This was great - fab concept, really well researched (I wonder if the author knows people who have been taken in by MLMs in real life...), and really fantastically paced. I was gripped from the start, Drew's unfortunate run of luck making her a perfect mark for the LumiUS ladies. A great summer read and I'm really grateful for the chance to read and review this book.

Oh, how I loved this book. If you've ever been in an MLM, or if your friends have been, you'll relate to it pretty hard. The main character, Drew, is back in her Jersey hometown after failing out of New York City. Her dream is to become a serious journalist, but she's only ever gotten contract jobs that easy fall through. Desperate for money, she takes a meeting with her childhood friend, Steph. Steph offers her "the opportunity" - shilling for LuminUS, an MLM that claims to make women beautiful through supplements and facial creams. Drew has the "in" with the bigwigs at the company because Steph is one of them. When one of those women is murdered, Drew starts to investigate, and she realizes there is more to LuminUS than meets the eye. The murder doesn't happen until the halfway point, so there is a lot of setup, but it's needed to see out the rest of the plot. If you liked HEY, HUN by Emily Lynn Paulsen, you'll love this.

This is an MLM murder mystery quick read. While definitely a newer concept I hadn’t read before, I was a little bored with the story. There weren’t really a lot of twists and it was a bit predictable.

This was a fun, funny, quick book that I devoured in about 4 hours, tops. There were some really funny, cute parts, and of course the mystery behind the "silver lotus"/LuminUS brand. It was very on the nose regarding mlms and the type of woman who fall prey to those types of business models, as anyone who has ever done so can attest. Definitely would be a book to throw in your beach bag or take on a long car trip.