Esme must respect his boundaries, just as falling for her is a learning experience for him. Khai is not a reincarnation of Stella from The Kiss Quotient but is very much his own person, and ASD affects him in unique ways. On the surface, Hoang has returned once again to sexual and romantic relationships where one character is autistic. Quân is also a real source of hilarity in this book the dynamic between him and Khai makes for some very entertaining parts. His struggles and passion for his few interests are so genuine. Khai is geeky and obsessive, but as we would expect from an ownvoices author, it does not come across in a faux-quirky way. Khai and Esme are fully-fleshed out and adorable characters. When Cô Nga offers to pay for her visa and trip to California in exchange for her trying to seduce Khai, she takes the opportunity. She's mixed race, and has long wanted to go to America to find her father. After getting pregnant young, she now desperately tries to support her daughter in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City. His overbearing but lovable mother decides to take action and find him a wife from Việt Nam. He is Vietnamese-American, autistic, and believes himself to be incapable of the emotions that matter.

The Bride Test is about Khai, Michael's cousin in The Kiss Quotient. Five stars for a cute smutty romance? Really? But these books are very special to me and I think, deep down, they are actually a lot more than cute smutty romances. And I gave a lot of thought to my rating. I am going to share this again closer to publication, but after my experience with The Kiss Quotient and how it quite literally changed my life, I just couldn't wait to read this. So he could read a novel about alien demon things. He was ignoring everyone, including her, at this expensive wedding. With Esme’s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he’s been wrong all along. 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. 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. 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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