Book info

• Title Unsticky
• Author Sarra Manning
• Year 2009
• Genre Romance

STATE OF GRACE. Money makes the world go round - that's what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where everyone's ahead apart from her, she's partied out, disillusioned, and massively in debt. If she's dumped by another rock-band wannabe, squashed by anyone else at her cut-throat fashion job, or chased by any more bailiffs, Grace suspects she'll fall apart... GRACE UNDER PRESSURE. So when older, sexy and above all, wealthy art-dealer Vaughn appears, she's intrigued against her will. Could she handle being a sugar daddy's arm-candy? SAVING GRACE. Soon Grace is thrown into a world of money and privilege, at Vaughn's beck and call in return for thousands of pounds in luxurious gifts, priceless clothes - and cash. She's out of her depth. Where's the line between acting the trophy girlfriend, and selling yourself for money? And, more importantly, whatever happened to love?

Thoughts

I’m kind of in two minds about this one. On the one hand, I started reading thinking this was an absolutely absurd situation to have ended up in. But on the other hand, you sort of can see how it would happen - particularly as our characters appeared to have feelings for each other right at the start of the relationship - complicated though they may have been.

It felt like reading a completely outlandish concept but one that you can’t really look away from, because really, how can this possibly end up and how can it end up with a satisfying ending?

I did get increasingly frustrated with the characters as time went on, if they could only actually be honest with each other, things would have been a lot easier - but that’s true of almost all stories isn’t it? If people actually said what they were feeling, we would be short of a lot of literature. I did quite like the ending though, that Grace eventually took matters into her own hands, risked pretty much everything, and got the result she was after. Good stuff.

Rating: 2 / 5