4.5 stars rounded up!
You're invited: Seeking women aged 18 to 32 to partcipate in a study on ethics and morality conducted by a preeminent NYC psychiatrist. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed. Call for more details.
Jessica is a woman in her late twenties trying to make it in NYC. She loves to do makeup and that's what she does for a living. She is employed by a company that does on demand, at home, makeup application. She dreams of doing makeup for broadway and different shows one day. For now, she's just making it as much as she can. She also has a sister who has a disability and she secretly helps support her parents with her sister's medical costs. Basically, Jessica is just scraping by.
One day she is doing a college girl's makeup and the client is talking about doing a study - that's worth $500. This interests Jessica and she secretly takes the info when the girl is not looking and plans on posing to be her at the study. Jess ends up going to the study only to tell them who she really is but ends up being a very interesting subject - Subject 52 to be exact, for Dr. Shield's and her team. Dr. Sheild's can't get enough. She asks Jessica back for more and has her answer some really deep questions. She makes her dig deep and if she thinks the answer is not deep enough she says "try again."
Eventually this evolves into a 1-on-1 study in Dr. Shield's house. Dr. Shield tells Jessica she will pay her a ton of money but things are about to go even deeper. Jess has bills to pay and family guilt to take care of so she agrees. What transpires in the rest of the book is insane. Love, lust, guilt, adultery, lies, etc. You name it, it's probably in here. Is all comes down to the question: "Is it worth it?"
I read this book in under 24 hours. If I didn't have to go to work today, I would have easily stayed up and read this all night and finished it in a few hours. I was so excited for the Wife Between Us by Greer and Sarah early last year but this one, in my opinion, is even better! I loved the short and fast paced chapters. They are not named with Jessica or Dr. Shield's names but you get a general gist of who's chapters are who's when you dive in.
I think what really won me over in this book was the overall complexity of each character. Just when I thought I had them figured out they really turned another way. Were there some parts that were predictable and maybe not as shocking as the anticipation in the beginning of the chapter made it out to be? Sure. But the weaving of the character's throughout each chapter and how many turns there were kept me engaged and hooked in for the ride.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for my ARC of this book. This comes out, tomorrow, January 8th, 2019 and I highly recommend you pick it up!
You're invited: Seeking women aged 18 to 32 to partcipate in a study on ethics and morality conducted by a preeminent NYC psychiatrist. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed. Call for more details.
Jessica is a woman in her late twenties trying to make it in NYC. She loves to do makeup and that's what she does for a living. She is employed by a company that does on demand, at home, makeup application. She dreams of doing makeup for broadway and different shows one day. For now, she's just making it as much as she can. She also has a sister who has a disability and she secretly helps support her parents with her sister's medical costs. Basically, Jessica is just scraping by.
One day she is doing a college girl's makeup and the client is talking about doing a study - that's worth $500. This interests Jessica and she secretly takes the info when the girl is not looking and plans on posing to be her at the study. Jess ends up going to the study only to tell them who she really is but ends up being a very interesting subject - Subject 52 to be exact, for Dr. Shield's and her team. Dr. Sheild's can't get enough. She asks Jessica back for more and has her answer some really deep questions. She makes her dig deep and if she thinks the answer is not deep enough she says "try again."
Eventually this evolves into a 1-on-1 study in Dr. Shield's house. Dr. Shield tells Jessica she will pay her a ton of money but things are about to go even deeper. Jess has bills to pay and family guilt to take care of so she agrees. What transpires in the rest of the book is insane. Love, lust, guilt, adultery, lies, etc. You name it, it's probably in here. Is all comes down to the question: "Is it worth it?"
I read this book in under 24 hours. If I didn't have to go to work today, I would have easily stayed up and read this all night and finished it in a few hours. I was so excited for the Wife Between Us by Greer and Sarah early last year but this one, in my opinion, is even better! I loved the short and fast paced chapters. They are not named with Jessica or Dr. Shield's names but you get a general gist of who's chapters are who's when you dive in.
I think what really won me over in this book was the overall complexity of each character. Just when I thought I had them figured out they really turned another way. Were there some parts that were predictable and maybe not as shocking as the anticipation in the beginning of the chapter made it out to be? Sure. But the weaving of the character's throughout each chapter and how many turns there were kept me engaged and hooked in for the ride.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for my ARC of this book. This comes out, tomorrow, January 8th, 2019 and I highly recommend you pick it up!