Devious Obsession by S. Massery

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“If you want to stay, you have to play the game…”

Steele O’Brien is everything I hate in hockey players.
He’s cocky, brooding, antagonistic.

I played his game, learned his secrets.
But that was before I found out he’s my new stepbrother.

Now we’re at college together, and I can’t escape him.
Or his demons.

It seems that, for him, the game isn’t over.
He says I’m his to play with. His to torment.
And he’s determined to not only get under my skin, but carve his name into it.

Devious Obsession

Steamy bully romance!

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

The Hero: Steele O’Brien – Steele is one of the best friends of Greyson from the first book in this series, they are on the Crown Point University hockey team together and are now seniors. He was shown as a pretty good guy and Violet (Grey’s girlfriend) knew that Steele has some darkness in him. Steele’s father got married on a whim weeks ago, he has no idea why and is a bit worried about it.

The heroine: Aspen Monroe – she is a transfer student and new junior at Crown Point University this year. She has recurring dreams where she wakes up in the middle of the night with someone on top of her and she likes it. She picked CPU for its arts program, though her family lives close by. Aspen isn’t an athlete; she is studious and plays the piano.

The Story: The athletes at CPU have a lot of parties. Eric, one of the guys on the hockey team, hosts a summer party and invites a bunch of his friends and girls to play a game about dark desires, with no restrictions. When Steele first sees Aspen, he is immediately intrigued, and he gets her as his partner in the game. The higher the card each person picks tell how deviant they want to be. The jokers mean anything goes and both Steele and Aspen choose a joker. They tell each other their darkest fantasies and enact them.

It isn’t until later that Steele and Aspen find out their parents are married. I usually like stepbrother/stepsister romance, but I have to say, that unless they are living together, I don’t really see much point. Though in this one, Steele doesn’t have a good relationship with his dad, which is one of the reasons he and Aspen hadn’t seen each other before. His dad offered to pay for Aspen to go to CPU if she would spy on Steele and give him updates on what he is doing.

I don’t know what kind of people that this school happens to produce, but Steele isn’t much different from Greyson in the first book, and like Violet, Aspen seems to like everything he does to her, since he gives her a safe word and rather than use it, she lets him do all sorts of terrible things to her and treat her like crap. Steele, like Greyson also doesn’t think anything of beating up other guys that may get too close to their girl or breaking bones on those same guys. Though I did like some of the background stories, especially the fact that Aspen’s uncle and father seem to be criminals.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Desireé Ketchum. Teddy Hamilton is one of my favorite male narrators. He has a great voice and sounds so natural when he speaks. Desireé Ketchum has a soft, feminine voice which was pleasant, but I don’t like the fact that you could tell she was reading.

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