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A review by cloudyafternoons
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
4.0
Stella is incredibly smart and skilled at her job as an econometrician. She’s also painfully awkward and lacking in the most basic social skills in a very real way. Not the “I’m so quirky and different, woe is me” way, but in a painful, embarrassing, isolating way. She’s autistic and not proud of it. She hates the way people treat her differently because of it, so she rarely speaks of it.
Her mother pressures her, as most parents of single children do, to date. The problem is she’s just not good at any part of it, including the physical side. So she decides to hire a professional.
Michael is an escort. But he’s so much more than that. He’s a devoted son and brother who puts his family above all else - that’s why he dropped out of school to return to work in his mother’s dry cleaning shop. He’s struggling to pay for his mother’s cancer treatments - not that he tells anyone. So he starts working as an escort. It’s a way to make money and his own quiet way of revenge on his cheating, criminal father.
Stella hires Michael, and they soon develop an agreement: he will coach her in all the physical aspects of a relationship, and she will pay him a generous sum of money. Stella quickly becomes obsessed with Michael, as her nature tends to do, and she finds herself in love with Michael, who already has fallen for Stella and all her innocence and goodness. But one night, all the insecurity and shame Michael carries with him comes crashing down, and he ends his relationship with Stella.
Both characters have a good amount of growth - they both learn to accept their own flaws and make the changes in their lives they had once deemed impossible. I really enjoyed this book and its characters. Definitely worth reading!
Her mother pressures her, as most parents of single children do, to date. The problem is she’s just not good at any part of it, including the physical side. So she decides to hire a professional.
Michael is an escort. But he’s so much more than that. He’s a devoted son and brother who puts his family above all else - that’s why he dropped out of school to return to work in his mother’s dry cleaning shop. He’s struggling to pay for his mother’s cancer treatments - not that he tells anyone. So he starts working as an escort. It’s a way to make money and his own quiet way of revenge on his cheating, criminal father.
Stella hires Michael, and they soon develop an agreement: he will coach her in all the physical aspects of a relationship, and she will pay him a generous sum of money. Stella quickly becomes obsessed with Michael, as her nature tends to do, and she finds herself in love with Michael, who already has fallen for Stella and all her innocence and goodness. But one night, all the insecurity and shame Michael carries with him comes crashing down, and he ends his relationship with Stella.
Both characters have a good amount of growth - they both learn to accept their own flaws and make the changes in their lives they had once deemed impossible. I really enjoyed this book and its characters. Definitely worth reading!