Helen Hoang: Originally, The Heart Principle was supposed to be a gender-swapped Sabrina. Goodreads: Where did you get the inspiration for The Heart Principle? Goodreads contributor Arriel Vinson chatted with Hoang about external validation, the importance of family, and how romance is made to handle every topic. The Heart Principle explores what it means to take on new responsibilities and say no to old ones-and how to fight for yourself and what you love.

Will she and Quan still have a chance at love, or will they have to let it go? Then family tragedy strikes, and Anna unexpectedly finds herself taking on a caregiving role. After a few one-night stands with her new hookup, Quan, they both realize something more is in the air.

And when her longtime boyfriend suggests that they open their relationship before getting married-just in case-she decides that a string of one-night stands is exactly what she needs. Violinist Anna Sun is tired of trying to please everyone, and exhausted from her career that boomed after a viral YouTube video. Anna and Quan have to fight for their chance at love, but to do that, they also have to fight for themselves.Helen Hoang, the bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient series, explores burnout, love, and what happens to a budding romance when family responsibility arises in The Heart Principle, her newest novel. However, when tragedy strikes Anna’s family she takes on a role that she is ill-suited for, until the burden of expectations threatens to destroy her. Their first attempt at a one-night stand fails, as does their second, and their third, because being with Quan is more than sex-he accepts Anna on an unconditional level that she herself has just started to understand. That’s where tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep comes in.

The more unacceptable the men, the better.

Translation: She’s going to embark on a string of one-night stands. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment.

The heart principle by helen hoang