• Obsessed

  • The Lizzy Gardner Series , Book 4
  • By: T. R. Ragan
  • Narrated by: Kate Rudd
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,543 ratings)

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Obsessed

By: T. R. Ragan
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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Desperate for better ratings, radio psychologist Madeline Blair tells her listeners she’s being stalked, unaware that her long-time listener and biggest fan, Seth Brown, will do anything to protect her. When her publicity stunt is revealed, Seth becomes enraged by her deceit and dangerously unhinged.

When her friends mysteriously begin to vanish and damning evidence points to Madeline, she turns to private investigator Lizzy Gardner for help. Lizzy knows her way around a murderer’s mind, after surviving her own horrifying ordeal at the hands of a serial killer years ago.

As Lizzy closes in, Seth Brown is undeterred. Madeline wanted a stalker and now she has one. Nothing is going to stop him. He’s obsessed.

©2014 T.R. Ragan. (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved

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Best in the series! GREAT CLIFFHANGER!!!!

Where does Obsessed rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This book was really good and would fall in the top half of my books as opposed to the bottom.

Which character – as performed by Kate Rudd – was your favorite?

I thought Kate Rudd did a fine job narrating. Although sometimes a little whiney, I can picture the character she is performing being the same.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

OMG the END! I will not say more.

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I think this was the best in the Lizzy Gardner series. Great plot, characters fleshed out, backgrounds filled in and a really twisted seriel killer who is OBSESSED. If you listened to the first 3 in the series and liked them, then there is no reason to even hesitate for a moment. This is certainly worth the $.

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Great thriller!!

T. R. Ragen's Lizzy Gardner series keeps getting better. It would be difficult to imagine a more evil villain than the one in this book. Abducted, the first of the series, was a mild disappointment, but others are much better. Kate Rudd's narration is stellar.

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Not for me!

Tried to get into this book but no luck. Dragged and was not believable. Too many characters that were BORING.

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Obsession overkill

This had too many story arcs with unhealthy obsessions and unlikely characters. And, there’s a certain formula which is getting old: namely men being horrible to women.

The main arc features a serial killer with a mental defect (just like the last book), who fixates on a narcissistic radio therapist. Once again, when Lizzy enters the picture, the killer focuses on her. You’d think we could have one book where the killer isn’t out to get Lizzy, and where Lizzy solves things by tracking down clues.

A subplot involves the ongoing, and ever downward spiral of Hayley, as she seeks revenge for a death from two years before. Once again, Hayley is the cranky bull in the china shop, burning all her bridges in single minded pursuit of a killer. There’s little to like in her character.

And yet again, the couples all feature male jerks who have affairs, abuse their kids, abandon their baby mamas. Not one healthy, lasting relationship in the series. Doesn’t bode well for engaged Lizzy, does it? Speaking of engagement, there’s barely any time spent on developing Lizzy and Jared’s love story. In fact, more time is spent on Lizzy’s terrible dad (yet another man-hating storyline).

This author’s obsession with men being awful to women lost all credibility when two pixies, Hayley and Kitali, confront a gang made up of all different races to uncover a name. Riiight. And the gang doesn’t send them packing. And the gang instead decides to abuse the girls… but first the guys divide up like dimwits in a horror movie. And when have you ever heard of a gang with white, black, and Asians?

It’s like the series exists to have tiny girls with no military or law enforcement training put the beat-down on scumbag men. I wish the focus remained on the mysteries. The main serial killer mystery was a bit much, but I enjoyed the two ordinary cases taken by Lizzy’s detective agency, about strange going’s on in one woman’s house and about a missing husband. I only finished the series because I got all the books at a stacked sale.

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I'm Obsessed with this series!

Radio personality psychiatrist, Madeline Blair's, ratings are slipping. In a desperate attempt to draw attention to her show, she has her audience believing that she is the target of a stalker. But one listener takes her seriously - he thinks he has to protect Maddy. When the listener finds out Maddy has been lying to her listeners, his focus changes from protecting to teaching her a lesson. He becomes obsessed in his relentless pursuit.

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A female thriller that goes slumming

I stopped listening after a few hours. I was attracted by the excellent plot line -- a radio show ditz decides saying she has a stalker will up her ratings, but this deceit enrages one of her unbalanced fans, and presto, now she really does have a stalker, a murderous one.

Unfortunately this is not a stand-alone novel, but No. 4 in a hate-men series in which the bulk of the female characters are abject failures. They all seem to have spent time in jail; one had her head shaved with one long dreadlock coming out the back like an oldtime Chinaman's pigtail. One is anorexic and rude and asocial but pretends to take care of the 4-year-old boy of some woman who she describes as "doing better," though she leaves him starving while she goes out prostituting and drugging, presumably. Not much care is on offer by Substitute Mom, as there is only food in apartment if some other friend brings it in. I can't understand why the author thinks I'd want to identify with these losers! Is their continuing failure supposed to make them "interesting," like the spate of women protags who drink like fish that we are treated to nowadays? Clue, authors: failed females are not interesting. They are just the refuse of society. Your characters don't read and people who do read are unlikely to want to identify with them.

I gave up when some of these types walk into a street gang and demand to get to kill one of the members who did a drive-by shooting (of a young girl, of course). That wasn't the improbable part: that was it being described as an "equal opportunity" street gang. They would be raped by a Korean, a black, and two white "gorillas." Now, the one thing anyone knows about street gangs (the city was not specified) is that they are rigidly segregated by race. Obviously the author decided that was just not politically correct and made up this fantasy gang that is carefully balanced for all possible population groups. This is unbelievably dumb and I stopped listening directly. There is also WAY too much back-story about all the other losers besides the main female private eye; this would have been far better as a stand-alone novel and leave all that out. I think most of these long, boring series novels would be better as stand-alones, especially if the authors are committed to undesirables as characters.

These novels are available free in both audiobook and ebook form if you are on the Amazon KindleUnlimited program for $10 a month. This is not a good sign as few are given away free in both formats. The KindleUnlimited stuff is usually pretty awful in any case, new and poor writers who aren't selling, so be warned.

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Gripping

I love reading and listening to these tales that T.R. Rage has so beautifully woven. Thank you for another thrill ride. Kate Rudd is amazing in her ability to really bring the characters to life with her voice!

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Could not complete

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

This is not something I can answer because I did not read it beyond the first chapter

What could T. R. Ragan have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Find someone else to narrate it.

What didn’t you like about Kate Rudd’s performance?

She made all the players sound like ditsy college kids, not like serious investigators

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

disappointment that I could not keep listening because if I did I would have just gotten too irritated

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The same stupid type of ending

I like the books but the same old ending from this author is getting old

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Kate is amazing

Kate could narrate the dictionary and it would be entertaining. the book was OK but she has too many storylines going on at the same time that have nothing to do with each other makes an adhd very distracted.

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