Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

3.5 stars, rounded up to 4. I think I admired the book a little more than I actually enjoyed it. I appreciated the fact that Six de los Reyes doesn't dumb down her heroine, Kaya, but it's hard to feel connected to her intellectual discourse on science and relationships, and you really have to read carefully between the lines to find her emotional vulnerabilities. Still it was very rewarding to watch her slowly come out of the lab and both make friends and find love. The book was very funny and the ending swoon-worthy, but at times I couldn't understand how the hero had as much patience as he did to wait for Kaya to come to her senses. Looks like the author is planning on sequels for two of the secondary characters; I would put them on the “to be considered” rather than the “auto buy” category.