The Heart Principle

надо как-то запомнить, что мне максимально неблизки героини хелен хоанг и их проблемы, и перестать уже не про них читать. потому что бесит - очередная женщина на аутическом спектре всю книгу переживает, что расстраивает родителей, а попутно встречает идеального мужчину необыкновенной красоты без мгс, который кладет себя к её ногам, занимается с ней феерическим сексом и полностью обслуживает её в быту, когда у нее депрессивный эпизод. ну да, ну да...read more

helen hoang plays with my feelings like whack a mole

This is one of those books where I just read it at the right time, and maybe if I reflect later or if I had read it at some other point it would be closer to a 4. IMO the writing is a bit juvenile at times or a little too simplistic for the content that it was discussing. That being said, this book just made me feel incredibly seen, and I had not read the other books in this series beforehand or knew much about the premise so I had no idea the ma...read more

It was a great book, but it wasn't my favorite. I didn't really connect with anna and Quan, I don't really know why. I did like that the book was written from alternating perspectives, unlike the previous books. I didn't really like the last chapters of the book, they were too short. I did love the plot and idea behind it. That it can be difficult for adults to be diagnosed with autism.

I REALLY loved this book. There were trigger moments for me. Anna’s struggle w being a caretaker was hard for me. I was my Grandpa’s caretaker for 10 years. His death wasn’t kind and in fact it was ugly. It’s been 5 yrs since he died & I’m still grieving. I really feel seen with Anna’s character with the struggles of being a caretaker for your family. It’s really horrific and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do that again. I wanted to read th...read more