Review: A Shallow Obsession
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2012
My wife Carla's review:I found this book a month or two ago on the top free lists on the Kindle Store and was intrigued enough by the premise to download it to my Kindle. There wasn't much of a product description, but I guess that's somewhat to be expected for a novella that's only 61 pages--fully a quarter of which is teaser for another book.Amber Scott does seem to have some talent as a writer, but it's overshadowed by the bizarre nature of her work. I work as a therapist with young women, and the protagonist of this novella is definitely a candidate for treatment. The idea that someone could, after eight years, still be obsessed with a cheating boyfriend who they had only known for two months?There's nothing romantic there at all, and I find it disturbing that Sara is portrayed as "normal", instead of someone desperately needing pyschological help. What makes it all the more strange is that she and her dead boyfriend seem to interact solely on the sexual level, further indication that their relationship(even while alive) was anything but healthy.The plot of the book gets one star from me. Scott's writing ability brings it up to two, but this is definitely NOT recommended. I work with too much of this abusive crap to see it portrayed as "romantic" in a novella.