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A review by purple_reads
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
5.0
This might just be my favourite book I’ve read this year!
I loved both of the mc’s so much! I enjoyed reading about them and I wish there was more content! I NEED MORE ESME AND KHAI. THE FANART IS NOT ENOUGH.
I love autistic representation in romance books. Furthermore, I also enjoyed reading about a Vietnamese immigrant finding her way in a foreign country.
The reason I’m only giving this 4.25 stars, but rounding up to 5 stars because I loved it, is because I think a few things were downplayed or unsolved. For example, there are moments when Esme talks about the best days of her life and the best feelings she’s ever had, but it was implied they involved spending time with Khai and being in America; her daughter not mentioned, even though she states one of the reasons she went to America was for her daughter. Plus we don’t see her daughter much, she pops up at the end mainly but even then she feels like an afterthought. Additionally, Esme’s insecure about her status in life and whether Khai would accept her for who she is but I don’t think this is verbally addressed by the two of them; if Khai knows he doesn’t seem to care or acknowledge it and by the end of the book Esme has just come to terms with it, deciding she will rise and not let money and status define her. But there wasn’t a conversation between the two of them and I think there should’ve been because it was something Esme was extremely insecure about.
Furthermore, Esme annoyed me slightly when she was saying she would persevere on her own but then letting Khai in again and again. I think she clings to hope too much, and I’m not going to fault her when hope is one of the only things she had.
Stars ~ 4.25
I loved both of the mc’s so much! I enjoyed reading about them and I wish there was more content! I NEED MORE ESME AND KHAI. THE FANART IS NOT ENOUGH.
I love autistic representation in romance books. Furthermore, I also enjoyed reading about a Vietnamese immigrant finding her way in a foreign country.
The reason I’m only giving this 4.25 stars, but rounding up to 5 stars because I loved it, is because I think a few things were downplayed or unsolved. For example, there are moments when Esme talks about the best days of her life and the best feelings she’s ever had, but it was implied they involved spending time with Khai and being in America; her daughter not mentioned, even though she states one of the reasons she went to America was for her daughter. Plus we don’t see her daughter much, she pops up at the end mainly but even then she feels like an afterthought. Additionally, Esme’s insecure about her status in life and whether Khai would accept her for who she is but I don’t think this is verbally addressed by the two of them; if Khai knows he doesn’t seem to care or acknowledge it and by the end of the book Esme has just come to terms with it, deciding she will rise and not let money and status define her. But there wasn’t a conversation between the two of them and I think there should’ve been because it was something Esme was extremely insecure about.
Furthermore, Esme annoyed me slightly when she was saying she would persevere on her own but then letting Khai in again and again. I think she clings to hope too much, and I’m not going to fault her when hope is one of the only things she had.
Stars ~ 4.25