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This book was free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was one of those books that started with a lot of promise but I felt it fizzled out in the second half. I liked the plot, the subject of the fertility market in ex-soviet Ukraine can hardly be accused of one that’s overdone. I liked the dual timeline and this usually works quite well in terms of giving a feel for where a story is headed.
But, the book is written in first person narrative, to someone who we don’t learn the identity of until much further through the story. This is where I found it didn’t work too well. Towards the end, where the various threads should be coming together it seemed to get clumsy and confused between the timeline and the narrative and I had to keep rereading sections to be clear about who was doing what.
It also felt as the book got towards the end, that numerous characters who’s back stories had been quite detailed earlier on, were actually not that important after all. I found the ending to be rather disappointing really given how well it started so I can’t really give this more that a 2-3 start rating overall.