Brutal Obsession by S. Massery

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

He’s a hockey god…and she’s the one who got in his way.

I had a foolproof plan.

Finish college playing the best sport on earth. Hockey.

Get drafted by an NHL team.

Make my senator father at least a little proud of me.

I was on track to do just that…until Violet Reece and I collided. Literally.

Turns out, my plan didn’t account for a night in jail–and the news articles that followed it.

Everything fell apart after that.

New school, new hockey team. And a resentment like I’ve never felt before directed at the girl who set me off course.

Lucky for me, she attends this new school of mine.

And there are a thousand ways to ruin her.

Brutal Obsession is a sizzling, dark college bully romance. Our hero does not grovel under any circumstances.

Brutal Obsession

”Two parts charm, one part insanity and a powerful family name to boot.”



The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚🖤💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😊😄😘😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Greyson Devereux – he grew up with a father who acted like they were Kings, above all the rest of the commoners. His father is a senator, and they always did what they wanted, when they wanted and didn’t care what anyone else thought. Everybody knew who he was because of his last name. He is now the star of the Crown Point University hockey team and is the guy all the other guys want to be, and all the girls want. One-night while out with some girl, he gets into a bad accident with another car, though he and his date walked away without injury.

The heroine: Violet Reese – she was on the dance team at Crown Point University and dated a guy named Jack, who was on the football team, until she was injured in a terrible car accident and spent six months in the hospital. Her leg took the brunt of the accident and she had to relearn how to walk and did a lot of therapy to build up her muscles in her leg. Now that she has returned to school, she can no longer dance, and she doesn’t want to wear clothes that will show her injured leg.

The Story: Violet thinks something broke in her after her accident. She has nightmares about the accident. She was a classically trained ballet dancer and practiced over five hours a day. Though she loved it, she also really liked the dance team which was just a way for her to make friends. She was going places in ballet; she was on track to be a principal dancer. Though that dream was crushed along with her leg in that accident.

Violet returns to school after six months in the hospital and attends a party her first night back. She hears all about the newest hockey star on the team and when she comes face to face with him, she immediately knows that he is the one that ruined her life in that terrible accident. Greyson also knows immediately after hearing her name, that she is the one he hit in the crash. He is immediately attracted to her, but he sees her as the girl that choked his future.

Greyson was kicked out of his school when the news came out that he was arrested after the accident, his name and reputation were damaged by the fact that he had tried to get his date to say she was driving, and his relationship was his father was damaged as well. He blames Violet for everything that happened to him, since she was the one to tell the police that he was driving. Greyson is too arrogant to even realize how everything was really his doing, not hers. Even though Violet signed an NDA and dropped the charges.

Of course, it was easy to like Violet at the beginning and really hate Greyson. Not only did he injure her so badly, but he bullies her for something that he was the cause of. Talk about blaming the victim. His sense of entitlement was through the roof, and it was hard to feel anything for him even though he explained from the beginning that he was raised to feel that way by his father from a very young age. Though it turns out that Violet is a bit kinky as well. She ends up liking everything Greyson does to her, and she can’t turn away from him. These two are both crazy, they need to stay out of the news, and they keep doing things in public places, I just don’t get it.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Heather Firth. I really like Heather Firth’s voice; it sounds completely age appropriate for Violet and is pleasant to listen to. Teddy Hamilton is one of my favorite male narrators. I specifically pick books that are narrated by my favorite male narrators, because no matter how good the story is, a bad narrator can ruin it.

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