Review: The Maddest Obsession

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The Maddest Obsession The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

2.5 stars

I have bad news.

I found this book kinda boring. I stopped at three different sections, lamented my fate as I wonder why this book was so dull compared to the first book.

First of all, I need to point out that individually all these characters seemed great. I love Christian. He's the main attraction of this book. He's the one who made me want to pick up this book after finishing Oblivion. The charisma of this man is through the roof. Next, we have Gianna. I also love her character in Oblivion. She's this funky, deeply scarred and multifaceted character. I was curious about her past and how she became how she was in book 1.

However, as soon as I started the book, I noticed there were a few choices of writing that kind of slow this book down, and made it less desirable for me to read. I don't like the flash backs that took almost 30% of this book. Then, we were entertained by the hot and cold interaction between these two adults... and it dragged. I didn't start to like the story until we reach the point where they started to live next to each other. That part I like it. But after that, they sorta get into bed with each other and that's fine. Then we got to the part where I hate when books did it. It started to summarise all the fun, normalcy, interactions, and everything they did, leading up to the final conflict. Even the conflict wasn't even a big conflict. It kinda fizzled out. Eh, maybe it was just me. Also, a big part why I didn't enjoy this much compared to the first one, is I don't see the chemistry between these two people. *arrgghhhdonthitme* They barely spent time together, except for changing heated glances and witty quips. We hardly see Christian bared his feelings (he's stoic all the time) and Gianna didn't exactly resolve her issues on paper. I don't know, I'm just not satisfied with how it all ended. Even the ending was a copped out ending.

Yikes, I promise not to rant too much on this.

Anyway, obviously I'm the unpopular opinion here and I can see a lot of people enjoyed this more than me. So take it as you want to, but don't let me deter you away from this book. Maybe it'll work for you

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