190. Water Bored: Deep End By Ali Hazelwood

Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves

Hold your nose and close your eyes - we're jumping feet first into DEEP END by ALI HAZELWOOD.

Scarlett Vandermeer attends real-life American University Stanford on a diving scholarship. Tall, blond, Swedish, heavily-siblinged (ring any bells?) Lukas Blomqvist (...sure) attends the same very real school and is swim team captain. Other common interests include attending medical school someday, working in the lab of a previous Hazelwood main character, BDSM, and Scarlett's only friend/Lukas's secret ex Penelope. Will these two ever be able to don the goggles of love and truly see one another through the stinging chlorine of circumstance?

Is real person fic as toxic as it is pervasive? Who are trigger warnings for and what do they actually do and are they as toxic as they are pervasive? For such a clean dive, how did this book manage such a big splash?

You can fear the tree all you want, but remember that it is Whoa!mance who will judge you.

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