The Maddest Obsession

Made, Book 2

By: Danielle Lori

Narrated by: Matt Haynes, Vanessa Vasquez

She fears the dark. He rules it.

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.

Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade...no one anyway, until he comes along.

Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer; his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he’d envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he’s never been tempted to veer off course. But, perhaps, one should never say never....

One winter night and their lives intertwine. She hates him - his stone-cold demeanor, his arrogance and too-perceptive eye - but, over the years, even as their games consist of insulting each other’s looks and intelligence, she begins to live to play with him.

Nowhere in Christian’s plans had he ever prepared for Gianna. She’s chaos embodied, not his type, and married, but none of that can stop his eyes from following her wherever she goes.

All along, she doesn’t even know that she’s his - his frustration, his fascination. His maddest obsession.

©2019 Danielle Lori (P)2021 Danielle Lori

Great story... but the narration...

I really love this story and am looking forward to listening to book three in the series.

The female narrator did a wonderful job. When I read the book on my kindle, I assumed Gianna had more of an accent which would explain her getting the American sayings wrong. That would be the only thing I felt was lacking with Vanessa's performance.

The male narrator was not the right fit for this at all. I can't even say it's based on what I assumed when I read the book in ebook form. I'm saying it's not the right fit because the character is so cold and intense for most, if not all, of the book. The narrator sounded like the serial killer villain in a crime show.
In my mind, I couldn't stop seeing Kevin Spacey as the serial killer in Seven with Brad Pitt.
Christian was mean to be unsettling, a tad off putting so that when his story arc came full circle his idiosyncrasies became endearing. But the voice... was everything it shouldn't have been. He stayed in the "maybe he's a sociopath" column and that takes away from the HEA in the end.

Enemies to lovers got me swooning

I loved the characters and how they grew together helping each other to overcome the past and the hate turning to love

lovvveee

I don’t know what it is about russian men but they are superior at melting hearts. wonderful story of overcoming pain, scars, & abuse to find love …2 perfect people for one another. loved it!

Fantastic!

Great book! Loved the story. Ignore the reviews about the reader as he is exactly how this character would have spoken.

error with audio

in chapter six around 45 minutes 52 seconds, there is an error with the audio. the audio cuts to an audio sound but is sounds different than the male voice actor & a pshhh sound.