Driving My Obsession by Lauren Biel

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Driving my Obsession is a DARK GRAY hitchhiker romance in DUET NARRATION. All of the Ride or Die romances are STANDALONE and can be listened to in any order!

I’ve been branded a monster, but some scars run deeper than the eye can see…

All it took was one ride, and I was obsessed. Now, every day I watch. Waiting. My obsession’s oblivious to my machinations. She doesn’t know that my life’s been fueled by anger and vengeance. Until today.

My fixation takes a twisted turn when Oaklyn needs to hitch another ride. How unfortunate she doesn’t know this could be her last ride—ever.

Yet the more I know, the more torn I am. She’s different from them but not nearly enough. I cannot ignore how my ire rises with each layer she strips away. So why is her pain a balm to my tortured mind? Her tragedy is a siren’s call to my dark, wicked soul.

At the end of the road, will Oaklyn meet her protector or will she meet her demise?

Driving My Obsession

Dark and twisty!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😚☹️😭
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Oaklyn – she is a former ballet dancer who had dreams of broadway when she was in a terrible car accident that ended her ballet career. All she ever wanted to do was dance, so after she recuperated, she got a job at sleazy strip club. She loves to dance but works there because she needs the money. She lives in a trailer park in a trailer her grandmother left her. Her parents had disowned her when she went to New York to follow her dreams. Her boss Jake is interested in her and lets it be known.

The Hero: Ambrose – he fights in underground bare-knuckle boxing fights, and he cons money out of people. He is scarred from his childhood, both on the outside and inside. He has a lot of anger and wants to take it out on a stripper from the same club where his mother worked. He wants to punish his mother, but he can’t so he plans on punishing another one of the whore’s who work there.

The Story: Oaklyn is trying to save up to buy a car, and she has no choice but to work at the club. She takes the bus to work and doesn’t like to spend her hard-earned money on Uber rides, but Jake wants sexual favors for giving her a ride home. So, she hitchhikes home one day and Ambrose picks her up, planning to kill her, but for some reason he can’t. He tells himself if she ever gets in his Jeep again, he will do it but the next time he changes his mind and instead decides to stalk her and scare her in another way. Though he keeps giving her rides home.

This was definitely twisted. Ambrose did some terrible things to Oaklyn, and he was definitely not all there. He considered her a whore and treats her as such. He even sees her being raped, and though he stops it, he figures she deserved it because of what she does. Later, he rapes her as well. I liked the first two books in this series even though they were very dark, but I didn’t know how this one was going to redeem itself and it really never did. The Hero wasn’t even an anti-Hero, he was a villain. Though of course the heroine found herself attracted to him and into the same kinks as him.

I am a bit biased, since I am not a ginger, but it always bothers me how many redheads appear as the heroine in romance novels. Redheads are like 2% of the population, but they must make up at least 50% of the population of romantic heroines. Another thing that really bothers me is when the sexy man on the cover of a book doesn’t match his description in the book. Ambrose was described as huge, muscular and having dark blond hair that is shaved on the sides, with scars on his face. While the cover model looks to be a thin guy with dark black hair that isn’t shaved on the sides and without any scars.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Troy Duran and Lark Holloway. They do a terrific job, and I really like both of them. Troy Duran has the perfect deep voice for the character of Ambrose. He is just great at dirty talk. Lark Holloway has a youthful sounding voice and it sounds like she is in her twenties like the character of Oaklyn. Plus, I love the fact that this was done in duet narration.

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