It was the slowest of slow-burn, as Michael introduced new concepts to Stella, to ensure he was checking items off her list of course! But it was also sweet and not at all uncomfortable or forced. The romance itself was a bit hot and heavy, but also gentle. They may not see eye to eye on everything, but you got the sense that if they made a final decision, it would be backed by those closest to them. Both main characters had really supportive and loving families.

I also really liked how their families played big parts in the story, and not just as pressure points. There were reasons and motivations, and sometimes they had the most surprising pieces of their character that I was not expecting at all. I must say, for a romance novel, I found this one a bit twisty with the plot – or maybe it was that the characters were far more than the usual two-dimensional ones that I normally read about. Until she finds one that just might get her after all.

But that’s ok because they tend not to get her either. She’s obsessive about data and the way that it works, but she doesn’t really get people. Definitely a highlight of the year, and one I am glad that I eventually picked up!! I loved the characters, the situations and the writing.

And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic… Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. Gorgeous and conflicted, Michael can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan, from foreplay to more-than-missionary position.īefore long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses but to crave all of the other things he’s making her feel. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice – with a professional. It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French-kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases – a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with and far less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks mathematics is the only thing that unites the universe. The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) blurb:

The kiss quotient by helen hoang