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A review by idkaudrey
Brutal Obsession by S. Massery
1.0
DNF @ 70% because I felt like I was going insane.
So the way our main characters are connected is this - Greyson is driving recklessly for an adrenaline boost late one night and rams into Violet’s car at 100 MPH. Greyson is uninjured but Violet (a career ballerina) needs extensive surgery on her leg and is told that she will never dance again.
That’s where we START.
The author’s note tells us that Greyson says “I don’t grovel. Ever.” but I’ll be honest I expected Violet to be at least a LITTLE angry??
How is it that she never ONCE past their FIRST interaction blames him for her accident? He is quite literally the sole reason all of her hopes and dreams have been ground to dust, and on top of that he released revenge porn of her, blackmailed her into giving someone else a blowjob, and goes out of his way to publicly humiliate her at any opportunity. Does Violet ever once stick up for herself, give him any shit at all, literally even express anger or frustration? Nope!
I guess his dick is fucking magic because every conflict amounts to: Violet ignores Greyson for as long as he lets her, dubcon sex scene. That’s it. There is literally nothing else that convinces Violet to not hate this guy’s guts. He just fucks her and she seems to forget everything he’s done. I felt like I was being gaslit by this book
Greyson and Violet could’ve been fun but EVERY interaction I just could not understand why she wasn’t going fucking insane near this guy. I mean she just literally does not care that he is the reason her life has fallen to pieces. And he does EVERYTHING to make her angry. At a certain point it just got fucking weird, he keeps doing all the terrible stuff to her but you as the reader are just left confused as to why this shit is still happening because the author has proven time and time again that Violet isn’t actually gonna be pissed past maybe a paragraph. Why should I give a shit what he’s doing to her when I know she’ll spread her legs for him no matter what?
Forced into giving a stranger a blowjob? She’s buddy-buddy with the stranger the next day and doesn’t even care that this is literal sexual assault, and she never brings it up to Greyson. He dumps beer on her in front of his entire hockey team and half the dance team? She seems to forget it happened as soon as the scene ends. Him running what is essentially a smear campaign with his PR agent that causes her to face intense isolation from all her peers? She doesn’t even think to blame him for that, for some reason.
My breaking point was when he offered to pay for the therapy to fix her leg and she said “I don’t want to take advantage of you like that.” HE BROKE YOUR FUCKING LEG AND YOU LITERALLY LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS ISNT BY DEFINITION THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.
I can't. Violet is pathetic and annoying and Greyson is a silver spoon nepo baby who needs to get his ass beat
So the way our main characters are connected is this - Greyson is driving recklessly for an adrenaline boost late one night and rams into Violet’s car at 100 MPH. Greyson is uninjured but Violet (a career ballerina) needs extensive surgery on her leg and is told that she will never dance again.
That’s where we START.
The author’s note tells us that Greyson says “I don’t grovel. Ever.” but I’ll be honest I expected Violet to be at least a LITTLE angry??
How is it that she never ONCE past their FIRST interaction blames him for her accident? He is quite literally the sole reason all of her hopes and dreams have been ground to dust, and on top of that he released revenge porn of her, blackmailed her into giving someone else a blowjob, and goes out of his way to publicly humiliate her at any opportunity. Does Violet ever once stick up for herself, give him any shit at all, literally even express anger or frustration? Nope!
I guess his dick is fucking magic because every conflict amounts to: Violet ignores Greyson for as long as he lets her, dubcon sex scene. That’s it. There is literally nothing else that convinces Violet to not hate this guy’s guts. He just fucks her and she seems to forget everything he’s done. I felt like I was being gaslit by this book
Greyson and Violet could’ve been fun but EVERY interaction I just could not understand why she wasn’t going fucking insane near this guy. I mean she just literally does not care that he is the reason her life has fallen to pieces. And he does EVERYTHING to make her angry. At a certain point it just got fucking weird, he keeps doing all the terrible stuff to her but you as the reader are just left confused as to why this shit is still happening because the author has proven time and time again that Violet isn’t actually gonna be pissed past maybe a paragraph. Why should I give a shit what he’s doing to her when I know she’ll spread her legs for him no matter what?
Forced into giving a stranger a blowjob? She’s buddy-buddy with the stranger the next day and doesn’t even care that this is literal sexual assault, and she never brings it up to Greyson. He dumps beer on her in front of his entire hockey team and half the dance team? She seems to forget it happened as soon as the scene ends. Him running what is essentially a smear campaign with his PR agent that causes her to face intense isolation from all her peers? She doesn’t even think to blame him for that, for some reason.
My breaking point was when he offered to pay for the therapy to fix her leg and she said “I don’t want to take advantage of you like that.” HE BROKE YOUR FUCKING LEG AND YOU LITERALLY LIVE IN CONSTANT PAIN WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS ISNT BY DEFINITION THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.
I can't. Violet is pathetic and annoying and Greyson is a silver spoon nepo baby who needs to get his ass beat