"That hadn't been practice fucking for a practice relationship or pro bono fucking to prove he was better than his dad. He'd fucked hundreds of women, but he'd never been so in tune with one woman's body. He'd never been so desperate to please or so elated when she cried his name and came for him again and again and again."
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang is an own-voices Adult Contemporary Romance that focuses on a main character who is diagnosed on the autism spectrum in line with what was previously known as Asperger's syndrome. It is also a 2018 GoodReads Choice Winner for the best Romance and I buddy read it with the lovely Kylie (@bookbehindyou).
The story follows Stella who relates more to numbers than she does with people as she has Asperger's syndrome. She is getting pressure from her mother to produce grandbabies and from her point of view relationships and sex is a means to an end and not something she has sought pleasure from. She decides to hire a male escort (Michael Phan) to help her practice for when she does need to pleasure her boyfriend/husband except she ends up falling for him and his K-Pop good looks instead.
I am all for a good saucy sex scene, but this felt a bit more detached like I was reading porn as there was a sex scene within the first 10 pages and the characters hadn't been developed enough for me to care. Overall, I really wasn't rooting for the romance in this story or the attempt at a love triangle either.
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang is an own-voices Adult Contemporary Romance that focuses on a main character who is diagnosed on the autism spectrum in line with what was previously known as Asperger's syndrome. It is also a 2018 GoodReads Choice Winner for the best Romance and I buddy read it with the lovely Kylie (@bookbehindyou).
The story follows Stella who relates more to numbers than she does with people as she has Asperger's syndrome. She is getting pressure from her mother to produce grandbabies and from her point of view relationships and sex is a means to an end and not something she has sought pleasure from. She decides to hire a male escort (Michael Phan) to help her practice for when she does need to pleasure her boyfriend/husband except she ends up falling for him and his K-Pop good looks instead.
I am all for a good saucy sex scene, but this felt a bit more detached like I was reading porn as there was a sex scene within the first 10 pages and the characters hadn't been developed enough for me to care. Overall, I really wasn't rooting for the romance in this story or the attempt at a love triangle either.