The Mismade Girl

The Juliette Society #3

by Sasha Grey

The pendulum has shifted in Catherine’s life once again. Four years after peeling back the curtain on The Janus Chamber, we find her now ironically working as a political journalist, settled into a mundane routine and dating life because she chose to tell the truth about Inana Luna instead of embracing a life of decadence with The Juliette Society. Meeting a man who reignites her passion for cinema and guilt-free sex makes her realize what she’s been missing, but an unwanted scandal douses the flame. Forced to lay low, she finds an opportunity to take back her career with a human interest story in Honduras, but there are people who see Catherine’s article as a threat and will do everything they can to stop her from writing.

The world she finds is unlike anything she’s ever seen. Catherine is The Mismade Girl, and as her life is turned upside down, she must choose to either perish . . . or be remade anew.

Genres: Fiction, Erotica, Contemporary

216 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2018

About the author

Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis) is an American actress, model and musician, and former pornographic actress. Later in her adult film career, she was profiled by several popular culture magazines and television programs. She won several AVN Awards between 2007 and 2010, and has also been featured in music videos and advertising campaigns.

After her feature film debut as the lead in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, she shifted her focus to acting, starring in the black comedy/horror film Smash Cut as April Carson, as well as having a supporting role in season 7 of HBO's Entourage. She has also appeared in independent films Quit, The Girl from the Naked Eye, Life, and Mark Pellington's I Melt With You. She is a former member of aTelecine, an industrial music band.

Reviews

[Howard · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 Stars for The Juliette Society, Book 3: The Mismade Girl by Sasha Grey read by Pippa Jayne.
This is the only book in the trilogy that I could find. I really enjoyed it. I’m sure it’s not for everybody. The story includes elements similar to Eyes Wide Shut and it’s quite steamy. I really liked Sasha Grey’s writing. She has definitely put the idea about writing what you know to good use. I hope I can find the other books in this series and I hope Sasha Grey keeps writing these great stories.

[Blair · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Mismade Girl is the third and final book in the Juliette Society trilogy, and like the others, it's both compelling and flawed. We're reunited with Catherine a few years after the events of The Janus Chamber, and she's finally broken up with her boring boyfriend (thank god; that character was a total dead weight). Her exposé about controversial artist Inana Luna earned her a degree of fame, which she's parlayed into a career as a political journalist, but she's dissatisfied and restless. A search for the next big scoop leads her to follow tip-offs provided by a mysterious benefactor known only as Mr X; she ends up flying out to Honduras, where she's installed in an opulent island resort. Which, surprise surprise, is yet another of the Juliette Society's hedonistic playgrounds.

I'm going to deal with the flaws first: once again, the villain is cartoonish; the film references have a tendency to feel a bit tacked on; and for such an intelligent person, Catherine is naive to the point of stupidity when it comes to doing what strangers tell her to (e.g. everything with Mr X) and jumping to conclusions (e.g. assuming it was Dominick who leaked the video). As in the previous books, Catherine's approach to feminism is inconsistent, and she has an unattractive habit of judging women she deems prudish for whatever reason. Catherine gets on her soapbox so often that it's impossible not to see her as a mouthpiece for the author's own opinions; this is both an asset and a problem. (And reading back over my review of The Janus Chamber reminds me that my main issues with Catherine have been the same throughout the series: her wisdom, experience and self-assurance make her naivety unbelievable; her contradictions are both maddening and endearing.)

But, even taking all that into consideration, The Mismade Girl is a hell of a lot of fun. It's possibly the most gripping of the trilogy, and almost definitely the hottest. It feels like the author has hit her stride when it comes to keeping the pace up; I was never bored. The sex scenes (and there are lots) are better than they were in the previous books. There's a satisfying conclusion which does a good job of pulling all the threads of the plot together. It becomes clear Grey has always had a great ending in store for Catherine, and it just feels so right. Plus some familiar faces from the previous books reappear – something I found oddly pleasing.

Even though The Mismade Girl irked me at points, it ultimately made me glad to have stuck with the trilogy. I think anyone who's read the others is going to be happy with how Catherine's story is wrapped up.

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[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The mislaid girl is a great conclusion to this trilogy.
I like the way that Sasha writes. Occasionally it appears as though she is thinking out loud,exploring opinions and challenging your thought processes through the medium of Catherine.
I found it interesting that her ex Jack was mentioned a number of times and I expected some cameo from him but I will leave you to read to find out if that happened.
Catherine seems rather conventional and staid when you first meet her,but a meeting with a man who ignites her passion brings her back in to the Juliette Society. What follows is the exploration of Catherines sexuality and her feelings for the girls who have gone before but not in as great a depth as the second book. The illusive Mr X and the power he has over Catherine and everyone has her character re evaluating and the conclusion is rather more explosive than you imagine
You are not expecting the ending at all.
A unique way of writing that had me hooked. A good four stars

[C. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm pretty sure I would've finished this book quicker if there weren't so many narrations that weren't related to the main plot. By the time the plot picked up, I forgot what already happened and I just wanted to get through this book.

[Dave Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

[Mr. P · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ich mag Erotik und ich mag Romane. Und ich mochte sogar Sasha Grey's erste erotische Romane dieser Serie. Doch dieser Teil hier ist so absurd und weit weg von allem was man sich auch nur ansatzweise auch mit viel kreativer Energie vorstellen kann. Und da meine ich noch nicht mal die wenig aufregenden sexuellen Szenen im Buch.

Die gesamte Story kommt so eigenartig und unglaubwürdig daher, dass Kopfschütteln und Weiterlesen schon eine gewisse Leistung darstellt.

Dieses eigenartige Gefühl, das sich in den ersten Teilen der Serie zumindest nur zwischendurch eingestellt hat, ist hier Dauergast.
Wer das gesamte Buch gelesen hat ohne sich wenigstens einmal mit der flachen Hand auf die Stirn zu schlagen möge gerne hier mittels Kommentar antworten.

[Γιώτα Παπαδημακοπούλου · Rating 2 out of 5]

Σίγουρα καλύτερο απ' τα προηγούμενα βιβλία, δεδομένου ότι υπάρχει μια σχετική πλοκή και παρατηρούμε και μια κάποια εξέλιξη σε ό,τι αφορά τον χαρακτήρα της πρωταγωνίστριας, ωστόσο, ως σύνολο, παραμένει μια ιστορία που δεν έχει πολλά να πει -τουλάχιστον σε άτομα εκτός του χώρου στον οποίο κινείται η Grey.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun and filthy finale of the multi-talented Miss Grey's sex and power trilogy.

[Afton · Rating 4 out of 5]

First super spicy book I read with graphic sex scenes. I still think about some of them to this day.

[Paulina Alvarado · Rating 3 out of 5]

an enjoyable end to an entertaining trilogy. the story is simple and felt rushed at times but it is nonetheless an amusing and somewhat substantial piece of erotica. worth the read.

[Sheraz Qayyum]

Good

[Brendan]

Rating: 3 1/2

Flawed plot and annoying protagonist. But good pacing, some hot sex scenes, and some interesting asides, even if Grey can get a bit too preachy in her tangents. If you just want to be entertained, it's 4 stars. If you need literary soundness, drop it to 3.

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