I enjoyed this book. The main character Monique sufffers childhood trauma, and an awful marriage to end up as a happy single mom living her life for herself and her daughters. The various countries Monique visits were so beautifully detailed in the book, I actually put them on my bucket list as places to visit. While Monique starts off a bit timid, by the end of the book she is a confident woman who doesn’t care what others think and takes her own sexuality into her own hands. If you dont like explicit sexual scenes this may not be the book for you. I did find myself sometimes frustrated with the main character as she continuously put herself in situations that made her almost have to continue dealing with sugar daddies. I was on edge wondering if Monique was going to end up in a situation with a dangerous sugar daddy as she frequently went home or to hotels with men she did not even know. This book is definitely an adventure for the main character and the reader.

Interesting and entertaining. Lots of adventure in many ways and kinda not like a book, more a memoir. Was attracted to it by the cover and the blurb and it's chick lit but a few added extras. Thank you Netgalley.

The cover is gorgeous! I usually don't read this genre, but Sugar sounded so interesting. It's not what I expected but still an entertaining and fun read. I prefer more substance in a story. It's a good fast read.

I was pleasantly surprised at how this book played out. I did not expect to fall in love with a book as quickly as I did with this one. Rated 4 stars and would recommend.

I received an advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review

Exactly what it claims to be.

Full review to come.
I deeply apologize, but life is a handful lately and I'm using all my free time to read, not review. I hope everybody understands.

Thank you to the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. It has been an interesting read and quite short. I will give 3 stars for this book. Not exactly what I expected but it's still quite interesting.

This was a fascinating read about the Sugar/escort world.
Our main character shows us the good and bad sides of this world. We see how it goes from being fun to just being like any other job, and how lines get skewed the longer she is in this world.

What I liked best about this book is how unashamed it all felt. The main character enjoys what she does for the most part, and never does something she doesn't want to do it seems. Sure she's not always loving it, but she finds things to like or at least to justify why she keeps being a sugar babe.

The world of Sugar babes, Geisha, and escorts is one that can be fascinating when its written like this. This book while it does have sex scenes they aren't the main focus of it. The main focus is our main character showing us her world before, during, and after having become a sugar babe.

I enjoyed this read to some degree. The author stuck to her own voice and (prose) style throughout when writing about her own experiences. Yes, the subject might not be for everybody but to Monique I will say thank you for telling your story.

Sugar was beckoning at me to be read, initially by the eye-catching and attractive cover and that it looked like it would be a very steamy read, as indeed it was. I was definitely not disappointed! I was smitten from the very first, right until the last page.

Monique is a loving single mother, who is trying to create a happy home for her two daughters and she's also a Sugar Babe, dating wealthy men, a practice known as Sugar Daddy dating. She mostly meets her Sugar Daddies during the day, when the children are at school or when they are with their father. Monique finds a thousand pounds in her purse after one night of passionate and very hot sex, and she realises that Sugar Daddy dating could be her way to survive as a single mother.

A heady life of wealthy men, luxury hotels and glamorous experiences ensue. One of my favourites was Iranian engineer Farshad, who liked to lavish Monique with gifts such as expensive jewellery and leather boots and wine and dine her in exotic restaurants.

Dates with Sugar Daddies see her flying to Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Milan, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong and skydiving in Dubai. Thanks to her Sugar Daddies, Monique can provide for her children, she has some independence, and experiences a whole new range of sexual fantasies.

She deactivates her account with her agency, Seeking Arrangement, and her ex-husband stops paying for the children's' upkeep. She is then prepared to do anything for the sake of her children. Money becomes her top priority and she starts living in the dangerous waters of the escort world. Now she realises that she must find a way out before this hollow existence becomes a habit.

I absolutely loved reading Sugar. Maybe it was the novelty of reading a book told as memoirs and based on true events. It was fascinating to read about Monique's travels to different countries and about the different nationalities, cultures and personalities of the gentlemen she dated. However, she ends up working as an escort rather than a Sugar Babe, as it's all about basic survival instincts, money and very spicy sex.

Sugar is steamy and hot, passionate and caring, intense and emotional and there are definitely moments where you will laugh. It is such a fun, fast and interesting read.

