Helen Hoang’s The Kiss Quotient Is By Far the Best Romance I’ve Read All Year.
Are you looking for the kind of steamy romance that sucks you in and makes you want to put your entire life on hold until you’re done reading (at which point you’re going to be very, very sad it’s over)? If so, I cannot recommend The Kiss Quotient enough.
The female main character is an econometrician with Aspergers, who loves numbers more than people. She has difficulty in social settings and can’t stand French kissing. So, she decides she needs help learning how to be good at sex in order to keep a man and have a relationship.
Queue the entrance of gorgeous Vietnamese/Swedish escort Michael Phan. He has a one-time-only rule with clients but can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer. He also quickly finds he doesn’t want to turn down her offer.
I loved the peek into Vietnamese food and culture. And who can’t relate to pushy parents who want you to get married and have children ASAP? Not to mention feeling incredibly awkward in social situations with strangers (especially those you most want to impress), bad at dating, or unworthy of love?
Ms. Wang touches on all of these themes in a way that’s realistic, relatable, and often times funny. The writing is terrific. And the sex is hot, hot, hot. I highly recommend you buy and read this book, and review it, ASAP.
Here’s the full book blurb:
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position…
Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he’s making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic…
Have you read The Kiss Quotient? I’d love to know what you though in the comments section.
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