OBSCURITY: Jodi Arias

by Lisa Wilson, Nick van der Leek

Jodi always equated attention with love. It wasn’t so much that Jodi wanted true love with Travis, Jodi wanted Travis to adore her and make her the center of his world. She was done with playing second-fiddle to everybody else. She forced her way into other people’s lives, but even that wasn’t working effectively anymore. The day Jodi decided to finally take control, to take her life back, was the day she decided to kill Travis. OBSCURITY is the 6th and final narrative in the Jodi Arias series examining a crime that rattled America and the world. True Crime maestro Lisa Wilson and freelance photojournalist Nick van der Leek are back one last time with their conclusions to this crazy yet heart-wrenching case. In the first five narratives the authors emphasized several themes that played into the undercurrents of Jodi Arias. There was audacity, there was brazen mendacity, a lack of authenticity, vanity and the obscenities of a chameleon coming into her own. But the real root of this murder is a battle for significance. Jodi, dying on the inside, is not prepared to just fade away. Travis, although outwardly confident with his friends, on the inside is also plagued with feelings of inadequacy and questioning his own worth. The essence of this narrative, make no mistake, is ‘social death.’ When faced with OBSCURITY one is forced to make a step out or step back. Thrive or die. On June 4th, 2008 Jodi made that decision for the both of them. Hold onto your hats because in OBSCURITY the authors boldly tackle the Law of Attraction along with the central role it played in both Jodi’s and Travis’ life and death struggle. What did it give them, what did it get them and eventually what did it take from them? More than any of us imagined! As Jodi Arias’ goose slowly cooks in Perryville, as her chameleon skin dries out, as she sheds layer upon layer, as she desiccates and diminishes ever more under the Arizona sky, the authors turn the narrative around and challenge the reader to deal with OBSCURITY, in all its guises. If OBSCURITY and insignificance prompted Jodi to kill, in a terrifying and especially cruel orgy of violence, can those same impulses inspire us to live better? Somewhere in OBSCURITY lies a greatness wanting to be borne. The authors reveal how stepping in the right direction can mean gaining back our lives and greater abundance than we’ve ever known, but stepping in the wrong direction can be catastrophic…

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 26, 2015

About the author

Lisa Wilson (aka Juror13) is a trial blogger who resides in California, USA.

She and South African freelance photojournalist Nick van der Leek, under the partnership of #SHAKEDOWN, have paired up to co-author many trial narratives.

Reviews

[Lee Talley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Travis being murdered again!

This book is truly ridiculous. How dare you judge a man you never met and make him out to be a lunatic. Jodi is still around to defend herself when you attack and judge her. Travis can’t defend himself. Your book sucks. Glad it was free!

[Anne Holmes]

Fascinating.

Another brilliant book in the series, sadly the last. Really makes you think about life.
By the way, its extremely unlikely that the quote about sex said to be by Oscar Wilde is by him.("Everything in life is about sex, except sex, sex is about power") It doesn't really sound like him, does it.?The use of the word sex to mean sexual intercourse was first attested to in 1929 by DH Lawrence.

[Laurie · Rating 3 out of 5]

And that's a wrap on Jodi Arias! Obscurity is truly the worst punishment that can be imagined for her. She took herself away from life on the the magnificent California coast to spend it on a barren patch of Arizona desert, about as obscure a place as one can find. And it's all very fitting. I really enjoyed this series and highly recommend it if you are trying to understand how this fatal attraction came about.

[SweetAnnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whew

Glad that I finished this series. They are the kind of books you don't admit enjoying when you're sober. Yay.