The Kiss Quotient

“How did one not obsess over something wonderful? How did one like something a reasonable amount?”

The overall story was enjoyable and sweet even despite being predictable and having some of my least liked tropes: insta-love and miscommunication. Let me elaborate.

Firstly, the representation was great, Stella and Micheal made a cute couple and I liked how the gender norms were reversed here, Sella was the rich one working in a STEM field and Michael was the artist struggling with paying the bills.

But they were gaga over each other way too soon, I wasn't even midway through the book when they were thinking about falling in love. No. You guys just fell in lust. And there was too much of the devil's tango if you know what I mean. At first, it was fine, definitely better than that Sarah J. Mass cringefest (I think I actually saw her promote this book somewhere haha), however I thought this would be more of a chick-lit romance with “some” steam and there was definitely more than “some”.

It's refreshing to see a protagonist from the spectrum in this scenario because it's important to acknowledge that someone with this disorder can be just as much of a sexual being as anyone, but, for me, this was explored a little too much and it overshadowed the story and it got really repetitive fast. At one point they were touching ever other page and I was rolling my eyes thinking Can you guys not do this right now please? Your family is in the next room. By that point I was ready for the story to wrap up.

The ending was not by favorite either. I can't stand when people don't use their words and assume what you're thinking and make a choice for you. Please, no. Tell me how you feel and we'll take it from here. And they did exactly that, they assumed how the other felt and it got messy. But there's a happy end, don't worry.