Secret Obsession by S. Massery

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hockey goalies are known to be obsessive—but none more so than my ex’s brother.

I just didn’t expect to be on the receiving end of his dark possessive streak.

After a mortifying public break up with his older brother and teammate, Miles Whiteshaw declares me as his. That I’ve always been his, minus my year-long lapse in judgment.

The only problem? I’ve sworn off of two things:
Whiteshaw boys and love.

But Miles will go to any length to prove that we belong together—and I’m not sure we’ll survive the fall out if he’s wrong.

Secret Obsession

Psychotic but good!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📔📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😄🙂🥰☺️
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Miles Whiteshaw – he has had feelings for Willow Reed since they met, but for the past year, his brother Knox has been dating her. Well, it wasn’t exactly dating. Knox made a bet with his friend Greyson, and he has been going all out to win the bet ever since. He thought it would be easy to get Willow to fall in love with him, but Miles knows that even though Willow has known she loved Knox for over six months, she hasn’t yet said it aloud till now.

The heroine: Willow Reed – she doesn’t say ‘I love you’ to anyone, that is why it has taken her so long to say it to Knox but the moment she does, he shatters her heart by revealing that the past year has been just a bet and nothing more. He is glad it is finally over, so he doesn’t have to pretend to be in a relationship with her anymore. She has cried over him so many times in the past, the way he looks at other girls when they are together, it took her so long to finally admit her feelings only to be humiliated in front of all their friends. She can’t believe that Miles didn’t tell her about the bet, she thought they were friends. She is done with the Whiteshaw brothers for good.

The Story: it’s been a month since Knox broke Wiillow’s heart and though she cried for a good week, it was more about the humiliation than about Knox himself. Since then, she has been going out to bars, dancing and seeing how many men will buy her drinks. Now that she is back at Crown Point University, she goes to a club that recently opened. She ends up in a precarious situation and Miles is there to help her out, though he uses it as a way to tie her to him in a way that she never could have predicted.

I swear the guys on the CPU hockey team get worse and worse as this series goes on. So far, they have done potentially illegal things to their women while chasing them, though the line is thin there since the women have been into the kink as much as the guys. But now Miles has taken that way further in his pursuit of Willow. I don’t really like the way he pursues her; in that he does his best to alienate her from most of her friends and any potential suitors. It reeks of his wanting to control her. Though it did hold my interest and these kinds of things are always a bit hotter in a book than in real life where it would definitely be something you would want to run from. I was married to a guy like that, and it wasn’t fun and getting away was not easy. Though I did like how miles remembers of how he first fell for Willow and fell further when his brother started dating her.

One thing I thought about this book and all the books so far in this series was that there were way too many intimate scenes. I like the slightly deviant sex scenes, but in all three books so far there were just too many. It seemed like every other chapter they were doing it and a lot of the time was in public places despite the fact that they were basically living together. I mean against a wall now and then, in a shower, and the like is fine, but I don’t see the need to do it in closets, bathrooms, ice arena’s and other public places. I know some people get off on that, but these guys seem to have all the kinks, not just the one. I think their other kinks are enough. I just don’t get the fear of getting caught in public as being an aphrodisiac.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Alyssa Avery. Teddy Hamilton, as always, is a terrific narrator. I love his voice and he is great at showing emotion through his voice and doing different voices for different characters. Alyssa Avery is good as well. She has a bit more of an alto voice for Willow and she goes higher for other characters. Though she isn’t annoying in the higher voice like some narrators.

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