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The Kiss Quotient
by Helen Hoang
This was a cute little book. I thought a take on romance with a character on the spectrum was pretty cool. It definitely made the story interesting. To sum up what it was about:
A 30 year old woman who is desperate to learn how to properly date and have a sexual relationship after being pressured by her mother goes out of her way to hire an escort to get the job done.
Throughout this journey together, the main character and the escort develop a physically and emotionally intimate relationship and fall for one another, while both hiding secrets from one another that would require a level of vulnerability they aren’t willing to show.
She doesn’t want him to know that she is on the spectrum because then she fears that he would only be with her out of pity or wouldn’t want to be with her at all. He doesn’t want her to know that he is an escort and in debt due to the insanely high cost of his mother’s hospital bills and that he is sometimes tempted to resort to other means but fears being seen as just like his father.
In time they both discover one another secret, and it ends up being your happily ever after ending where everything works out for everyone. I gave it four stars because it some ways the story is absolutely cliche, but in a lot of ways it is the total opposite which drew me in. I think that there is so much infantilizing of people who are on the spectrum that sometimes people don’t consider that many of those on the spectrum are capable of leading completely normal lives and have the same desires as their peers.
A 30 year old woman who is desperate to learn how to properly date and have a sexual relationship after being pressured by her mother goes out of her way to hire an escort to get the job done.
Throughout this journey together, the main character and the escort develop a physically and emotionally intimate relationship and fall for one another, while both hiding secrets from one another that would require a level of vulnerability they aren’t willing to show.
She doesn’t want him to know that she is on the spectrum because then she fears that he would only be with her out of pity or wouldn’t want to be with her at all. He doesn’t want her to know that he is an escort and in debt due to the insanely high cost of his mother’s hospital bills and that he is sometimes tempted to resort to other means but fears being seen as just like his father.
In time they both discover one another secret, and it ends up being your happily ever after ending where everything works out for everyone. I gave it four stars because it some ways the story is absolutely cliche, but in a lot of ways it is the total opposite which drew me in. I think that there is so much infantilizing of people who are on the spectrum that sometimes people don’t consider that many of those on the spectrum are capable of leading completely normal lives and have the same desires as their peers.