Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto

27 reviews

graicez's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Violence

fr0gsonmushrooms's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

To keep it simple,
Logan is a delusional stalker who becomes obsessed with a girl named Delilah. She quiet and sweet and also reminds him of another girl he used to know. Delilah is struggling at home with her mom and her mom's abusive cop boyfriend.

Thats basically the first 50 pages. This book is over 300 pages though and a lot happens. It is face paced and I love that. There are a good amount of twist and turns, and even though some of them are predictable, a few made me gasp made me want to just keep reading.

I first got the book and pick it up, my first predication was that she was going to kill him. However, as I read I changed my prediction and though she was just going blame the drug ring on him and to send him to jail. Should have stuck with my gut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide

vale_likescheese's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The ending leaves you extremely shocked! I loved this book and It’s very interesting. I couldn’t put it down after a little bit of reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Death, Blood, Mental illness, Child abuse, Murder, and Drug use

Minor: Gaslighting, Murder, Death of parent, Stalking, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

av3ryriskygamble_'s review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Domestic abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Gaslighting, and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism

marenm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Child abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

mchramu's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

this book was so good?? such a fun read with a very interesting plotline. i loved reading the different perspectives. logan was definitely super creepy but delilah isn't technically a good person either so um.. very mixed feelings about the characters but overall it's a good read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

meeklovestoread's review

dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I'm not gonna lie I read this book because someone said it was giving "YOU" vibes and that sold me. I love that show. And after reading this they're right. It's "YOU", but make it YA and in high school. 

It follows two POVs: Delilah and Logan. 

I would like to note that I read this as an audiobook at 2-2.10x speed and that really made the book a breeze to read. It indirectly set the mood for the whole thriller vibe that the author was going for. And it made for a quick read. 

Reading both Logan and Delilah's POVs were great, but I'm gonna be straight with you I was pretty bored with the story until

she found out that he was stalking her. Then the story really started to move along. And we really got to see Delilah gradually start to grow deranged after her first kill. And start to see her grow more cynical with each thing she learned. And I also liked how realisti  her constant panicking was. And the whole prey v. predators aspect the author had going on. I do wish she could've been smarter in terms of digging dirt up on Logan though.

I really enjoyed that part. It was nice seeing how Logan and Delilah were secretly plotting against one another. Although it was rushed I found the last few remaining chapters pretty satisfying.

Critics: I kinda wished we got more of Logan's homelife. We never really delved into his backstory or only got bits and pieces into Logan's fixation with Sophie. I'm curious as to what lead him to such thought processes. Of cours considering this is a young adult novel I don't expect it to be too intricate, but it would've been nice if we also got to know more of the characters too. Speaking of, it kinda annoyed how useless Logan's supposed best friend was. I felt like he could've planned a bigger role. And the way Delilah found out about Logan's antics and just her own secret about the

her being the one dealing drugs at the school

was very anticlimactic. It's a decent novel though. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Murder, Addiction, and Death

Minor: Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

unknownfigure's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent

taylorsevalia's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

For most of the book, I was expecting to learn more about Sophie. Although Sophie still feels like a mystery to me, Delilah’s story made up for it. I really enjoyed Delilah’s character besides the parts in library, but then, the ending had me wanting more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Murder, and Cursing

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, and Addiction

Minor: Eating disorder, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

content warning for child death towards the end of the book

goofy_gabrielle's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Murder, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail