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Title & Author: King Of Obsession by Jessica Jude
My rating: 4/5
Publication date: 4th November 2025
Blurb:
Rhett
Being a rockstar has been the dream since the first time I picked up a guitar. The fame, the lights, the rush of playing sold-out concerts. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted.
But reaching that dream means keeping my past buried. To pull it off, I need someone to play along. Someone the world will believe. Lucky for me, I already know the perfect girl.
Unlucky for me? She wants nothing to do with me.
So now I have to do what I do best—charm her until she wants me as much as I want her.
It’s only for six weeks. What could possibly go wrong?
Saylor
Rhett Cole was my first kiss. My first heartbreak. The boy I couldn’t forget, no matter how hard I tried. When he walked away eleven years ago, I learned the hard way that fairy tales don’t come true for girls like me.
Now he’s back, more famous than ever, asking me for the impossible. Be his fake girlfriend for six weeks? Spend hours stuck on a tour bus with him? Share his bed?
Oh, and offering enough money to cover my bills for the next year.
It sounds simple. But nothing about Rhett Cole has ever been simple.
I’ve heard his promises before. And if I let him get close again, I know exactly how this ends.
But the more I push him away, the harder it gets to remember what’s fake… and what’s dangerously real.
Review:
King Of Obsession is the third book in the Hand of Revenge series, although you don't need to have read the first two to enjoy this one (I didn't but will definitely be going back to read them!)
Saylor is recently separated from her military husband and works at a charity job that she really enjoys. When she is made redundant, she is nervous about how to pay the bills, especially now military housing support is stopping.
Rhett Cole is a "nepo baby" rockstar who has recently signed a record deal with a label which has taken a chance on him. His contract specifically states that he is to have a squeaky clean image so he hides the fact that he had recently completed a stint in rehab.
Rhett and Saylor bump into each other and while Saylor pretends she doesn't recognise him, Rhett definitely remembers her. She is the girl he had a thing with back at summer camp over a decade ago.
After not being able to stop thinking about Saylor, Rhett has a proposition for her - come along on tour, pretend to be his girlfriend and keep him on the straight and narrow. Saylor however is still angry with him for not getting in touch with her after summer camp. But this job could really help her financially...
I ate this book up. I forgot how much I love a rockstar romance and this one is done very well. It isn't all fluffy and rainbows, the pace was great, especially when it came to the two of them acknowledging their past.
I can't wait to read the rest of the series!
