Deep End

De: Ali Hazelwood

Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Ben Holtzmuller

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...

©2025 Ali Hazelwood (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Clever writing and story; male Swedish accent distracting 

Really enjoyed this book. Writing was great and story very entertaining. I have listened to many audiobooks
and know how much the narration can impact  how enjoyable the experience can be for the listener. So much so, I actually seek out certain narrators as I am sure many audiobook listeners do. In this case, I thought that the Swedish male accent was distracting. All other narration was phenomenal! Wish that the author would have taken a different direction with this character's voice. 

Great narration

Overall I really enjoyed this book. Healthy communication between the main characters in and out of the bedroom (or pool), healthy communication between friends. I love how smart both characters were, and how they bonded on many levels.

The male narrator, the tension

Finished it and then immediately started it over. One of my all time favorite audio books. Introduction to Ali Hazelwood, safe to say I’m a fan. Also the male narrator was 1000/10. Did all of the good things to my brain so thank you for that sir 😍🔥❤️

This book could have been 1/3rd shorter

Main character is infuriating at times, but as always the guy carries the story. Great narrators

If you like peak 2000s rom coms this is for you.

Loved it. Great narration and the details are *chefs kiss*. Worth the credit for sure.

Enjoyed!

Some times the Swedish accent would take me out of the story. The narrator did a great job but it’s hard to constantly make dirty talk sound sexy in that type of accent.

love it

This book had me laughing so many times. The writing is wonderful. Hope to see more like this from this Author.

OMG!!

Freaking loved every second of this book!!! The narrative was incredible!! The story! The smut! The character development is chefs kiss!!

Thank you for this book!

The performance was spot on. I love that Ali’s books’ male readers aren’t silly. There’s a realism to their performance that is missing from audiobooks by other authors. Thérèse is consistently top notch. Ali, as always, is witty, intelligent, inclusive, good at developing main and auxiliary characters with depth, and allows readers a glimpse into the world of dedicated people who put in the work for the success they seek. I hope there’s always a next book in the wings.

Best Work by Ali Hazelwood

This is my favorite book hands down by Ali Hazelwood. Definitely her spiciest book she has written as well. The story was beautifully written, I loved that both the main characters were athletes and pre-med students. Best friends ex- boyfriend is the premise of the story but not in a “other woman” kind of way. The best friend encourages the two of them to sleep together based on there kinks lol. Very spicy, great story, amazing banter. 5 stars 4 chilly peppers in spice.