According to Colin Singleton, there are two types of people: those who leave and those who are left. He, without a doubt, belongs to the second. His latest ex, Katherine XIX, is not a queen, but the nineteenth Katherine who has broken his heart.
To escape from his lovesickness, and in order to find a theorem that explains his Katherine curse, Colin embarks with his friend Hassan on an adventure that will take him to Gutshot, a small town in Tennessee, and to the suspicion that in life intelligence is not always the best travel companion.
Review
We begin the story with our protagonist, Collin, who introduces them to us as a child prodigy in mathematics, he loves to study reading and anagrams, shortly after we meet and his best Muslim friend, Hassan, a boy who is the opposite of him, does not like him. he likes the idea of studying at university, he loves to joke around and go out.
They give us a brief introduction about the romantic partners that Collin has had throughout his life, the characteristic that stands out and they all have in common, is their name, Katherine and that all of them have been the ones who have been in charge of ending the relationship. .
Collin sad about his breakup with his last girlfriend decides to go on a trip with Hassan, they both end up in a remote and small town in Tennessee where they go to a museum and there they meet a girl named Lindsey who is in charge of the tours.
We are shown that the protagonist is working on a theorem which will help determine who would leave whom in the relationship, but he is not convinced that it will work and his spirits drop even more.
Pages later, the friends meet the mother of the museum guide, Hollis, a kind lady who is excited to learn that they do not belong to the town, offers them a good sum of money in exchange for interviewing all the residents of the small town to find out. what experiences and opinions they have of the factory and that she owns, they both accept the proposal and stay at the house of Hollis and her daughter Lindsey.
They spend several days interviewing the locals of the town, especially the elderly since most of them worked in said factory, they think that Hollis is a good lady and a benefactor of those who need financial help.
Collin, still frustrated because he does not finish solving the theorem, decides that he is going to burn his notebook since he does not make sense of it, Lindsey dissuades him from doing it and gives him variables, Collin had no idea how his third relationship had ended so he decides call Katherine III and discovers that he was the one who ended the relationship, here he realizes that his theorem works. In the end Lindsey and Collin end up in a relationship.
In my opinion the book lacks a plot, almost the entire story is about Collin talking about his theorem and the subplot that would be Hollis's is just filler, it doesn't serve at all or reinforces the main plot, it's boring and has no nothing that makes it interesting or even little things that make it easy to read, the jokes are totally forced and the characters are very flat and without a story, it is too predictable, the only detail of the book that makes it funny is that the protagonist has only had girlfriends with the same name until he meets Lindsey.
