in the book. The content wasn't shocking, but it was very cringy and some of the language I wasn't comfortable with. Personally, I'd rather more of the roman...
