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Brutal Obsession
by S. Massery
I got so excited when I found a rec for a dark hockey romance. I love dark romance, and I love hockey romance. But most hockey romance books are more romcom style, so I was pumped for something different.
This book was not it. AT ALL. Honestly, I hate to trash books, I'm a firm believer in not all books are for everyone and it's not fair to yuck someone else's yum, but this book, I'm sorry it was just horrid.
First off it starts as a very intense bully romance. Our MMC basically drives drunk and hits our FMC. She was a ballerina training with hopes of becoming a prima ballerina. The crash ruins her leg and doctors state she'll never dance again. Our MMC's dad is a massive senator and buries the incident so his son avoids jail time or responsibility. They end up at the same college and our MMC wants to ruin the FMC for ruining his life. Uhm excuse me, she didn't ruin shit. He ruined her life and now he wants to punish her even though he has suffered basically no consequences?
And everything he does is straight abuse. He sexually assaults her, makes her give his friend a BJ, then blames her cause his friend liked it. He humiliates her over and over. And she just takes it. She never fights back, never seeks revenge. Just takes it. And then all of a sudden they're falling for each other. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
Our FMC has no backbone. No sense of self preservation of anything. And she basically is abused the entire book and then gets like Stockholm syndrome and is in love with the MMC. It's just obnoxious.
The MMC is a chauvinistic pig. He thinks abuse is love. But then like randomly 3/4 thru the book they're in love and in this romantic relationship. He never atones or takes responsibility for his actions or behaviors. And he never suffers any consequences.
Also there is mention and hints that our FMC has issues with food and has a history with eating disorders. And if alludes to the fact she is falling into those habits again when she starts retraining in ballet. Her best friend notices but no one does anything and the plot point kinda just falls away. I hated that. Eating disorders are not to be joked with and I really didn't like that it was alluded she had one and then like never resolved and no one helped her.
The book then does a massive change to like a stalker thriller towards the end? It's just confusing. And then of course it ends on this happily ever after where she becomes a famous ballerina and him an nhl hockey player.
I just, I didn't like it. I like dark romances. I'm not against taboo topics and have read bully romances before that I enjoyed. But this just wasn't it. It was just basically straight abuse, the MMC hates the FMC for literally no reason, that then all of a sudden changes to some romantic story. No character growth or development. I was disappointed.
This book was not it. AT ALL. Honestly, I hate to trash books, I'm a firm believer in not all books are for everyone and it's not fair to yuck someone else's yum, but this book, I'm sorry it was just horrid.
First off it starts as a very intense bully romance. Our MMC basically drives drunk and hits our FMC. She was a ballerina training with hopes of becoming a prima ballerina. The crash ruins her leg and doctors state she'll never dance again. Our MMC's dad is a massive senator and buries the incident so his son avoids jail time or responsibility. They end up at the same college and our MMC wants to ruin the FMC for ruining his life. Uhm excuse me, she didn't ruin shit. He ruined her life and now he wants to punish her even though he has suffered basically no consequences?
And everything he does is straight abuse. He sexually assaults her, makes her give his friend a BJ, then blames her cause his friend liked it. He humiliates her over and over. And she just takes it. She never fights back, never seeks revenge. Just takes it. And then all of a sudden they're falling for each other. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.
Our FMC has no backbone. No sense of self preservation of anything. And she basically is abused the entire book and then gets like Stockholm syndrome and is in love with the MMC. It's just obnoxious.
The MMC is a chauvinistic pig. He thinks abuse is love. But then like randomly 3/4 thru the book they're in love and in this romantic relationship. He never atones or takes responsibility for his actions or behaviors. And he never suffers any consequences.
Also there is mention and hints that our FMC has issues with food and has a history with eating disorders. And if alludes to the fact she is falling into those habits again when she starts retraining in ballet. Her best friend notices but no one does anything and the plot point kinda just falls away. I hated that. Eating disorders are not to be joked with and I really didn't like that it was alluded she had one and then like never resolved and no one helped her.
The book then does a massive change to like a stalker thriller towards the end? It's just confusing. And then of course it ends on this happily ever after where she becomes a famous ballerina and him an nhl hockey player.
I just, I didn't like it. I like dark romances. I'm not against taboo topics and have read bully romances before that I enjoyed. But this just wasn't it. It was just basically straight abuse, the MMC hates the FMC for literally no reason, that then all of a sudden changes to some romantic story. No character growth or development. I was disappointed.