The Obsession

This book is really keeping me hooked, as a person who is just trying to inculcate the habit of reading this book has been really good for that as it has simple descriptions which doesn’t has any fancy words but still give you a detail idea of the whole scene and almost gives you an almost screen type of experience. Would rate it a sold 8.5/10

Good

The price of the book is very expensive I can not buy it strictly please reduce the price of the book so that I can buy it

Tolles Buch

Wow, can't believe the ending. Certainly, didn't expect that. Does anyone know if there is a 2nd book? I feel, it ended quickly, and left a lot of unanswered questions, for me personally, it had a lot of unfinished endings, I know some would say it was perfect it was, but I loved it and wanted to know more about the female character and what happened to her after, the jaw dropping twist. Fantastic book. Would highly recommend.

I grabbed the book and could not stop to each turn, my widen and my mouth open a few times, you get yourself almost liking the obviously crazy person and try to get a hold of yourself telling yourself no! Wild ride this one.

See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was an eARC I got as a reviewer for YA Books Central. I was guaranteed to love The Obsession. The premise is the kind of lovely twisted thing I’ve spent years asking for, so short of something like bigotry, ugly prose, or the book ending with Delilah forgiving Logan and moving forward with him as her forever guy, of course this would be a hit for me. When I was a teenager, I even started writing a surrealist YA novel to the same effect. There’s no way what I wrote then could compare to this book. The Obsession is just so, so good. There’s an often cited statistic that 40% of police officer families experience domestic abuse, but the numbers vary and that statistic comes from two studies done in the early 90s. Even so, it’s generally understood cops are more likely to abuse their partners and children than someone from the general populace. Our heroine Delilah Wong lives under the thumb of her mom’s boyfriend Brandon, an abusive cop who has taken control of her mom’s finances and done unspeakable things. It’s not a surprise that she snaps one day and kicks the jack out from under the car he was working on. It should be easy enough to play off a man crushed under a car as an accident. Except a boy named Logan started stalking her a short time before and has video proving the death was no accident. He’s obsessed with her after deciding half-Singaporean Delilah’s resemblance to his deceased, Japanese American crush Sophie is a sign from fate that Delilah is meant to be his. (I guess they all look alike to someone like him.) If she won’t be with him of her own free will, he’ll just take that video to the cops. Anything is worth it to keep Delilah with him. But Delilah is never going to be under any entitled guy’s thumb ever again–and that’s where the twisted goodness starts. The Obsession really nails its tagline: boy meets girl, boy stalks girl, girl gets revenge. It alternates between Logan’s and Delilah’s unique perspectives, which amps up the tension of a novel that will already have you tensed up like you’re in the dentist’s chair getting a filling. The only issue I have with The Obsession is Delilah’s attempt to armchair diagnose Logan via Google. Self-diagnosing with the Internet’s help generally isn’t that bad. I’ve done it myself a few times and been both right (my autism diagnosis) and wrong (thought I had eczema on my arms, turns out it’s tinea versicolor). You just don’t try to diagnose other people. Leave that to actual medical professionals like psychiatrists. The attempt to pin Logan’s behavior on a mental illness doesn’t sit right with me either. Some people are perfectly awful without being mentally ill. See: Brandon. The ending is everything I wanted from this novel and then some. Then I realized Sutanto wrote a second novel set at the same school, The New Girl. Though it doesn’t star a stalker and his vicious prey, I think I need that book now. Plus the jacket copy mentions the new main character sees a girl arrested on her first day and I really need to know if that girl is Delilah. I hope not. Tired of romanticized stalking and ready for an anti-heroine? Pick up The Obsession and enjoy.

Arrived fast and in good condition. This book was good! I enjoyed it, and the plot and characters were interesting; it was developed well, and I was hooked. However, the writing did feel a bit boring and as if no effort had been put in at some points. I also didn't think there was enough depth, as the story felt quite shallow and stupid in some parts - almost as if the book itself lacked some common sense.