The Quick Cut: A professional violinist finds herself unable to play and with her life in chaos when she meets a guy who makes her feel understood. A Real Review: Being a female on the Autism Spectrum is (to understate the point) complicated. You spend so much of your life trying to be the person that people expect that sometimes you lose sight of your true self. Do you continue to be the version people want? Or the version that you really are? This is the debate for Anna. Anna should have felt on top of the world with a Youtube video giving her viral status as a violinist. However, all she feels is penetrating fear at every single error she makes. Suddenly, she seems to be incapable of playing through one song and questioning her entire life. She secretly sees a therapist to try to solve her issues when her boyfriend Julien asks for an open relationship, only furthering the spiral. It's in this suddenly open relationship that she meets Quan: a guy who is a CEO for a fashion business and the opposite of what she has with Julien. Will she stick with the expected life that everyone has come to know? Or will she forge her own path? This book may be a romance book, but to me it feels like so much more than that. The path that Anna takes is so much more than one of meeting a guy. Anna goes through a serious struggle of her lifestyle burning her out to the point that she just cannot manage it anymore. Being an Autistic female who was diagnosed as an adult, I relate so much to the path she goes through. She not only comes to terms with the diagnosis she is given, but she also discovers that maybe the thing that's wrong isn't her. It's the way she's been living her life and all she wants to do is be her true self. Quan isn't the definition of a perfect guy either. Yes, he gets Anna and takes the time to truly understand her needs. He listens to her and pays attention to all of the physical cues that everyone else in her life misses. However, he has his own struggles with the business he's a part of and where he belongs in the world. Together, these two make a great example of what a good working relationship looks like. I wish I had a relationship like these two! An adult romance that speaks to the heart of anyone who hasn't felt heard before. My rating: 5 out of 5