My one sentence description of this book is "sexier, gender-flipped Rosie Project," but in the afterward, Hoang explains that she had it in mind to write a gender-flipped Pretty Woman before autism was part of the story, and also how she only realized that she was autistic as an adult after the idea that her daughter was autistic was raised. She writes about how naturally Stella's "voice" came to her, and it shows. The heart of this story is that, although our protagonists have some things they need to work through, neither of them needs to be "fixed." It's a story that we've seen before, but it's an own-voices version of it, which it feels good to see. It's authentic and sometimes moving and sometimes funny.
Overall: A