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I didn’t like this as much as I liked The Kiss Quotient, but I still thought it was very enjoyable. I like the strong families that Hoang writes around her characters. The miscommunication parts of this story are quite frustrating, but also understandable due to Khai’s neurodiversity. The one thing that made me slightly uncomfortable was the treatment of Esme’s relationship with her daughter. It
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This book was twisted. First, let’s get this out of the way. This is a thinly disguised retelling of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story, from the unusual first name to the childlike way Rose Gold acts to the father who is clueless to the questionable online boyfriend. Except in this story, Dee Dee goes to jail instead of being murdered. When the story opens, Patty Watts is
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I liked returning to the White House kitchen to visit with Ollie and the other chefs, but I didn’t enjoy this story as much as the first one. I didn’t really care about the part of the mystery around the First Lady, because the stakes weren’t really very compelling. The part of the mystery around the death of the electrician was more interesting, but moved
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This was a perfect, fun read for my vacation! Stella is a young woman with autism who is convinced that her autism is keeping her from having good sex. With a mother who is hounding her to find a relationship, she tries looking at the problem the best way she knows how — analytically. Surely, if she is bad at sex, she should find someone
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