The Bride Test

May 15, 2019 |  No Comments

The Bride Test

by Helen Hoang

Date Published: May 7, 2019
Published By: Berkley
Page Count: 296


Publisher’s Description:

Khai Diep has no feelings. 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. And love. He thinks he’s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.

As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. 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. Seducing Khai, however, doesn’t go as planned. Esme’s lessons in love seem to be working…but only on herself. She’s hopelessly smitten with a man who’s convinced he can never return her affection.

With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. And there’s more than one way to love.


My Star Rating:

5 of 5 stars

My Review:

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang was just as awesome as The Kiss Quotient. It was fantastic.

What I loved about this book were the highly relatable and quirky characters. Khai is autistic, very routine and almost mechanical but very highly intelligent. Esme is a Vietnamese single mother who happens to be in the right place at the right time to be offered the opportunity to come to America for an arranged marriage to Khai by his mother, and she proves over and over again how good-hearted and steadfast to her morals she is. She knows her priorities and she’s determined to stick to them, no matter what tries to come between them.

One line that stood out for me in the book was this one:
“Everyone deserved to be loved and be loved back. Everyone. Even her.”

She knew her worth, even if she was an immigrant who could barely speak the language and didn’t work a classy accounting job. She had a backbone, and I think it sent an important message to women reading this book.

Khai’s transition from the beginning of the story to the end was very endearing as well. He starts off the book learning that he doesn’t feel emotions like other people do, and he accepts this so matter-of-factly that he doesn’t question it and internalizes it as just one more thing that makes him different. Talk about a tough nut to crack!!

The chemistry between these two was simply fantastic. You can’t help but root for them from the get-go.

This book, the diversity, the smooth writing and expert storytelling, was a joy to read, and I cannot wait to see what Hoang comes out with next. She will definitely be a one-click author for me from here on out.

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