Once You're Mine: A Dark Stalker Romance (Possessing Her)

I am not a reader by any means. I haven’t even really picked up a book in nearly a year, but this book? I finished it in a week. I was glued to it anytime that I was free. The chapters are short and easy to read, but well written. Calista as a protagonist is wonderful because despite coming from riches and having what I suspect to be OCD, she is just a normal girl with a normal job and normal friend when this HUNK of a man, Mr. Bennet becomes OBSESSED with her and will do anything for her. I would highly recommend and I am writing this before I start the next one :)

I didn't want to like this book and I'm ashamed I do.I'm ashamed that I flew through it in 3 days of reading, when that's never happened to me with any other book.Their relationship is obviously unhealthy. Stalkers are rarely ever hot, rich men and if a man did ANY of the shit he did irl, it would not bode well.Beating the shit out of someone in a bar and police not being called, literally killing a man and setting the place on fire and absolutely no investigation taking place? Definitely unrealistic, but it is fiction after all and I guess that's the point of dark romance.Their entire relationship is unhealthy, obviously. But at least the fmc Calista isn't a complete idiot like in many other dark romance novels. Although, if you know you have a stalker and there just so happens to be the same guy constantly coming out of nowhere randomly wherever you are, I would think the math would be mathing. But I digress.It has a quick pace with very little fluff, which I appreciate. Kept me engaged, hence why I zipped through it so quickly and ends on a cliffhanger. So I guess I'll be binging the sequel now. 😪 Hopefully I won't be up til 5am for a second night in a row. 🥴Their relationship (if you want to call it that) goes 0 to 100 REAL quick. Touch her and you die is definitely an understatement. The intense drama of their sexual tension almost made me laugh, but not necessarily in a bad way.I did like that even though he's unhealthily enraged with any man that comes within 5ft of her, he's still gentle and caring with her and makes it clear from the jump that he wouldn't hurt her. Well, physically at least being that stalking mentally and emotionally causes harm. But anyways..The fact that he does become so enraged once he finds out her trauma was a big green flag for me (as ironic as that may be) and in that case I am totally okay with him unleashing his fury onto whomever caused it and will read through that scene with glee in the future if it's described in the second novel. 😈Absolutely LOVED her BFF Harper! She's funny and probably the most normal thing about this whole book. 😂My two qualms: The phrase "worried my bottom/lower lip" is used pretty consistently and ground my gears. But that's just my personal issue.Given the cover, I was expecting more of a paranormal stalker romance, so I expected him to be like a ghost or incubus or something. But it's contemporary, so I was kind of disappointed in that.I'm definitely interested in a paranormal stalker romance, so if you've read this far and know of some, please comment below. 😁😁

I enjoyed this book! It was a super slow burn so that’s why I rated it a little lower on the scale. Not that slow burns are bad, but they’re not my favorite.I love Hayden Bennett. He’s simply scrumptious. Idk what it is about a dark and broody man, but I love em. Especially when they’re obsessed with one woman and one woman only!This is my first stalker romance in a while, and I forgot how much I enjoyed them lol. I may be a little deranged, but they scratch a part of my brain nothing else can reach. Will be continuing asap

Dear Lord, Hayden Bennett is absolutely insane and I LOVED it! I felt so connected to Calista! I've been that girl! Trying so hard to distance yourself from someone decent because of trauma. Buuuttttt also Hayden isn't decent. So good!!!

Intense relationship here.Borders on unbelievable ... but just toes the edge.I love the cliffhangar ending and am ready for book 2 of this duology.I do have a few questions plot wise, but... this is clearly meant to be a fun read to spice up life and not a work of literary mastery so I'll play blind👩‍🦯 and ignore that a man with such impulse control issues is more likely to be in jail than to be a prosecutor, that he should have done more research before killing her dad, and that it's highly unlikely that the Calista would be so destitute after her father's death. It's also unlikely that every single person he assaulted doesn't press charges and also unlikely that any of his antics weren't recorded on someone's phone and uploaded to the internet... costing him his job.But.. I ignore it all and enjoyed it for what exactly this book was.... a smutty good time.My husband loved this book too and he didn't read it. Lol.

Holy cow! I’m so addicted to Callie and Hayden’s story! The restraint this man showed in the entirety of this book was phenomenal . Love Callie’s friend too! I can’t wait to see where this is going in book 2!