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A review by courtneydoss
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
5.0
Helen Hoang writes compulsively readable, lovely romances. That was proven in The Kiss Quotient and has been reaffirmed by The Bride Test. The two books are pretty similar in their style, focusing in rich, Vietnamese, and autistic characters. There is sweet dramatic irony, misunderstandings and tons of angst, punctuated by sexy sex scenes and that sappy sweet love we all come to the romance section for. Why mess with a good thing? Helen Hoang knocked it out of the park with her first novel, so she might as well keep it going with this one.
The Bride Test is the story of autistic Khai and Vietnamese immigrant Esme. After a traumatic event in the past, Khai is convinced he can't love. Esme needs a green card to help bring her family into a better life, and after she is approached by Khai's mother for an arranged marriage, she knows that she can't pass up this opportunity. Predictably, there are some road blocks along the way, but Khai and Esme have crazy chemistry. It is just a sugary sweet novel that does exactly what it sets out to do; makes the reader fall in love with the characters.
I would recommend this book to anybody that enjoys romance and needs a break from the incessant white bread characters that fill the genre.
The Bride Test is the story of autistic Khai and Vietnamese immigrant Esme. After a traumatic event in the past, Khai is convinced he can't love. Esme needs a green card to help bring her family into a better life, and after she is approached by Khai's mother for an arranged marriage, she knows that she can't pass up this opportunity. Predictably, there are some road blocks along the way, but Khai and Esme have crazy chemistry. It is just a sugary sweet novel that does exactly what it sets out to do; makes the reader fall in love with the characters.
I would recommend this book to anybody that enjoys romance and needs a break from the incessant white bread characters that fill the genre.