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Title: Curious Obsession
Author: Elora Nicole Ramirez
Genre: Contemporary Romance

About Curious Obsession:

One moment Juniper Reese existed, and the next she vanished into thin air.

This is how it feels for Lavender, her twin, when she receives the call that Juniper didn’t show up to her job one morning. Still adjusting to Juniper’s cross-country move to run from the ghosts of their mother’s death, Lavender knows something is wrong — but she also knows her sister is still alive.

 

As she follows Juniper’s footsteps in an unfamiliar town, she begins to uncover a plot that seems to suggest her sister was being stalked before her disappearance. Now it’s on her to find Juniper before time runs out and convince those around her that her disappearance wasn’t an attempt to “get away.”

 

What she doesn’t know is that she’s being watched by someone who just realized perfection came twice. He begins to hone in on Lavender, his attention never satisfied until he can have them both for himself.

 

Will Lavender be able to find her sister before time runs out?

Or will she be the next target in an obsession gone wrong?

 

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What I thought about Curious Obsession

High School teacher Juniper Reese is missing. Her twin sister Lavender is called and she travels cross country to find out what is going on. As with many missing person cases, it takes a while for authority figures to agree that she's missing. But over the course of the book, evidence is revealed that Juniper is in a very serious situation.   

 

The first half of the book builds some nice tension as Lavender looks for her sister. It can get a bit repetitious and at one point I wished things were moving more quickly. There's also a nice dichotomy between the fear Lavender feels for her sister and the romantic feelings she's experiencing for one of her sister's colleagues. 

This is a book with building tensions which typically mean there should be some payoff at some point. Unfortunately, I found the second half disappointing as I waited for the big moment. The flashback to what happened to Juniper in the days leading up to her abduction slowed things down with more repetition that filled in some minor details but spent too much time on unnecessary details in the school. 

I did enjoy how their mother was involved in the story..this was my favorite part. I also thought the stalker aspect well done. I could feel the tension and eyes on them. I did find myself wanting to know more about the stalker or maybe more on how he got away with it.

 

The story is told in multiple point of views. It feels strange to say I liked Lavender over Juniper, but I did. Juniper and others around her made so many mistakes it totally annoyed me.  

There were aspects I liked about this book, and things I thought could have been better. The writing is good and there's a nice tension to the story, the stalker is definitely creepy, and there are some romantic elements that I enjoyed. But there were also other aspects that bugged me, so I'm giving this three and a half stars. 

About the Author

Elora Ramirez has always been a word girl.   It started when she was four, when she taught herself how to read and write as a way to entertain herself while her grandmother kicked and danced in aerobics class. She cut her teeth on books from Dr. Seuss and writing anywhere she could find the space — including her Fischer Price kitchenette, the pages of picture books, and Highlights Magazines.   She's matured a bit since then, now choosing to write in the margins of her books and on the mirrors of her bathroom ideas and thoughts surrounding story and what makes us human. By day she leads a team at a tech company, waking up before the sun rises to get in her love for words before stepping into her role of helping others see the plot line of their own story under development.   Intuition and beauty get her through the day, as well as her chef-husband and their little lion son. Curious Obsession is her fourth novel.  

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