Enjoy Jessica's psychological trainwreck

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This one lived up to the hype. I tore through each page, desperate to find out the ending (and, really, the beginning, which remained a mystery to the reader for a while).

Jessica is a struggling makeup artist, living paycheck to paycheck, paying for his sins emotionally and financially. She eavesdrops on a client's conversation and finds herself scamming her way into a psychological study that pays $500. The study is on morality and ethics. As her pay increases, so do the stakes, and Jessica embarks on an intriguing game of cat and mouse. But who is she playing with? The doctor running the study, Dr. Shields? The doctor's husband, Thomas? Her newest fling? Her closest friends? Her family? As Dr. Shields pulls the strings behind the curtain, Jessica lives out her own creepy version of the Michael Douglas movie, "The Game".

This book was told in two perspectives: Jessica's and Dr. Shields's. The storytelling was effective. The descriptions were enough to allow the reader to picture each scene, but not so much as to cause the reader (me) to zone out (it happens).

This is a psychological trainwreck of a book. When you read about her past mistake, the thing that haunts her the most, you understand how money is the motivating factor it is for her. And as someone with a similar financial issue who is also named Jessica (yeah, I said it), I can really relate to this aspect of Jessica's story.

There were some weak aspects of this book: Jessica's past "trauma" in the theater world was not effectively set forth; her relationship with her newest man in the book was not described in a way that justified her feelings for him; the ending, sadly, was weaker than I'd hoped. That being said, I still loved this book.