We deserve to have our stories told, with all our ideals and hopes and failures and challenges. It’s so lovely to read female characters who are written true-to-life. She is unique, multi-layered, and fascinating. You feel her stress, her confusion, and her pain but also her triumphs, her sensuality, and her drive to truly enjoy and make the most of her life. Reading The Kiss Quotient, you’re immediately and totally immersed in Stella’s world. Discovering that there are entire groups of people who have similar quirks and experiences as I do changed everything.” I want to take Helen Hoang out for coffee and pick her brain about EVERYTHING. In an interview with Bustle, she said: “Ever since I was little, I’d been watching others and struggling to emulate them because I didn’t think I was acceptable the way I was. Hoang, like her heroine Stella, has Asperger’s - but she wasn’t diagnosed until she was an adult. If this hasn’t convinced you to read the book yet, here’s why you absolutely should (no seriously like go buy it immediately, Amazon has it on prime one-day you have no excuse): So what’s a girl to do? Hire an escort, of course. She also has Asperger’s - another layer to our complex leading lady. She decides she needs romance lessons of a sort. In case you haven’t heard anything about the buzzy novel yet, here’s a real quick overview: Our heroine, Stella, doesn’t have a lot of experience with romance - french kissing freaks her out and she’s much more comfortable with equations than with people. ANYWAYS *steps off soapbox and dusts shoulders dramatically* all this to say that I am truly over the moon with joy that Helen Hoang’s blissful, refreshing, sexy as hell new novel is getting the attention and praise it deserves. Let me assure you that they are not and should not be. It’s rare for romance novels to command attention - there is a notable episode of Younger in which basically every character is like “romance authors are in hiding,” which is BULLSHIT WHY SHOULD THEY HIDE, but really illustrates this idea that romance writers should be embarrassed by the work they produce and thus wouldn’t seek the spotlight. Think about this question and answer it HONESTLY to yourself: Do I view content made by women as being FOR women at first glance? Does it pervade my view? Do I view content made by men as “universal” and the go-to, expert experience?
#The kiss quotient movie
There’s a pervasive notion in pop culture that a certain kind of content is better than another that a movie created by a room full of men and filmed in a dark, sepia-like finish (the grainier the better) is automatically more worthy of praise, attention, and respect. But, that doesn’t make them any less enjoyable or worthy of discussion. You’re probably thinking of the paperbacks with lurid covers and titles like The Billionaire’s Secret Love Child Revenge - and yes those qualify – but there are also SO MANY wonderful, beautifully written rom-novs (lol can we make this a thing) that yes, okay, have pretty lurid covers and silly titles too. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.SIDEBAR REAL QUICK LIKE: Let’s talk about romance novels for a second. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner 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 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 way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe.
”-BuzzfeedĪ heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. “This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive.”-Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018!
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