It took me a bit to get really engaged in this story, but by the end of this I was squealing and feeling warm and cozy. Michael and Stella were a really great match, and oh boy I just love a hero who is so deeply in love with the heroine and they keep talking about how proud they are of her. Stella's love of her work and her job was really lovely. I like that she was a math oriented person, specifically stats. It felt like a more obscure choice for a STEM minded heroine. The side characters are fun and I'm really pumped for Hoang to explore this family more in her following books.

The author's note at the end reinforced my decision to up this rating from 3.5 to 4, because autistic women are so rarely represented but they are out there! The only other book I can think of with an autistic character is [b:The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|1618|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1479863624i/1618._SY75_.jpg|4259809], which I enjoyed, but is written by a neurotypical author. So to have own voices rep in the story of an Asian woman