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In Deep (2014)

by Terra Elan McVoy(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Simon Pulse

review 1: This is a great swimming book. I love how the main character is faced with so many decisions and has to push through and keep swimming. I found this book very relatable, being a swimmer. I also liked how it had a twist of romance and drama mixed in with it. It's a great story that shows how someone's decisions can effect those around him or her, good or bad. While the main character definitely isn't a personal role model, she is extremely dedicated and devoted to swimming. This is something that I found very impressive, being a swimmer. But with this character being in a book, the story was more focused on the drama and romance that went on rather than the side story of the swimming that the character focuses on.
review 2: I’m going to be really honest... more - pretty much all of the characters in this book are just not likable people who spend a majority of the story doing bad things to each other. And many other reviewers have looked at this book and said that they couldn’t connect to the story because even the protagonist Brynn was tough to get on board with. I totally understand that, but for me that was what exactly made this book so compelling. Brynn’s ultra competitiveness made her interesting to me. She is deeply flawed and deserves some of the fallout she receives, but I thought the dark side of Brynn (making her more of a mean girl) rather than the exhausted shy-but-smart-but-a-little-awkward girl who gets the guy YA darling was refreshing. I will say I was not thrilled with the ending, and I sort of felt like Brynn’s decision at the end was a betrayal of her character. Also the idea that her obsessive competitiveness was inherited from her father with a gambling problem was just a little problematic for me. But overall I enjoyed this read despite its flaws, and am definitely on board to see more “nonlikable” characters in YA and stories that perhaps deviate from the moral norms we expect from books like this. less

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