The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Category – YA Mystery Thriller
- Length – 320 Pages
- Read Time – 4 Days
- GR Rating – 3 Stars
I truly don’t want to spoil anything in this book because the story went so far that spoiling any of it just feels like a disservice to the over-the-topness of the book. I genuinely had to remind myself oh wait these are 17 year olds because the story felt like a story written for adults & given to teenaged characters to excuse the questionable judgments.
This story revolves around Logan & Delilah, 17 year olds attending an expensive boarding school in California. Logan, I don’t even know what to say without saying it absolutely all, just wow okay. My eyebrows progressively shot up higher & higher as the story continued to unfold. I will say this, without giving detail away, if you’ve read the You series by Caroline Kepnes or seen the Netflix series based on her books you’ll recognize Joe Goldberg aka Logan in this story. Yes, that absolutely gives the book away without giving the entire story away, spoiler maybe-ish but not 100%! Crazy, deranged *Martin Lawrence voice*
Then there’s Delilah… again I struggle with what to say without saying too much. Delilah’s character arc felt rushed, the entire time-line felt rushed, everything transpiring within a years time frame. Within a few months really which considering how the book ends that’s quite the fast track. I guess you could say spirals, especially when said spirals are going downhill\out of control, can happen fast but the lack of “time stamps” marking significant events just made the story feel rushed. The few mentions of time frames for & between events threw me off while reading because they always seemed either too long or too short of time spans.
Logan “meets” Delilah while she’s mourning her father & living with her mothers abusive cop boyfriend. She is hurting from the void her fathers death has left in their family, in her life & traumatized from living with Detective Brandon, her mothers abusive boyfriend. Logan instantly “falls in love” with Delilah the moment he 1st catches sight of her & decides he has to “protect her from the world”. The assumption gathered from the story is that Delilah was a vibrant out-going smart girl until her fathers death & Detective Brandon being in her life. This is when Logan meets her, a broken sad girl, he perceives to be in need of protecting, much like Sophie. However by the end of the book she’s anything but a timid girl in need of a savior.
Sophie, although we don’t get much of any information or time in the book for her she is central to story as well. Sophie was Logan’s previous ‘love of his life’, she died & he spiraled. The book begins after his spiral & although small things are mentioned here & there, what happened to/with Sophie is mostly up to assumptions of the reader.
& because I want to really get into it but I don’t give the entire book away I’m just going to end this review the same way the book ended, very abruptly.
- Have you read this book?
- What was your favorite part? (The garage scene *sorry not sorry*)
- What was your least favorite part? (The ending – so she’s just… okay..)
- How many stars do you rate this book?
Hasta la prĂłxima – V
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