Look, don’t get me wrong. I know every book has a target audience and no book is bad for everyone. If someone found it good enough to be written, somebody will surely find it a worthy read. However, at this point, I guess I’m just sick and tired of reading unrealistic, goofy romances.
They all have the same pattern:
- Extremely attractive boy and girl (who for some strange reason are absolutely unaware of their physical charm) meet.
- There is some very conflictual past (of either one or both) which they feel should be hidden at all costs.
- They have only dated crappy individuals in the past and when they meet, the sparks fly instantly.
- Once they get physically intimate, oh god, there is no stopping them. For some reason authors can’t get enough of emphasizing on how passionate and hungry they are for each other.
- Even though everyone (including all the other characters in the story and the reader) knows that they are in love, the dilemma is stretched across chapters just because the two lovers themselves cant realize that they are in love.
I had heard some really favorable reviews of The Kiss Quotient and so thought it would be different. I mean, surely all these booktubers have read as many goofy romances as me (if not more) and so now won’t rave about another one. However, I was highly disappointed.
The story has an interesting beginning. The problems that the two characters are facing and the way in which they meet is something I have never read in any previous novel. Alas! The novelty wears off soon enough.
Besides the fact that by chapter 5, the couple had already reached the ‘cant keep their hands off each other’ stage (which continues till the very end), I felt that the author didn’t use the conflicts enough. I mean, the girl suffers from Asperger’s and so is not open to new and strong stimuli, however, she is absolutely comfortable and falls in love with all the novel Vietnamese foods and practices in the first go. Ummmm… a bit hard to digest. Also, her aversion to intimacy was spotlighted a lot in the beginning, however, one kiss from this particular guy and she starts dreaming of kissing him 24×7?
Of course, like all other romances, each and every conflict that was introduced anywhere throughout the story gets perfectly resolved before the epilogue. Well, that’s not bothersome. What bothered me is that everything builds to a crescendo and suddenly in the final few chapters, everything suddenly finds a solution all together. Bit unrealistic, isn’t it?
So overall, as I said, every book has a reader. And I will confess, when I had just begun reading romances, I liked some such goofy romances. So may be if you are just starting your reading journey, or beginning to explore the romance genre, or read fiction as a way of escaping the not so perfect reality of your life, then give this one a try. However, I speak from experience, there are way more realistic and unique romances which are as beautiful if not more.
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