The Kiss Quotient

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The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang. Het romance: an autistic economist hires a male escort for relationship practice. So it's part fake/practice relationship trope, part gender-flipped Pretty Woman, and very good. Romance hung a little heavily on "they're just sooo physically attracted to each other" for my personal romance-reading tastes (and ew, PDA) but there were a lot of great character beats and moments too; would rec to people who read contemporaries or people who want to see a nice autistic lady get her HEA with a sweetheart slab of beefcake (WHAT it's ROMANCE he's TOTALLY FAIR GAME to objectify). Oh, and it's own-voices, the author said in her author's note that she herself got a diagnosis as an adult. Own-voices about the autism, I mean, not afaik the escorting or beefcakiness.