Surprised me by drawing me in and refusing to let me go
For starters, I was super excited about this book before it released. Then it started getting more and more hype and I read just ONE review, which totally trashed the book. I let that one review sway me and stuck this far down to the bottom of my TBR, shelving it in the hype machine fodder bin. Thankfully, since its release I'd read so many amazing reviews that I decided to give it a (very doubting, hesitant) try.
OH. MY. GOSH. I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. I would have missed out so badly.
I fell in love with Stella and Michael both, and I fell HARD. It probably doesn't hurt that I am (like Stella) a K-Drama fan and I'm also a really big fan of Asian food (though I tend to go Korean, now I really want to try real Vietnamese foods!) Stella is this amazing woman and I love how passionate she is about econometrics, and it was really interesting getting little glimpses into her world and what she does. And of course Michael is just a dreamboat. *swoon* I love the way their relationship develops, and the tension created by the transactional nature of the way their relationship starts and then their own insecurities drew me in, tangled me up, and refused to let me go.
I really appreciated the note at the end by Helen Hoang about how Asperger's/Autism tends to present differently in women, and how a lot of what's out there when you Google it is about how it presents in men. (Isn't that just typical?)
OH. MY. GOSH. I can't believe I almost didn't read this book. I would have missed out so badly.
I fell in love with Stella and Michael both, and I fell HARD. It probably doesn't hurt that I am (like Stella) a K-Drama fan and I'm also a really big fan of Asian food (though I tend to go Korean, now I really want to try real Vietnamese foods!) Stella is this amazing woman and I love how passionate she is about econometrics, and it was really interesting getting little glimpses into her world and what she does. And of course Michael is just a dreamboat. *swoon* I love the way their relationship develops, and the tension created by the transactional nature of the way their relationship starts and then their own insecurities drew me in, tangled me up, and refused to let me go.
I really appreciated the note at the end by Helen Hoang about how Asperger's/Autism tends to present differently in women, and how a lot of what's out there when you Google it is about how it presents in men. (Isn't that just typical?)