Review: Curiously captivating!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
WOW! Let me begin by a quote at the very end of Mickey Corrigan's full length novel:"I know my wife. She will read this manuscript at once, pouring over it as you have. She will  complete it in one sitting.  Like you, she will not be able to put it down. "This quote sums up my exact experience with Sugar Babies!  An intensely dramatic, and sizzling story about three girls with dreams and the men who help make them into who they become!Wow!  I could not put it down, I would have read it in one sitting if I wasn't interrupted by family arriving and I literally poured over the whole story, my curiosity begging for more as I turned each page.A fantastic opening captures me immediately.  Someone is writing the story... we dont know who yet but it's his story of three girls who come into his life, one who's spirit he breaks, one who's neck he breaks and one who he marries.In a month by month account we meet the three girls, Marie, Niki and Esme.  Three girls playing the game... being Sugar Babies to their Sugar Daddies.  Professional Girlfriends to the old, rich and famous.  Marie is the brain child and runs a website which caters to the Sugar Daddies needs, she runs mixers with the babies and daddies... dreaming of earning a living from the memberships.  Niki and Esme and have dreams too.  They need the $$$ to make their dreams come true and being a professional girlfriend does just that.Of course anything that's too good to be true usually is and slowly the dreams start to unravel, one girl goes missing early in the piece, a multitude of suspects are around but perhaps she's just run away, unable to cope with the life of a professional girlfriend and all it brings.  One is drinking much to heavily and has her dream almost in the grasp of her hands before she puts two and three together to make five.  One is stuck with her Sugar Daddy as well as her boyfriend back home who she's earning all her $$$ for but then there's the complication of falling in love with someone who may possibly have something (but surely not) to do with her friends disappearance.As things are slowly falling apart and the gold of Coconut Island is becoming quite tarnished before I knew it I reached the thrilling conclusion which neatly wrapped up all loose ends.  All I can say is WOW what a ride!Sugar Babies is full of Mickey Corrigan's trademark sas and in your face language and thrilling descriptions which leaves most scenes up to your imagination which I thought totally added to this story because you're only limited by your imagination and boy did mine run wild with a thrilling, fast paced, risky and dangerous lives Marie, Niki and Esme were living.  I was taken back to the good old days of stories I read in wide-eyed teenage wonder by the likes of Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran.I give this 5 stars because I litterally couldnt put it down, I was dying to get back to it while I was out with the family and because it was a very good read, especially as it's the first full lenght novel of Mickey's that I've read.  I was left satisfied by the surprising conclusion, as well as a bit sad.  But the point is it made me feel something and that gets a star from me :)