Deep End

Deep End

By:

Ali Hazelwood

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
❌
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships—at least, that’s what she tells herself.

Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy, Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It’s how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus, with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.

So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...

Jamie’s review

I.ate.this.book.UP!!! I wanted an easy breezy romcom and Ali Hazelwood just delivers. I was obsessed with her book, Bride, it was a favorite of 2024. She just writes such great characters and throws in ALL the LOLs.

Scarlett is a collegiate diver. Lukas is a collegiate swimmer. They both go to Stanford, these are fun plot details that I surprisingly enjoyed learning about. #education #themoreyouknow

Warning: the spice is spicing! But the parts that are supposed to be outlandish are actually pretty tame. I don’t know, maybe I read too much smut. But it seemed tame to me.

I’M SAD THIS BOOK IS OVER.

Scarlett is a collegiate diver. Lukas is a collegiate swimmer. They both go to Stanford, these are fun plot details that I surprisingly enjoyed learning about. #education #themoreyouknow

Warning: the spice is spicing! But the parts that are supposed to be outlandish are actually pretty tame. I don’t know, maybe I read too much smut. But it seemed tame to me.

I’M SAD THIS BOOK IS OVER.

Erica’s review

I took a little Romantasy break with this one (which is rare for me) and really only did because it was our girl Ali Hazelwood! Jamie told me to drop everything, jump in, and read this quick little potato chip palate cleanser. Then I read it in 2 days. Once again she sucked me in immediately with the witty banter and I loved learning a little bit about competitive collegiate swimming along the way!

This was the perfect little balance of tension and a light dip into BDSM (very very light IMO – more talking about it than acting on it), but overall the spice was 👌. I really enjoyed how unique the characters were, and I rarely want to re-read a stand alone – especially a contemporary romance but I have a feeling this will get a re-read from me one day! Loved it!