Addicted To You

(My thoughts)

It’s been a long time since my feelings about an audiobook haven’t been clear when I reached the last chapter.

Addicted To You is the story of Lily Calloway and Loren Hale, an alcoholic, and a sex addict, and how their co-dependent relationship has gotten all twisted between their addiction and the lie they have been living.

I can totally relate to a functional alcoholic. In my line of business, I’ve come across more than a few of them. They can drink a couple of bottles of hard liquor every day, show up to work, and function as normal as anyone else, but just waiting to get to the bottle again.

On the other hand, a female’s sex addiction is a new subject for me. I do believe it can be as bad as any other addiction although in a female’s case is a little harder to take (I know, I’m trying not to be sexist). By nature, we are not the gender with the predisposition to casual sex and salacious behavior.

Female sex addiction is a whole new territory for me. And I can say I clearly understand it. As a result, I lacked the sympathy I would normally feel for an addict, and some of Lily’s actions and recklessness didn’t sit well with me, but then again, addicts are reckless.

With that said, Addicted to You was a story I couldn’t put down. These two dysfunctional individuals dragged me into their messy world and in spite my doubts and reservations they didn’t fail to take me on an emotional ride.

Lily and Loren have been friends since childhood, and to cover their addiction they have created a fake relationship to pacify their families and to serve as a cover for their addictive behavior. They are friends, good friends, you can see they deeply care for each other. They live together, and we see them covering for each other and enabling one another’s addictions. Meanwhile, there’s strong sexual undercurrent between them that creates an AMAZING sexual tension…I give credit to the authors for managing so vivid to create that tension admits the sex addict raunchy encounters. Good thing these are mostly off-page.

They are young, super-rich, and good looking, especially Loren (from Lilly’s point of view). In many ways, despite their addiction, I found an innocence about them and a need to be accepted that made them very real to me.

The story can be in many ways very compelling, we get a closer look at their families and how their conduct most likely influenced their predicament. The characters are well written, and for the small glances, I got of Lily’s sisters and other secondary characters I really want to get to know them better.

This is not a happy story. Watching people spiral out of control is not fun, but I enjoy it. And I don’t know if it’s just that I want to know how this wreck ends that had me downloading the next book right away or it’s just simply that I found their story completely addicting.