I read this one because I read several reviews which made it seem like it might be up my alley, and I've been looking for romances which don't make me cringe. Without going into unnecessary personal detail, the story of a woman who has difficulty with kissing, sex etc being presented as something positive and as the basis of a romantic plot was something that appealed to me. I'm not autistic like the protagonist here, but thanks to some ~delightful childhood trauma~ a lot of the issues seemed pretty close to home, and I was excited to see some of my problems represented here.

It was disappointing, then, that basically all of the protagonist's issues were resolved within the first 100 or so pages, with the rest really dedicated to another related plotline. Turns out that sexual dysfunction can pretty much be cured by just sleeping with someone who's really good in bed. Who knew?

The romance here was well done, but it irked me that there was so little time dedicated to the protagonist actually dealing with her issues; they seemed to become non-issues as soon as she was presented with a man who knew how to do the nasty but nice, and that's just not how it works in real life. I liked the characters well enough, and there were some interesting differences from the romance norm - the main love interest is Vietnamese, for example, and the female protagonist earns significantly more than the male protagonist - but it didn't do enough to differentiate itself for it to merit the hype, in my opinion. I'd recommend it to fans of romance in general, but probably not as anything other than a relatively sweet and often, erm, less sweet romance.