Title: The Obsession
Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Genre: Thriller/ Young Adult
Published: 2021
Description: Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes
sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her
through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a
stalker. Logan prefers to be called “romantic”.
But after Logan sees Delilah do something bad on the camera, he realizes
there’s still more about her to discover. His sweet, perfect Delilah isn’t so
perfect at all.
Delilah knows she should feel guilty for what she did, but all she feels
is free. Except Logan won’t let her forget what she did.
Review: We meet Logan, a popular high school boy, kind, athletic, friendly. But he can
also get obsessive. He had his eye on Sophie, he was in love with her, he loved
her more than anything. Sophie just didn’t return that love. When Sophie dies,
Logan continues to obsess over her. Until he meets Delilah, who looks a lot
like Sophie. Logan wants to know everything about Delilah. Because to him she
is perfect.
Delilah lives with her mother. After her father died, he mother remarried
a cop. A man who, at first sight, was going to be a loving husband and
stepfather for the two of them, turned out to be a controlling and abusive
brute. And Delilah and her mom are constantly undermined by him.
When Logan finds out about something that Delilah has done, he traps her
into a relationship with him.
Logan is your typical obsessive stalker. But he is so naïve and does not
see how terrible the things are he is doing. He is a creep. And Delilah learns
that very early on in the story. But Delilah is yet again being controlled by a
guy, after Logan sees her do something bad. At first, I understand why Delilah
goes along with Logan’s requests, because she doesn’t want the secret to get
out. But eventually I felt annoyed about everything. I couldn’t stand both
Delilah and Logan, for different reasons, but I just couldn’t put up with them.
That twist, of what Delilah does, early on the book, was quite
surprising. I was interested and felt like this was going to be a book filled
with twists and turns. But that never happened. There are twists and reveals,
but I didn’t really care for any of them. There is, for instance, this subplot
about this person supplying school kids with drugs, which they are investigating.
When this person is revealed it felt so ridiculous. Surprising, but so dumb.
And this investigation eventually becomes the main case for this detective, who
was on a much more serious case. But this case we somehow never hear off at one
point. It’s just dropped, when the detective did suspect certain things earlier
on in the story. This made no sense. And the ending was just very underwhelming, rushed and abrupt.
I did not like “The Obsession”. I considered DNF’ing a couple of times,
but because the ratings for the book were fairly high, I expected it to have
some great, surprise ending. I unfortunately never got that.
Rating: 2/ 5
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