So the fact that the protagonists are so confused about their feelings for one another gets old fast and becomes rather annoying. It’s a lot of will they/won’t they, but the reader knows that they will.
I *understood* her – she’s pretty straightforward and eloquent – but none of the characters felt particularly three dimensional to me. Of course, the fact that the main character is autistic is a breath of fresh air, but I didn’t connect with her. I was expecting a smart romance, but it really isn’t that original. Do we really need to talk about it in every single page? No, we don’t. I was entertained for the first fifty or so pages, then I became tired of the sex talk. So she hires Michael, an escort, to teach her a thing or two. She’s also bad at relationships and human interactions in general. See, Stella is bad at sex, or so she says. Stella is autistic, as is the author, and so, no one can say that it is not authentic.īut the storyline is not, however, very realistic. How lovely that this is an #ownvoices novel.
And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic… Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. 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 to crave all the other things he’s making her feel. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice–with a professional. It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. 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. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. Genres & Themes: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Autism, Relationships, Erotica
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