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A review by janjanthelibrarian
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
5.0
I'm so happy to have gotten this book on my radar. I feel like a broken record, but I swear I don't normally like contemporary romance. I usually find them predictable, and worse boring.
However, this does the contemporary genre good. It is fresh, funny, hot, and I love a book that plays with traditional gender norms. Yay gender swapped Pretty Woman! I don't want to suggest that that is all this is. It's more than a reboot. This novel's heroine is autistic and for the life of me I cannot think of another book that I've read that has a diagnosed/self-identifying autistic female character. Autism so frequently seems like a male disorder because that's what we see in media and I am so much more readily attuned to the male symptoms/experience. What a service to her readers that Hoang has written a novel with a character based on her own perceptions as an autistic woman.
The portrayal of Michael as biracial and his Vietnamese family was also riveting. So often the romantic hero is one dimensional and driven solely by how he relates to the female character. It's refreshing to see a well rounded male protagonist who has a personality, past, friends, family, and work life outside of the key romance.
This book gets all the stars!
Thanks so much to NetGalley and Berkley for the copy I received for review.
#thekissquotient #netgalley
However, this does the contemporary genre good. It is fresh, funny, hot, and I love a book that plays with traditional gender norms. Yay gender swapped Pretty Woman! I don't want to suggest that that is all this is. It's more than a reboot. This novel's heroine is autistic and for the life of me I cannot think of another book that I've read that has a diagnosed/self-identifying autistic female character. Autism so frequently seems like a male disorder because that's what we see in media and I am so much more readily attuned to the male symptoms/experience. What a service to her readers that Hoang has written a novel with a character based on her own perceptions as an autistic woman.
The portrayal of Michael as biracial and his Vietnamese family was also riveting. So often the romantic hero is one dimensional and driven solely by how he relates to the female character. It's refreshing to see a well rounded male protagonist who has a personality, past, friends, family, and work life outside of the key romance.
This book gets all the stars!
Thanks so much to NetGalley and Berkley for the copy I received for review.
#thekissquotient #netgalley