Sweet Obsession

De: Harmony West

Narrado por: Kat Auden, Walker Williams

Love Theoretically meets Lights Out in this swoony dark rom-com with a morally grey lead who wants to learn everything he can about the woman he’s obsessed with, but stalking her isn’t as easy as he anticipated.

Summer keeps her dark fantasies close to her chest—and between the pages of her favorite books. With a globetrotter mother and a traveling artist best friend, Summer seeks her adventures as a professional fake girlfriend, spending her days pretending to be anyone other than herself for a thrill and a lucrative paycheck.

Of course, being a professional fake girlfriend makes dating a bit . . . challenging. Especially when her new client is the same man who accidentally broke into her apartment—the same man she hasn’t been able to stop thinking about since. But if Noah knew the real Summer, if he knew her fantasies of being the object of a man’s obsession and unshakable devotion, she’s not sure he’d want any relationship with her—fake or not.

Noah didn’t mean to break into Summer’s home. In his drunken state, he mistook her apartment for his friend’s, but now that he’s met gorgeous, fiery Summer, he’s found the perfect candidate to convince his overbearing family that he’s over his recent breakup: a professional fake girlfriend. Except the more Noah gets to know Summer, the more his obsession grows. He wants to know everything about her, and based on the books on her shelf and her own drunken confession, she’s not against a little light stalking.

Unfortunately, from unsuccessfully hiding behind menus to mistakenly leaving his return address on gifts to getting caught peering through her window, Noah isn’t exactly nailing this whole stalking thing. And his messiness has obviously attracted the attention of the wrong person because things for Noah go very, very badly. As in, find-yourself-locked-in-the-trunk-of-a-car bad.

So maybe stalking isn’t quite as easy as he had hoped.

So good!

This is described as a swooney dark romcom - but I wouldn’t call it dark. It is funny with good banter. This is exactly the kind of ‘dark’ that I can do. It was fun with an accidental home intruder, faking dating, and kinky spice.

So many giggles

Not going to lie, this book was cheesy af. But, I loved the whole thing. It was corny and ridiculous in the best kind of way. I laughed at the cheesiness the entire book. And the twist at the end had me cracking up!

What a fun read.

loved to read the story of Noah and summer. it was refreshing reading a stalker rom com.

A very sweet love story!

I really enjoyed the chemistry between narrators, it made the characters very enjoyable.
I loved Noah's dorkiness that made him seem very authentic! I laughed out loud at many of his first attempts. Summer frustrated me at time, because Noah is VERY accepting of her and yet she felt like he wanted to change her. But overall she was a great character.
I loved that both characters are pretty much unapologetically themselves. While there is some character growth, it doesn't take away from the focus of the story. I love the secondary characters and hope there is a second book for them!! 5 stars!

If you loved Lights Out…

This is for you! I laughed so much throughout this book. I really enjoyed how it was more realistic when it came to the MMC trying to figure out how to be a stalker & all the things the FMC wanted. My only critique is that there were a few times when the male narrator was whispering so it was really hard to hear his lines. Other than that- they were great.
Spice rating is about a 3/5 🌶️