The Kiss Quotient

 Shirley J.                      Adult Fiction                   Asberger's, Male escorts,  Economic trend tracking

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang   352 pages

Stella Lane is an econometrician (economics expert) who researches and analyzes marketing trends to guide corporate business decisions.   She is very successful and obsesses over the math of compiling sales figures in various sectors so much so that she spends upwards of 12 hours or more a day at work and even comes in on the weekends because she so loves what she does.  This behavior necessitates little to no social life and her experience in that department is almost non-existant as in her 30+ years she has had 3 sexual encounters none of which were particularly pleasing as she was diagnosed in her childhood as autistic and suffers from asbergers.   She can hardly tolerate other people touching her.  She doesn't relate well to other people and doesn't know the norms of social interacting especially in large groups.   Her solitary work is perfect for her.   She can tabulate numbers to her heart's content and she can do it alone.   Perfect.   When her mother starts pushing her to find a boyfriend and stop working so much as her mother wants very much to be a grandmother.  Her mother starts trying to set Stella up with the boss at her firm who happens to be the son of one of her mother's acquaintances.   After a sort of stumbling get together, to which Stella turns her head when the boss goes in for a kiss, the idea of kissing him nearly makes her puke.   Prior to that Stella's sexual encounters have been 3 one night stands that neither party came away feeling particularly good about.   Stella likened French kissing to a shark having those little fish clean it's teeth.  The mere remembrance made her shudder.  She decides she needs instruction on the how of handling relationships and the intimacies that go with it.   She decides to hire a male escort to teach her what she needs to do to keep a man.    And that is what she does.   Enter Michael.   They both end up with way more than they expected!  A good book and manual on how to get and keep a man.   This one is pretty sexually explicit - it is training after all.  I recommend this one to adults through senior citizens.