A review by buttonsandbooks
Edge of Obsession by Megan Crane
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Well if this wasn't an interesting tale I wasn't expecting. Have you heard of Story Graph? It's an app similar to Goodreads, but it actually recommends books based on what you're looking for at the moment. I was looking for a fantasy like world with some heat and boy, did Edge of Obsession deliver on both of those accounts. 😂
The world as we know it is gone. It's been ravaged by flooding and technology, electricity, and internet is no longer. In this world, people do what they need to in order to survive. At least, that's what Helena is doing. She's surviving the current flood season in a little coven run by a tiny little Napoleon, who happens to have gotten her sister pregnant during their winter marriage. I'm this world, women are essentially currency and repopulating is gold. Helena has no use for a husband or a winter marriage, she wants to turn the lights on. She's sick of living in a world where arrogant men control things. Enter alpha male Tyr, a raider who's come to raid her coven. Tyr gets more than he bargains for with Helena, who does not cower in front of him. Rather, she mouths off and he takes her hostage. But is it being a hostage when secretly that's what she desired? Thrust into a new world of raiders, clan life, and extremely open sex, Helena adjusts and starts to figure out what it is she wants in life and it just may be the brute who captured her.Â
This was crazy graphic and sexy 100%, and even the overall plot was actually interesting, but the ending was so far from fulfilling. Tyr was so caveman like throughout most of this book, never actually expressing his thoughts but grunting. It was barbaric, but in some ways fulfilling when he actually spoke. He antagonizeD Helena throughout, but she saw through him. Was this smutty? Hell yes, it was gloriously dirty, but it actually had a plot. One I would have liked to see carried out, but one nonetheless.Â
The world as we know it is gone. It's been ravaged by flooding and technology, electricity, and internet is no longer. In this world, people do what they need to in order to survive. At least, that's what Helena is doing. She's surviving the current flood season in a little coven run by a tiny little Napoleon, who happens to have gotten her sister pregnant during their winter marriage. I'm this world, women are essentially currency and repopulating is gold. Helena has no use for a husband or a winter marriage, she wants to turn the lights on. She's sick of living in a world where arrogant men control things. Enter alpha male Tyr, a raider who's come to raid her coven. Tyr gets more than he bargains for with Helena, who does not cower in front of him. Rather, she mouths off and he takes her hostage. But is it being a hostage when secretly that's what she desired? Thrust into a new world of raiders, clan life, and extremely open sex, Helena adjusts and starts to figure out what it is she wants in life and it just may be the brute who captured her.Â
This was crazy graphic and sexy 100%, and even the overall plot was actually interesting, but the ending was so far from fulfilling. Tyr was so caveman like throughout most of this book, never actually expressing his thoughts but grunting. It was barbaric, but in some ways fulfilling when he actually spoke. He antagonizeD Helena throughout, but she saw through him. Was this smutty? Hell yes, it was gloriously dirty, but it actually had a plot. One I would have liked to see carried out, but one nonetheless.Â