Review: Deep Obsession
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
Deep Obsession is a questioning, warm, loving, sexy and compromising story.  The novella is short about 72 pages per Amazon's website. There are no new characters, and the primary story is about Tanner and Natalie again, but I felt the parallel storylines involving the supporting characters helped to make everyday life more realistic. Natalie is progressing in her online studies, Jazzy is busily planning her wedding, Emma's health is better, friendships with Cheryl and Dani are strong, and we even had a brief trip to Russia. The brand name dropping was almost nonexistent and the sex scenes were not so redundant or frequent. There was a bit of conflict, but resolution was handled in an adult manner, Tanner seems to be finding some self confidence, and Natalie seems to be coming to teams with her active participation in the lifestyleThere were several scenes I really liked  in this novella - one being Natalie's time of exploration in the playroom, the dinner in the  restaurant with Tanner and Natalie's task to furnish the playroom. I loved this scene and wished it had been longer.  I felt for Natalie as she bravely took on a challenge she had no concept or scope of, a challenge forcing Natalie to really question her behavior, desires and why she liked it.  I thought the brief discussion of BDSM participation as being deviant behavior was very nicely handled.There's no doubt that Tanner and Natalie love each other, they are obsessed with each other. As Tanner says in the story  "Now....listen, baby," Tanner said with an earnestness in his voice that was new for Natalie. "I love you, impossibly. Like Romeo in his love story with Juliet, I don't have the will to live without you."I was given a copy of this novella by the author for an honest review