Zenn Diagram by Wendy Brant

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Synopsis:

The more I touch someone, the more I can see and understand, and the more I think I can help. But that’s my mistake. I can’t help. You can’t fix people like you can solve a math problem.

Math genius. Freak of nature. Loner.

Eva Walker has literally one friend—if you don’t count her quadruplet three-year-old-siblings—and it’s not even because she’s a math nerd. No, Eva is a loner out of necessity, because everyone and everything around her is an emotional minefield. All she has to do is touch someone, or their shirt, or their cell phone, and she can read all their secrets, their insecurities, their fears.

Sure, Eva’s “gift” comes in handy when she’s tutoring math and she can learn where people are struggling just by touching their calculators. For the most part, though, it’s safer to keep her hands to herself. Until she meets six-foot-three, cute-without-trying Zenn Bennett, who makes that nearly impossible.

Zenn’s jacket gives Eva such a dark and violent vision that you’d think not touching him would be easy. But sometimes you have to take a risk…

^{*I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*}

I enjoyed the unique point of view that the character of Eva was able to provide to the story. She was a Math genius which means that everything that she talks about always comes back to that subject matter. Math is black and white whereas human interaction is more difficult and filled with subtle nuances that were hard for Eva to understand. I thought that her gift was interesting although I feel that the author could have taken it further somehow. We meet her when she has all but given up touching other people so there are not many instances when her gift is explored in the book. 
The story was a bit lackluster for me. I guess I wanted something more from the book...more drama surrounding Zenn's secret or a more in depth look at how each of them have been affected by their pasts. I saw the secret that Zenn had coming from miles away. I'm not sure if this was intentional on the author's part or not but I would have liked it to be more shocking considering the both of the characters reactions in the story. Everything seems to blow over fairly quickly (within 30 pages) with everything being accepted and hardly any hardship whatsoever. 
It seemed as if the author focused quite a bit on Eva's gift until around the halfway point of the book and then focused more on the secret than on her gift. I'm not sure if the book would have been better if the author would have chosen to keep the focus on Eva's gift throughout the book or not but it made the book seem a bit divided when I read it.