I loved how both Esme and Khai almost jumped out of the pages and become corporeal in front of my eyes.
Autistic male character, inmigrant female character, arranged marriage (but not really). Helen Hoang (Goodreads Author) Kelly Dvila 's review. With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, 2) by. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. Hoang says that she wanted to subvert the harmful tropes surrounding autism by writing an autistic. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can’t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. A sequel titled The Bride Test about Esme, a hotel maid who gets offered to accompany Khai, the autistic cousin of Michael from the first book who never had a girlfriend before to weddings, was published by Berkley in May 2019. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. His family knows better-that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions-like grief.
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