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A delightful read for at home by yourself

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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This book has been much reviewed here over at CBR and I probably won’t be adding much except: don’t read this at work. This book does not fade to black and you will feel weird about it. This is a book for reading at home while your partner is out of town and you are curled up on the couch with a glass of wine. That is the perfect scenario for The Kiss Quotient. The plot boils down to – Stella is 30 years old, professional successful, and when she measures herself against her peers, seemingly behind in the dating department. […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

A different voice in romance

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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Stella Lane is mathematically brilliant but due to her diagnosis of Asperger’s has difficulty navigating social situations. This means that at the age of 30 she is facing increasing pressure from her parents to settle down and provide grandkids but has no prospects for a mate- and she has had such bad experiences in the past that she finds the idea of sex distasteful. A cutting remark from a coworker leads Stella to believe that maybe the problem with sex is Stella herself. She decides that the rational way to deal with sex is by hiring an expert to coach […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.”

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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The Kiss Quotient has been hanging out in my TBR since Malin’s review last July and I was excited to read it this year fulfilling tasks for both Read Harder Challenge and the Reading Women Challenge. I’m glad I read it in the early part of the year and didn’t put it off any longer, it was a quick fun read and while it wasn’t perfectly executed it was certainly better than average and quite good indeed for a debut. I have a soft spot for books where the author has workshopped them and thanks their writers group in the […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Love on the Spectrum

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Finished Feb. 21, 2019, took 4days to read 4 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Romance Rating 4/9 for 2019 overall, 1/3 for Romance Well, this was a fun and fast read! I came across The Kiss Quotient from one of my favorite bloggers, Grace at The Stripe. She is an avid reader and I knew this would be a good fluffy romance read based on her recommendation. Stella is a very successful econometrician (whatever that is) in Palo Alto, California. We learn early on that she is on the spectrum, and has not had a […]

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3/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

All the things that make you different make you perfect.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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It was Amazon that recommended The Kiss Quotient (2018) by Helen Hoang to me. I’m a sucker for romance novels, but then I saw Roxanne Gay’s blurb: “This is such a fun read and its also quite original and sexy and sensitive.” I was sold. The long wait list at the library also showed how popular it was, so I read it almost as soon as it became available. In many ways, The Kiss Quotient is a normal romance novel. The plot and story are all about the two main characters getting over their fears and inhibitions and finding true love at last. What […]

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12/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

Some small fumbles, but the good outweighs the bad. #CBRBingo

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #9 out of 16 So basically, my thoughts on this book are that it made some entry level mistakes, but I enjoyed myself anyway, because it also did some things I really liked. I’ve been having trouble buckling down to actually write this review, so I’ll do what I always do when that happens. Wait 5,000 years to review it and then do a pro/con list. Let’s start with the stuff I didn’t like about it first, so we can end on a positive note! Didn’t like: How the central conflict between them […]

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8/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:99 |

The Kiss Quotient

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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This review will fill the “Not in My Wheelhouse” square. I believe I have stated this before on here, but I’m not much of a Romance girl. There seems to be a stereotype of women loving their little mass market paperbacks of billionaires seducing young ingenues or Fabio with an open shirt kissing a woman with a heaving bosom. Of course, not all women are into these things, and if they are, that’s their business and they aren’t hurting anyone, so who cares? But I digress…romance isn’t my thing, which is why I surprised myself by enjoying the Cannonball Read […]

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8/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

The escort with the dragon tattoo

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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I started putting down my thoughts for this one, and then decided to check out what Malin had to say and noticed that we had similar reactions.  Overall, I really enjoyed this one, and I am going to need another reader to do some fan art of what Michael’s tattoo might look like ASAP because an athletic, attractive, ripped man with a dragon tattoo? Obviously, going to need a visual on that! Stella is a highly successful econometrist working in the Bay area involved in predictive analytics. She is incredibly good with data and patterns, and has helped create algorithms […]

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7/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:134 |


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