Khai fighting his feelings for her was such a cool thing to read about because he truly believed he has no feelings. Esme’s energy and desire to please Khai was refreshingly adorable. Khai can’t say no to his mother, so when she tells him he will have a roommate for the summer, the young man who doesn’t even date can’t refuse her. Desperately wanting a better life for her family, Esme left her child with her parents and went to California for the summer. When Khai’s mom happened upon her, she knew she found the perfect girl for him. Esme lived in a tiny one-room shack in Vietnam, sleeping on the floor with her child and her parents and cleaning hotel bathrooms to support them. Khai had resigned himself to being alone, and he was fine about it until his mother traveled to Vietnam to find him a wife. Real loneliness would stick with you all the time. It wasn’t loneliness if it could be eradicated with work or a Netflix marathon or a good book. “Lonely was for people who had feelings, which he didn’t. Khai’s emotions are expressed differently than the average person and when he didn’t cry at something everyone else did, he assumed he was completely incapable of love and pushed everyone away. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang was one of my favorite books of 2018 and I couldn’t wait to read The Bride Test, featuring Khai, the young autistic accountant. *If you like shorter reviews, skip down to The Down & Dirty*
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