It was not.
Maeve's thirty-three and her life is falling apart. She lost her job, she's having to sublet her apartment and move in with her friend, Ryan. Ryan wants a real relationship but Maeve is just in it for the sex.
Then Andrea comes back into her life. Andrea and Maeve grew up in a cult called the Mother Collective. As the name suggests, it was a group of women who used men to get pregnant and then discarded them (i.e. killing them and burying their bodies in the yard). They also "discarded" any boys they gave birth to in a similar fashion (except for one, and it was never really explained why they kept him around, which bugged me). The cult is broken up and Maeve is adopted and loses track of Andrea until they reconnect after uploading their DNA to a genealogy site.
While Maeve's life is in shambles, Andrea is seemingly on top of the world. She has a great husband, a wonderful best friend, and a thriving business called NewLife. NewLife makes highly realistic robotic dolls to help people prepare for motherhood, or helps women who have lost a child deal with the grief of that (I'm not sure having a robot doll that looked like my dead baby would help, but hey, what do I know?). Andrea seems like a savior to Maeve, inviting her to live in her home and help with her company.
I can't say too much more without giving away the plot (such as it was), but it was boring and predictable and the ending was just terrible. No one was likeable, Maeve was dumb as a post, and the pacing was off. The first 2/3 of the book were slow and then the last bit felt rushed. I honestly shouldn't have forced myself to finish it, it was a waste of time.
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