Monique X is a brilliant storyteller and really draws you in with her descriptiveness.

Thanks to NetGalley and Thistle Publishing for my ARC.

DNF: 1/5 - the cover is gorgeous but the blurb is misleading

I honestly thought I was going to read an erotic romance book. I was wrong. This is a memoir. It’s stated as such in between the title page and contents page; however, the book opens on the first page of chapter one. After reading a few bland chapters and thinking it was reading as someone’s personal accounts I flipped back to the very beginning — yep, “based on a true story” and “I’ve tried to recount as many memories as possible.”

Fun fact: never let your audience know you may or may not have the correct details to your own life, it makes you look incompetent.

I may have kept reading if the story was exciting but it wasn’t. I made it to chapter 4 and had to DNF. I wanted fiction, erotica, amazing sex scenes. What I got was someone’s personal account of their sugar days which is creepy to be honest. I don’t want to read (or at least know I am reading) someone’s personal life.

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Was not what I was expecting. Read like a memoir, although it was well written, just was not my usual style I like to read. Some hot moments but overall, it just wasn’t for me. I’m sure others will find it more engaging than I did.

3.5 Stars
Sugar by Monique X is really a Memoir of a mother trying to support her kids by taking the life of a Sugar Babe. It retails her hot encounters and what she had to do. Overall enjoyed the book, but it was something different than what I expected.

My thanks to the Publishers via NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review.

This is classed as a memoir/non fiction/autobiography, but to be honest I'm not sure what it was really trying to be.

Monique X has written a book about her life during the time she was a Sugar Babe, it was a way of her making a decent living in order to look after her children following her losing her job and her husband leaving her.

Despite, the fact that she didn't appear to overly enjoy the role that she found herself in, there was one thing in it's favour, it was a very lucrative way to make money and see the World at the expense of the Sugar Daddies.

At times I found this a bit of a chore to read, I started off quite liking it, but the poor spelling and writing soon became a big turn off. I sincerely hope that it's undergone some serious proof reading prior to publication. I did keep reading it though, as I find it very hard to give up on a book due to the Author having spent the time writing it and that the books can sometimes improve and if I'd given up I would have missed out on a gem. Sadly, this wasn't the case this time.

Definitely outside of my comfort zone, but made for an unexpected read. While I found the plot to be unique, I wish there was more description, plot development, and detail throughout the text.

I really didn't enjoy this book, I felt very sorry for the main protagonist, but also annoyed with her situation.

This book was first of the kind for me. I heard and have noticed the trend for call girl and escort memoirs and even watched an episode of 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' (the only reason I watched it was because the lead role was played by spouse of the cute guy who plays detective in Lewis))). Go figure).

Anyhow, Sugar was my first experience with such memoirs of the culture of 'love-for-hire'. And I have to admit, I read the book in one go. I was really interested in the main character's reasoning, in her feelings and emotions, in her duality.

The main character Monique is Oxford educated single mother of two girls chooses the life of Sugar Dating or rather the life chooses her. I still do not understand this choice completely but I have come to respect it. From my own position of university-educated single mother of one (I've been through similar hell of a marriage as well). However, Monique and I made different choices...

Monique Sugar Dates for 2 years and that's it. She comes out on the other end a changed woman... Good luck to her.

The book is an interesting re-course into human psychology and human nature. There are a few sentences that I think I will re-use as quotes, they are so spot on. 

Sugar is the book for women, for grown-up women with life choices and life experiences behind us. It is one more view on life, people, love, relationship and what sells and what's given.

It is not about approving or disapproving 'love-for-hire' or criticizing sex for sale. The author is not asking us to. It is not up to us, readers, to judge. The choice is made. And we are shown in detail what it means to go with such a choice. 

A worthy read.

It was an interesting and enjoyable read. Couldn't put it down. I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Netgallery.

Be warned of sexual content.
Good erotic story, gets you into the story line. The story is about a women get into escort services to look over his child and pay bills.

Once the author's sugar dating life began, what a read this became! It was pure guilty pleasure to read about how she managed so many different gentlemen at the same time.