Ugh, now I know why it took me nearly four months to finish this book! It was just dreadful, which is SO disappointing because I adore Nora Roberts, and will continue to read everything she writes. But this. This. Let me tell you, the first 50-70 pages of The Obsession are classic Nora, harking back to the days of Divine Evil and Carolina Moon (my favorites), and I was hopeful that this story meant she was finally out of her slump. I've felt her last handful of novels have been painfully bogged down with extreme and unnecessary detail (mostly of the main character's profession), and I'm sorry to say that ended up being the case for this book, too. 
 Some other things I disliked: 
 - The overly detailed home renovation. It felt like it would never end, and did absolutely nothing to push to story forward. If she had removed the renovation passages, the book would've been less than 100 pages. For real. 
 - Naomi is too perfect. Irritatingly perfect. She seems to have almost no flaws, and a bottomless bank account. She was not relatable as a main character. 
 - Xander is a bossy douchebag. 
 - That ending, the bad guy. I mean, what the hell? The entire conflict began and ended within two pages. Snooze.