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A review by thedailykaylee
Sweet Obsession by Callie Rose
5.0
5 obsessive and steamy stars
-RH
-series
-major cliffy
-steamyyyy
-single POV
-dark themes
I’m a huge Callie Rose fan so I had high expectations for this book, and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Y’all, what a start to this series.
As per usual, my review will have some small spoilers
First, let me say that I LOVED our main female lead, Ayla. She’s so tough on the outside, and will do absolutely anything to keep anyone from viewing her as weak. But she’s soft on the inside. She hurts. She gets her feelings hurt. She feels alone. She feels worthless. You ache for her, for the life she’s had to live. But even though she might be hurting on the inside, she’ll be damned if she lets anyone know.
Our guys are great. We have the usual one guy who is serious and obsessed with her, the one who seems happy go lucky and smooth as hell, and the broody one who seems to not want anything to do with her. Marcus is five alarm H O T and boy will he have you sweating. His absolute obsession with Ayla is madness, yet beautiful. I want my own Marcus, Jesus he can heat up the pages. He would do anything for her, but one thing he won’t do, is let her go. And I’m totally here for a possessive alpha male. Theo is smooth and calm personified. Ryland is broody and mysterious. We’ve only seen things get real serious with Marcus so far, and I’m excited to see things heat up with Theo and Ryland in the next book.
A little backstory: 2 and a half years ago, Ayla made the selfless decision to jump in front of a bullet to protect a man she didn’t even know. Present time, we have that same man and his sidekicks popping back up in her life and making her wonder if they ever even truly left her life, even if she didn’t know they were there. We watch her deal with PTSD, flashbacks, and panic attacks related to the incident. We watch her go from wanting these men to butt the hell out of her life… to not knowing what she would do without them, because they’ve somehow ended up as permanent fixtures in her life. We don’t know much about the guys and what they do for a living. We obviously know they’re involved in some shady shite and Ayla doesn’t ask too many questions. I thought it would bother me that she didn’t try to learn more about them, but Callie Rose wrote the storyline so flawlessly that it makes sense WHY Ayla didn’t want to know more. She didn’t want them to stay in her life, she wanted to go back to her life of solitude, so she didn’t want to know more than she needed to. But once she decided she needed them, all hell broke loose and at that point she knew she needed answers, and she got them.
I NEVER expected where this storyline was going. The whole idea of “The Game” was actually brilliant. Like with all RH novels, you have to suspend reality a little, but I found myself able to believe this storyline pretty easily.
As usual, Callie Rose’s character development is on point. You feel like you know these characters so well (minus Theo and Ryland at this point, but we will get to them in the next book). You can understand the actions of these characters because Callie puts you in their heads so well, which to me is hard to do since this is only in Aylas perspective. But she did it. And she did it well.
Warning, this book ends on a killer of cliffhanger, but THANKFULLY, this series is completed, so we don’t have to wait for the next book to find out what happens.
Do yourself a favor and READ THIS BOOK!!
*I did NOT receive an ARC for my review, nor do I know the author personally, I’m just a fan of her work after randomly coming across her Kings of Linwood academy series. If you haven’t read that one, what are you waiting for?! I read this book through Kindle Unlimited*
-RH
-series
-major cliffy
-steamyyyy
-single POV
-dark themes
I’m a huge Callie Rose fan so I had high expectations for this book, and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Y’all, what a start to this series.
As per usual, my review will have some small spoilers
First, let me say that I LOVED our main female lead, Ayla. She’s so tough on the outside, and will do absolutely anything to keep anyone from viewing her as weak. But she’s soft on the inside. She hurts. She gets her feelings hurt. She feels alone. She feels worthless. You ache for her, for the life she’s had to live. But even though she might be hurting on the inside, she’ll be damned if she lets anyone know.
Our guys are great. We have the usual one guy who is serious and obsessed with her, the one who seems happy go lucky and smooth as hell, and the broody one who seems to not want anything to do with her. Marcus is five alarm H O T and boy will he have you sweating. His absolute obsession with Ayla is madness, yet beautiful. I want my own Marcus, Jesus he can heat up the pages. He would do anything for her, but one thing he won’t do, is let her go. And I’m totally here for a possessive alpha male. Theo is smooth and calm personified. Ryland is broody and mysterious. We’ve only seen things get real serious with Marcus so far, and I’m excited to see things heat up with Theo and Ryland in the next book.
A little backstory: 2 and a half years ago, Ayla made the selfless decision to jump in front of a bullet to protect a man she didn’t even know. Present time, we have that same man and his sidekicks popping back up in her life and making her wonder if they ever even truly left her life, even if she didn’t know they were there. We watch her deal with PTSD, flashbacks, and panic attacks related to the incident. We watch her go from wanting these men to butt the hell out of her life… to not knowing what she would do without them, because they’ve somehow ended up as permanent fixtures in her life. We don’t know much about the guys and what they do for a living. We obviously know they’re involved in some shady shite and Ayla doesn’t ask too many questions. I thought it would bother me that she didn’t try to learn more about them, but Callie Rose wrote the storyline so flawlessly that it makes sense WHY Ayla didn’t want to know more. She didn’t want them to stay in her life, she wanted to go back to her life of solitude, so she didn’t want to know more than she needed to. But once she decided she needed them, all hell broke loose and at that point she knew she needed answers, and she got them.
I NEVER expected where this storyline was going. The whole idea of “The Game” was actually brilliant. Like with all RH novels, you have to suspend reality a little, but I found myself able to believe this storyline pretty easily.
As usual, Callie Rose’s character development is on point. You feel like you know these characters so well (minus Theo and Ryland at this point, but we will get to them in the next book). You can understand the actions of these characters because Callie puts you in their heads so well, which to me is hard to do since this is only in Aylas perspective. But she did it. And she did it well.
Warning, this book ends on a killer of cliffhanger, but THANKFULLY, this series is completed, so we don’t have to wait for the next book to find out what happens.
Do yourself a favor and READ THIS BOOK!!
*I did NOT receive an ARC for my review, nor do I know the author personally, I’m just a fan of her work after randomly coming across her Kings of Linwood academy series. If you haven’t read that one, what are you waiting for?! I read this book through Kindle Unlimited*