📚 Book Review Template

Title: deep end 
Author: ali hazelwood
Series Name (if any): none 
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 (out of 5)
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📖 One-Sentence Summary:
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood is a steamy college sports romance about a Stanford diver recovering from injury who enters a no-strings relationship with a champion swimmer, only to find herself falling for him as their connection deepens.
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📝 My Review:
I really loved the writing style in this book—it's beautiful and easy to get into. The plot is interesting and kept me hooked more than the romance parts, which I found less engaging. However, the book feels very long, and at times it drags a bit, which made it hard to stay focused. Overall, it's a well-written story with a strong plot, but it could’ve been tighter in some places.
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💡 Tropes:
- friends to lovers
- grumpy sunshine
- No-Strings-Attached Arrangement
- Overcoming Trauma
- BDSM Elements
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📌 Quotes:
1. From the very start, you had all the power. From the very start, I was in the palm of your hand
2. “Sometimes, when she's in deep sleep, a thoughtful little frown furls on her brow. Lukas cannot physically get out of bed until he has smoothed it over with his lips. He used to want to prove to himself that he could thrive, even without her. He has given up on that. Now he just wants her.”