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The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

I enjoyed this book immensely and I was sure I would give it five stars - right until the ending, which was, I'm sorry to say, quite horrible. It was like one of those crazy, silly comedies and I hated it, so finally I gave this book only four stars. The story was simple and cute: Esme, a very poor girl from Vietnam, goes to the USA to meet and marry Khai. Khai is autistic and it's his mother who chose Esme as his future wife. He's not very happy about it at first, but soon he discovers that maybe it's not such a bad idea. I really liked Khai, he was a sweetheart. He always tried to make people happy and he was so  clumsy with people and kept saying and doing the wrong things. And the first sex scene was hilarious. I didn't like Esme. She was dishonest, she didn't tell neither Khai nor his mother about her daughter, which was a huge lie. She kept hiding her thoughts from Khai, although both he and his mother asked her not to do this. She kept taking...

29 - a book published this year

This week it's a book published this year and it's a very easy challenge for me, as I just bought a book I'm dying to read! It's: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang Last year I read this author's first book, The Kiss Quotient, and I simply fell in love with it, so I couldn't wait for the book number two. It's finally here, it's beautiful and I'm very excited!