Review: GREAT - Intriguing Thriller - Unique world
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
I do not know how to start, wow! Sugar Babies was extremely mysterious and intense. The characters were complex and it was certainly a thriller. Mickey J. Corrigan has a fabulous writing style that keeps the reader wanting more and kept guessing; who is the murderer, who will be the wife, the murdered and broken? It was all very twisty and the ending was fantastic. I am still not really sure who won out in the end.Follow the retelling of a Sugar Daddy and his journey with three very different women. All vying for attention and money and figure becoming a sugar baby will help get their dreams. The first chapter is a diary entry from the sugar daddy explaining that he is retelling the girl’s stories and that he will break one girl, breaks the neck of another and marries the third. Throughout I forget it was a retelling and get deeply involved into the lives of these three desperate women.Esme is a 23 year old that wants to meet a rich, powerful daddy that will help support her in Coconut City and allow her to send money back to her long-time boyfriend, Jake. Jake has sent Esme off to earn money and help them buy out the local sports bar where Jake works. Esme is smart, attractive and a blonde bombshell. She has it all and knows how to act the part.Maire is a 27 year old tall, red haired looker and has already gotten herself a sugar daddy, Ted. They have been together for 3 years and are starting an online professional dating website that will match daddies with babies. Maire had over $100k in college loans when she met Ted and now together they are starting this business.Niki is a 22 year old stunner and moved to Coconut City three months ago to start at a teaching grad school. She is an artist and is deep in debt from college, renting and trying to make it on her own. Rent has fallen due and she doesn’t know where to get the money from.Niki runs into Maire and Maire introduces Niki to her website. They all get in touch with each other and the three women meet at a mixer that Maire has set up for daddies and babies to meet. Esme is popular and picky; along strolls a handsome forty-something year old that seems to be the youngest in the room. He heads straight for Esme and within 5 minutes they have made a deal and heading for the door. Niki is not so lucky, she is still hesitant about the whole sugar world and doesn’t know if she can really become a baby. Making a run for it, she escapes the mixer and is still penniless and troubled.Enter the daddies. Ted is with Maire; Jay is with Esme and Niki is having feelings toward her landlord, Len.Niki starts to deteriorate and obsessing over her landlord. Esme has found her calling as a blogger for Maire’s website and the whole business becomes a success. Maire is drinking and drinking and has a lot of secrets in her past that she doesn’t want anybody to know about. Esme has decided that Jake isn’t really for her anymore and wants to become independent.Which of these three women will become the broken, the murdered and the wife? This is the big question and was always on my mind throughout reading this thriller. All three women end up sleeping with multiple men and you never know which the Sugar Daddy is writing the account. Follow the luxurious life of a professional girlfriend and read along to find out the secrets that slowly get divulged. This was a great read and I would love to read more of the sugar world.