Because of this, I’ve split the book into two parts: the past and the present.

Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Fiel.The Maddest Obsessionspans seven years, from the time Gianna is twenty-one to twenty-eight.

In the Shadows of the Citadel by Meredith Hart.

Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsey.

The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese.

Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang.

May at the Peacock Ranch by Michele Machado.

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman.

Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer by Lola Faust.

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen.

Thanks to Annalice for reading this with me! I'll probably read more in the series and definitely more by this author, period, but I'm not quite as excited to meet Ronan as I was. but with way more ups and downs than the first one and I just didn't enjoy it the way I wanted. Since it was mentioned that she owned a Singer, I think she made a lot of them herself, which I thought was really cool. I also, again, loved all of Gianna's outfits. I also thought Christian had a truly dark backstory that was genuinely heart-wrenching. I will say that I appreciate the author writing heroines who are in control of their sexuality and the inclusion of colorful side characters (although TSO was better at this). I felt like Christian came off as controlling and stalkery like certain other Christians I could name. I didn't like how the couple seemed to revel in their latex allergy, despite the fact that both of them had been with other people. The scenes with the therapist felt way too similar to The Sopranos, like it was a cheap attempt to show us that Christian was deep. It's still leagues better than any mafia romance I've read but it didn't have the vivid, cinematic, larger-than-life element that drew me into the first book. Gianna's sarcasm started to get less witty and more childish and Christian just felt like a pale, washed-out imitation of Nico.

something went wrong and it took me forEVER to get through this book. I thought this would be just as amazing as the prequel.Īnd then. I loved her outfits and in the beginning, I loved her smart mouth and her attitude. She's basically like Harley Quinn if Harley Quinn were a mafia princess (so basically Margot Robbie a la Birds of Prey). And who is his love interest but Gianna, Nico's stepmother. Obviously that meant I couldn't wait to jump into the sequel, THE MADDEST OBSESSION, which is about Christian Allister, the dirty fed who's in deep with the Abellis. It was like watching a movie unfold in book form and I couldn't put it down. I normally hate mafia romances but after I finished TSO, I was thinking about Nico and Elena for days and how explosive their chemistry was, and how much I loved the action sequences and the show-not-tell elements of the story. I was obsessed with book one, THE SWEETEST OBLIVION.

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