Thank you to Tor.com for the free advance copy of this book.

Elisha's family is drowning in debt. To pay it off and give his younger sister a chance at an education, he signs up to become a Docile - contracted out to live and work for a trillionaire. Most Dociles choose to be injected with Dociline to help them forget and move happily through their contract but Elisha plans to refuse the drug, even after learning his Patron is Alex Bishop, the handsome young CEO of the company that makes Dociline.

I feel torn about this book. It's inventive and queer and deeply engrossing - I completely lost track of time while reading; it's one of those books where you sort of get tunnel vision while reading it. I found Elisha's descent into a Docile-like state even without the drugs to be horrifying and fascinating to watch. DOCILE wrestles with already thorny issues around consent and power while taking them into an extreme scenario.

But about halfway or so in, I began to