Please note: some text has been adjusted with corrections (my name).
As you know, I am RARELY on social media... but I spent an entire day yesterday reading a book I couldn't put down, so I wanted to share.
Twisted Obsession by Áille Róis's first novel. While parts of it made me unsure I should continue (some dark areas), the payoff was worth it. The author writes in such a way that you are drawn into the characters, wrapped into their feelings and motivations, and you ride the roller-coaster with them until you are led to a peaceful rest that leaves you wanting more.
I'm not sure of availability on other sites, but it's available on Kindle Unlimited (and Kindle for $2.99).
I love to help new writers, having aspired to be one myself. She inspires me to dust off the stories I've not had the confidence to share.
Great job Áille Róis! I can't wait to read what's next!
Originally posted on Facebook by P. Sommers. You can see the original review here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16aRG7rSFk/
Edit: Was removed from Facebook, but is now on Amazon. It has also been edited since the original post since the price has changed. You can see the new entry here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1KTXCN4U2E92Y/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8
There's a reason the stories I tell dive deep—into trauma, into twisted relationships, into the spaces most people would rather look away from.
Part of that comes from being shaped by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, who never shied away from the shadows of the human mind. But more than that... it comes from life. From the kind of experiences that leave bruises beneath the skin. From walking through my own darkness, and realizing that healing doesn't come from pretending it isn't there.
It comes from facing it. Naming it. And choosing, over and over, to keep going anyway.
My stories live in those gray areas—those messy, uncomfortable places that blur the line between right and wrong, good and bad, victim and villain. Not to glorify pain. Not to shock. But because these things happen. And pretending they don't—sugarcoating reality to make it more palatable—only deepens the silence around people who have already been hurt.
But that's never where my stories end.
What I want readers to find in my work isn't just darkness. It's the possibility of something beyond it. The idea that change is real, even if it's hard. That healing is possible, even if it's lifelong. That there can be light at the end of the tunnel—but not without cost, not without effort, not without scars.
Sometimes that change requires outside help. Sometimes it takes a moment that shatters everything. But it always, always takes work. Work that doesn't stop at a neat little happy ending. But because real growth is messy. Ongoing. And never guaranteed.
In Twisted Obsession, Damien doesn't magically "get better." He chooses therapy. He confronts himself. He keeps showing up, long after the final page. Because love doesn't fix you. Only you can do that. And not everyone will. Not everyone wants to. That's their decision to make. Just like it was mine.
These stories are for the people still in the tunnel. For the ones who've crawled out and don't know who they are anymore. And, maybe, for the ones who've never had to go through it—to remind them that life is more complicated than it seems.
This is the heart of what I write: Not tragedy. Not romance. But consequence. And choice. And the strength it takes to become the person you were never given the chance to be.