The Kiss Quotient

Author: Helen Hoang

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018
Pages: 352
Rating: Recommend

Synopsis: Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. 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 way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by a pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice - with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner who can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the box on her lesson plan - from foreplay to more-than-missionary position. . .

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense parternship starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.

Review: There is quite a lot of graphic sex in this novel - consider yourself forewarned. That said, there is a larger message here, and I enjoyed the more substantive parts of this novel. Maybe let's not tell my mother I read this one :-)