Is Unsticky Worth Reading?

I dove back into 'Unsticky' and the last scenes still sit with me like a bruise and a warm coat at once. By the end, the six-month contract between Grace and Vaughn either reaches its stated end or is terminated by Vaughn, and that break forces both of them into a period of separation where Grace finally confronts what she feels — not because there's a tidy, cinematic declaration, but because absence and choices expose the truth. The fallout includes Grace nearly sleeping with another man, wrestling with self-worth, and ultimately choosing not to return to the transactional way she started. Those plot beats and the contract-ending/reunion arc are described in multiple discussions and reviews of the book. What I love and frustrate over is how Manning leaves the emotional work a little messy and quick at the finish: the reconciliation isn’t a long epilogue of vows but a more abrupt mending that feels earned by the characters’ stumbles rather than by saccharine proof. A lot of readers describe the ending as sudden and wanted more scenes to breathe, which I completely get — I wanted them to talk, actually talk, for pages. Overall, the ending reads like a permission slip: permission for Grace to choose love on her own terms rather than to stay defined by a contract, and for Vaughn to let go of control enough to be human. It left me satisfied and twitchy in the best way.

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What a ride 'Unsticky' is — the protagonist you really follow is Grace Reeves, a twenty-something fashion assistant who’s drowning in debt and miserable in love. She gets dumped by her boyfriend Liam, and that embarrassing moment leads to an encounter with Vaughn, an older, wealthy art dealer who offers her a startling plan: be his companion/hostess and sign a contract to be available to him, in return for money, clothes and a monthly allowance. Grace accepts out of desperation and curiosity, and the novel explores how that arrangement warps her sense of self, her friendships, and what she thinks love might be. Vaughn functions as the other main figure — not a traditional hero, more a controlling, enigmatic man whose offer propels the plot. Their relationship is transactional at first, then messy and emotionally complicated: the contract has an end, they separate when he terminates it, and that rupture prompts Grace to confront what she really wants. Secondary players like her boss Kiki (who is brutal but influential) and exes like Liam push Grace into choices that feel very modern and morally gray. The story doesn’t sugarcoat the uglier bits of power and money, and I came away thinking about how messy grown-up choices are — it stuck with me for days.