About the book
Deeper is a
new adult novel by Blue Ashcroft. The book was published on 31st
July and it is 226 pages long. I received an e-book for review through
NetGalley.
Synopsis
Rain Wilson
swore to herself that she would never love again after her boyfriend dies in a
water park accident. Although she can never forget what happened, Rain needs to
move on with her life and finds herself as a senior lifeguard in a new town and
at a new waterpark.
Rain
believes that she can get through the summer just fine as long as everyone
stays safe. But, before the season starts, she meets a mysterious guy in the
water and can’t stop thinking about it. It turns out that the guy is Knight
Mcallister, her co-supervisor.
Rain and
Knight both have pasts to hide and each’s problems begin to affect their
ability to do the job, let alone their attraction to one another. They must
learn to trust each other and push their pasts aside in order to carry on with
life and to do the job that they’re there to do!
What I thought
I can’t say
that I have ever read a book set in a water park before and that was partly
what attracted me to this one. I also wanted a summery read for while I was on
holiday in Orlando.
Deeper
begins with a prequel which explains how Rain and Knight met in the first
place. The prequel really sets the scene well and it gives glimpses of both of
the main characters. We learn that Rain has secrets, although not what they
are, and that her feelings towards the stranger she meets in the water are far
from normal for her.
When the
two characters meet properly for the first time, each is shocked to find out
they’ll actually be working together. Rain is only 19 and this is her first
time in a senior role as a lifeguard as a water park. Knight is concerned about
Rain’s age and how she will be able to cope with all of the hormone filled boys
around the park. Both characters quickly establish the fact that they have
something to fight for and reasons for being the way they are.
As plots
go, this one was pretty good. I really enjoyed the water park setting as
it was something different and exciting. The setting provided a whole host of
problems and situations that I hadn’t read about before. However, while the
book had a new setting to me, there were also aspects of the plot that I had
read about before. Blue Ashcroft manages to blend new and ‘done before’ really
well, giving the reader familiar situations while putting them in a new
setting.
Unfortunately
though, I didn’t exactly love Rain. She puts a lot of pressure on herself in
her new job due to events that happened previously. Many times throughout the
book, she refers to the boy that died as her boyfriend but he had only asked
her out on a date that day (although he had tried many times before). This was
the one and only time that she said yes to him and to me, that does not make
him her boyfriend. I could understand the pain she felt in regards to his death
but she made the guy out to be more to her than he actually was. Because of
this, she bugged me a bit throughout the book but she wasn’t all bad really.
Knight,
however, was wonderful. His pain was definitely justified after what he had
gone through. He is pretty tough a and hard on himself and feels that he could
have done more to stop what happened in the past. Whereas I didn’t like Rain
for how hard on herself she was, I could understand why Knight felt this way.
He was extremely protective of people around him and with good reason. Knight
is a caring and thoughtful guy and I really enjoyed getting to know him more.
Deeper was
a bit of a mixed bag for me but overall, I did like it. I would have liked it a
lot more if Rain had been a bit different though.
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